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Suicide Text Teen Found Guilty!

KingstonsMom — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:40:58 GMT

For those who have been following the trial of this tragic event, like I have:

Michelle Carter has been found guilty of manslaughter in the 2014 death of her boyfriend after she sent him a barrage of text messages encouraging him to kill himself.

The 20-year-old broke down as the Massachusetts judge ruled on Friday in Bristol Juvenile Court that she caused the death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III.

Carter was 17 when she sent Roy dozens of messages urging him to take his own life. Roy was found dead after filling his truck with carbon monoxide in a parking lot in Fairhaven, Massachusetts on July 12, 2014.

Judge Lawrence Moniz called Carter's actions 'reckless' as he read out the reasoning behind his verdict on Friday.

He described how Roy had climbed out of the truck as it was filling with toxic gas and told Carter he was scared, but she urged him to get back in.

'She did not issue a simple additional instruction: Get out of the truck,' the judge said.

'When Ms Carter realizes Mr Roy had exited the truck, she instructs him to get back in the truck, which she has reason to know is becoming a toxic environment.'

The judge said Carter's instructions constituted 'wanton and reckless conduct

He said Carter had a duty to call someone for help when she knew Roy was attempting suicide. Yet she did not call the police or Roy's family.

Sobs broke out in the courtroom when the judge announced the guilty verdict.

The judge ruled that Carter can remain free on bail until her sentencing on August 3. She could face up to 20 years in prison.

Carter has been prevented from texting and using Facebook or Snapchat ahead of her sentencing. She was also ordered not to have any contact with Roy's family.

The sensational trial raised questions of whether words can kill and offered a window into teen depression and suicide through text messages and Facebook communications.

Prosecutors had argued during the high-profile trial that a then teenage Carter pressured Roy to take his own life through a torrent of text messages.

'I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you're ready, you just need to do it. You can't keep living this way,' Carter wrote in one message.

'Everyone will be sad for a while, but they will get over it and move on. They won't be in depression I won't let that happen.'

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Mj12 — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:42:48 GMT

Good. What a monster she is.

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Katcat1 — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:46:06 GMT

Good. What a horrible thing to do to a friend. She will have plenty of time to think in prison where she rots!

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BornToShop — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:49:39 GMT

I also followed this tragic story. As far as I am concerned, 20 years is not long enough.

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MalteseMomma — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:51:24 GMT

I have been watching this trial and I hope she gets the full 20 yrs. IMO she might as well have killed him herself!

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haddon9 — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 17:57:46 GMT

She really makes me sick to my stomach! I don't understand how she could encourage him to do that. I don't get it.

I'm glad she was found guilty!

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HappyDaze — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:04:09 GMT

Finally some justice!

On a side note, the jury in the Bill Cosby trial scares me with the questions they are asking. yikes

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Mistreatedbycs — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:05:09 GMT

Let me crawl from under my mushroom, I didn't know anything about this until I read the story and researched all the FB pages that were set up. Another tragedy.

He came from a broken home, dad is with someone and mom is with someone else, I wonder if his depression had anything to do with his parents. His pain is gone and justice has been served.

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Happiness Is Inside JOB — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:05:24 GMT

I am so thankful that I am not growing up in today's times. This is tragic for the parents and both families.

Why would she not care enough to say, "I don't mean what I said, I'm joking", or "Get out the car?."

I saw a similar case on a news show where a girl was camping and her body was found in the river and her "friends" kept right on going and stayed on the trip.

I know peer pressure is real, and what is scary is the "POWER" some of these friends have on their peers. I have to be strong enough in myself that IF someone tells me to kill myself that I don't do it.

Where is the morals, values and concious. SO many people have no concious at all and that is dangerous.

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gabstoomuch — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:08:27 GMT

I cannot say "happy" she was found guilty, because being happy for someone to go to prison feels wrong. I am glad she is being held accountable for her actions.

No conscience. Hard to understand those sorts of people. She has no remorse at all.

I was wondering why she decided not to have a jury? Why would someone not want a jury? To have your case be decided by a judge seems more risky than a panel of 12?

This will set precedence for all those people who hide behind screens and say terrible things to people who are in distress. That is good.

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Mistreatedbycs — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:15:49 GMT

You listen to your attorneys and they know better. I don't believe she believed that she would of been found guilty, I saw some of the pics and her face, her eyes, they appear to be evil.

Awful.

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Puzzle Piece — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:18:30 GMT

I think this case will set a sort of precedence for the future. The female does have to face consequences and they will probably be severe.

I don't think she is remorseful either.

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MickD — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:39:53 GMT

What a sociopath.

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HappyDaze — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:41:15 GMT

@KingstonsMom The text where she later told a friend that is was her fault because she could have helped him and instead she told him to get back in the car and do it I think was the straw that broke the camel's back. She KNEW that her words and actions were wrong. She KNEW that. She is disgusting. A sociopath (or perhaps psychopath).

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KingstonsMom — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:46:52 GMT

@gabstoomuch wrote:
I cannot say "happy" she was found guilty, because being happy for someone to go to prison feels wrong. I am glad she is being held accountable for her actions.

No conscience. Hard to understand those sorts of people. She has no remorse at all.

I was wondering why she decided not to have a jury? Why would someone not want a jury? To have your case be decided by a judge seems more risky than a panel of 12?

This will set precedence for all those people who hide behind screens and say terrible things to people who are in distress. That is good.

@gabstoomuch

Because odds are that almost any jury of 12 people would consist of parents, grandparents, aunts/uncles, have siblings, etc., who would not be sympathetic to her for encouraging his suicide, thinking of their own family member possibly being in the same situation..

Human nature.......

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chickenbutt — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:55:55 GMT

HappyDaze wrote:
@IG The text where she later told a friend that is was her fault because she could have helped him and instead she told him to get back in the car and do it I think was the straw that broke the camel's back. She KNEW that her words and actions were wrong. She KNEW that. She is disgusting. A sociopath (or perhaps psychopath).

Yeah, that seems to be the set of circumstances that makes it particularly heinous. Glad for the verdict and I really hope they hit her hard with the sentencing.

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software — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:58:46 GMT

She still doesn't think she's done anything wrong.

That alone should earn her another 20 years!

It's time for people to take responsibility for their WORDS.

@KingstonsMom wrote:
For those who have been following the trial of this tragic event, like I have:

Michelle Carter has been found guilty of manslaughter in the 2014 death of her boyfriend after she sent him a barrage of text messages encouraging him to kill himself.

The 20-year-old broke down as the Massachusetts judge ruled on Friday in Bristol Juvenile Court that she caused the death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III.

Carter was 17 when she sent Roy dozens of messages urging him to take his own life. Roy was found dead after filling his truck with carbon monoxide in a parking lot in Fairhaven, Massachusetts on July 12, 2014.

Judge Lawrence Moniz called Carter's actions 'reckless' as he read out the reasoning behind his verdict on Friday.

He described how Roy had climbed out of the truck as it was filling with toxic gas and told Carter he was scared, but she urged him to get back in.

'She did not issue a simple additional instruction: Get out of the truck,' the judge said.

'When Ms Carter realizes Mr Roy had exited the truck, she instructs him to get back in the truck, which she has reason to know is becoming a toxic environment.'

The judge said Carter's instructions constituted 'wanton and reckless conduct

He said Carter had a duty to call someone for help when she knew Roy was attempting suicide. Yet she did not call the police or Roy's family.

Sobs broke out in the courtroom when the judge announced the guilty verdict.

The judge ruled that Carter can remain free on bail until her sentencing on August 3. She could face up to 20 years in prison.

Carter has been prevented from texting and using Facebook or Snapchat ahead of her sentencing. She was also ordered not to have any contact with Roy's family.

The sensational trial raised questions of whether words can kill and offered a window into teen depression and suicide through text messages and Facebook communications.

Prosecutors had argued during the high-profile trial that a then teenage Carter pressured Roy to take his own life through a torrent of text messages.

'I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you're ready, you just need to do it. You can't keep living this way,' Carter wrote in one message.

'Everyone will be sad for a while, but they will get over it and move on. They won't be in depression I won't let that happen.'

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CareBears — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:04:32 GMT

I have never made it a secret that I was bullied as a child and as adult, but this takes the cake, this has disgusted me to a level I have never felt before, to actually encourage someone to commit suicide, ice must run though this monster's veins, I hope the judge gives her the longest jail time he/she can sentence her to, maybe her sentence will set the precedence for other people who bully to think before they act!

I pray that her victim is at peace cradled in the Lord's arms, and I pray for his family who lost everything that tragic day, my heart aches for them!

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faeriemoon — Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:19:24 GMT

I still can't wrap my head around the fact that someone would actually do that...