Buckwheat
9 years ago
We should all encourage Michelle Carter to follow in her "friend's footsteps" after she convinces him to commit suicide. Read all about this morally bankrupt individual here.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/texting-suicide-trial-sentencing-conrad-roy-family-michelle-carter/ 
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DrafterX
9 years ago
Ultimate bitch... 😟
gummy jones
9 years ago
had to google michele carter
then i recognized some of the pics

hopefully she repents
wont bring him back
but might save her
tailgater
9 years ago
This is such a sad story all around.

MACS
9 years ago
Ooof. This is a difficult one for me. She sounds heartless and morally bankrupt for sure, but is that criminal?

I believe we are morally obligated to provide aid to injured people, sure... but legally? They were teens, too. Which one of us as a teen didn't triple dog dare a friend to do something stupid?

I'm declaring a teedub moment. I'm on the fence, here.
MACS
9 years ago
Having given this some additional thought... she's culpable. I dare say the vast majority of our laws are based on our societal morality, and she not only did not prevent his death, but encouraged it.
DrafterX
9 years ago
well, daring someone to poke a buffalo with a stick is a little different than telling someone to sit in their truck and die... 😟
jjanecka
9 years ago
Cmon guys lighten up, she just told him he should kill himself, it's not like she thought he'd up and go do it.

Can't help it the kid was a snowflake.
DrafterX
9 years ago
'Get back in the truck..!!'

:-k
jjanecka
9 years ago
Look! It was normal in the 80's!!!

DrafterX
9 years ago
If Obama had a son he'd look like Sams... 😟
ZRX1200
9 years ago
She's got some eyebrows.
illinichaser
9 years ago
I see where most are coming from here. What she did is morally reprehensible. She's not a nice person. But at the same time, I question if we know where the line is. She didn't pin him into the truck. She just encouraged a decision he had already made.

If an overweight teenager ends up committing suicide and his death note references his inability to be called "fatty", are the bully's to blame? Possibly. But are the legally culpable?

What about the weirdo who breaks and goes and gets a gun? are the students he shoots culpable for their own injuries?

I could go on and on. I think she will have a price to pay in the long run and one that is much different than any court can impose. But, I'm not sure I agree that a law has been broken by her words.
DrafterX
9 years ago
not sure what she was charged with..... but conspiracy is a crime you can get thrown in da pokey for without actually committing the crime... 😟
jjanecka
9 years ago
In any case if all she did was encourage the kid's death verbally there shouldn't be a case; However, if the kid was actively in the process of killing himself then she probably should have at least done something. I don't know the case nor do I really care. I just don't think telling someone to kill themselves warrants a jail sentence.
DrafterX
9 years ago
Carter wrote in one message: "I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you're ready, you just need to do it!"

"You can't think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don't get why you aren't," Carter wrote on the day of the suicide.

In another text, Carter wrote "you’re finally going to be happy in heaven. No more pain. It’s okay to be scared and it’s normal. I mean, you’re about to die."

Carter also had texted Roy to "get back in" his truck as it filled with carbon monoxide during the suicide attempt.

"This court finds that instructing Mr. Roy to 'get back in' the truck constitutes wanton and reckless conduct by Ms. Carter," the judge said.

He said Carter had a duty to call someone for help when she knew Roy was taking his own life. Yet she did not call the police or Roy's family, the judge said.

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



:-k
Gene363
9 years ago

Cmon guys lighten up, she just told him he should kill himself, it's not like she thought he'd up and go do it.

Can't help it the kid was a snowflake.

jjanecka wrote:



Not "just" she told him to get back into his truck when the exhaust was making him sick.
jjanecka
9 years ago
Ah yeah, she probably should go to jail then for not trying to save him. Thanks for clearing that up.
Gene363
DrafterX
9 years ago
well, after she serves her time and stays straight for awhile maybe VT will want to give her somethin too... 😟
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