Sentenced to 15 months in jail the young woman who encouraged her boyfriend through text messages to commit suicide

Sentenced to 15 months in jail the young woman who encouraged her boyfriend by text messages to commit suicide

The Massachusetts judge forbids you to write a book or participate in films about the case

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New York 4 Aug 2017-09:45 CEST

Michelle Carter hears the verdict. Matt West (AP)/VIDEO: Reuters-quality

A court in Massachusetts has sentenced a young woman to a 15-month prison term who incited her boyfriend to commit suicide three years ago by means of multiple text messages. Michelle Carter, who at the time of the events was 17 years old, had been declared last June guilty of manslaughter and faced a maximum sentence of 20 years.

Judge Lawrence Moniz fixed the sentence of two and a half years in prison, but decided that the young woman should be only 15 months, then then to a regime of probation. At the request of the Carter attorney, the juvenile court magistrate also suspended the sentence until the appeal process was completed.

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The judge's decision also included, among other things, a prohibition for the young woman to benefit in the future of her knowledge of the case, for example with the sale of a book or her participation in a film. The case had aroused a strong interest in the United States and in the legal field, since the defendant was not present at the scene of the crime, the victim acted alone and in addition the state of Massachusetts does not legally penalize the incitement to the suicide.

The victim, Conrad Roy III, 18, died on 12 July 2014 for carbon monoxide poisoning in his vehicle. Roy drove to the parking lot of a supermarket and placed the exit of a water pump that emitted gas into his vehicle, but when he started to find it wrong he came out of it. Carter told you on the phone to come back in, according to the D.A. The young woman had previously sent dozens of text messages to Roy encouraging to execute her plans to commit suicide, though she had initially tried to dissuade him.

The very day of his death, the then minor wrote to him: "You simply have to do it." You said you were going to do it. "I mean, I don't understand why you don't." During the process, the prosecution used correspondence between the two young people to try to prove that Carter's words were reckless and his conduct caused Roy's death.

The defense, meanwhile, always alleged that Carter was not responsible for the death of the young man because he had a history of depression and had tried to kill himself before, while he put on the table the mental health problems of the defendant