Suicide Text Teen Found Guilty! - Page 2

gabstoomuch · ‎03-16-2010

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.

Mistreatedbycs · ‎03-10-2010

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.

Puzzle Piece · ‎06-29-2010

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 · ‎03-10-2010

What a sociopath.

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HappyDaze · ‎06-13-2012

@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).

KingstonsMom · ‎03-09-2010

@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.......

You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

chickenbutt · ‎03-09-2010

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.

software · ‎06-08-2016

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.'

CareBears · ‎08-30-2015

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!