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http://www.examiner.com/article/texts-encouraged-suicide-teen-texted-encouraged-her-boyfriend-to-take-his-lifeTexts encouraged suicide: Teen texted, encouraged her boyfriend to take his life
Writes People.com on Feb. 27: An 18-year-old girl has been charged with manslaughter for urging her friend to commit suicide. Conrad Roy III, 18, committed suicide last summer in a Kmart parking lot in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. But now investigators say his friend Michelle Carter, also 18, may have encouraged him to do it.
Not only did she allegedly encourage the boy to commit suicide, she then spearheaded a fundraising campaign in his honor. Three days after Roy died, Carter expressed her sorrow and utter dismay, tweeting out: I will never understand why this had to happen. She then organized a softball event, raising over $2,000, the proceeds of which went to a suicide prevention program.
According to her softball coach, she's a good kid though....
http://plainville.wickedlocal.com/article/20150227/NEWS/150226694
People are treating her like shes an uncaring high school kid and shes not that, he said. Id love to know what the context was. This is emotional, its not logical, its not rational.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Even my most disliked ex, had he sent me that message I would've called 911 and kept him outside, on the line, and taking. So disgusting.
trumad
(41,692 posts)I'm going to kill myself.
Awful that this happened but may be the used the phrase many times...cry wolf type of thing. ..and the girl did not know that he literally was doing it.
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LisaL This message was self-deleted by its author.
who knows if this guy cried wolf many times before... She probably thought he was faking it.
I hear you though...she should have done more.
Shouldn't it be done less?
Police say she was encouraging him to kill himself.
"Instead of attempting to assist him or notify his family or school officials, Ms. Carter is alleged to have strongly influenced his decision to take his own life, encouraged him to commit suicide and guided him in his engagement of activities which led to his death," Gregg Miliote, director of communications for the Bristol County District Attorney's Office, said in a statement."
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/01/us/suicide-text-case/
KMOD
(7,906 posts)I realize we don't know the context of the texts yet, and manslaughter may seem like an overreach, but it sounds like this young girl has some issues of her own.
Carter, now a senior at King Philip High School, had a full understanding of the suicide plan, and in the days leading up to Roys death not only encouraged Conrad to take his own life, she questioned him repeatedly as to when and why he hadnt done it yet, the report said.
Police said she likely spoke on the phone with Roy until he died, yet she continued to text a friend as if nothing happened.
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But police said her behavior seemed calculated to engender sympathy and drama, even as Roy was reaching out to her. As she texted friends saying Roy was missing, he texted her I love you btw.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/02/27/plainville-teen-charged-with-manslaughter-friend-suicide/WM5yHKA5IpobG2WXEWHLFM/story.html
HereSince1628
(36,063 posts)looks like that'll have to be fixed in the beta release...
davidn3600
(6,342 posts)And played as if she had no role in the suicide at all.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)with a guy (because I wanted to hang out with my friends, not be with him LOL) and then I went to his prom with him. I broke it off after both proms because obviously I wasn't into him. He threatened to kill himself because I broke up with him.
I was livid - he was trying to emotionally blackmail me. I told him so, and said "if you are going to commit suicide over me, it's your fault, not mine."
He didn't kill himself. This girl could have been responding to something like that.