Michelle Carter and the texting suicide case

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She tried to stop her boyfriend from committing suicide. Then she egged him on ... And was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. This is the story of the texting suicide case.

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00:00Oh

00:09Oh

00:21Conrad's dead who's gone?

00:30This court

00:33Having reviewed the evidence and applied the law thereto now finds you guilty

00:52I saw him text her all the time, but I didn't think that they had a relationship like that

01:00a

01:10Lot of people tell me that I have a lot going for me. I have to be happy. I have to be happy

01:18Well, no, you don't have to be happy

01:21She

01:29Was struggling with her own mental health issues and recently sought care for her eating disorder at one of the area's top psychiatric hospitals

01:50I

01:52I

02:20Do have a lot going for me like

02:22Captain I

02:24Just got a job from the Boston Duck Tours to captain their boat. Like that's a huge accomplishment

02:53You

02:58Authorities are stunned to find that in the last week of his life

03:01Michelle asks Conrad when he's going to kill himself more than 40 times

03:22When Miss Carter realizes that mr. Roy has exited the truck

03:28She instructs him to get back into the truck

03:34Which she has reason to know is or is becoming a toxic environment

03:41inconsistent with human life

03:53Conrad Roy's aunt claims Carter later texted her

04:01Two and a half months after Conrad died detectives go to Michelle's high school. They want to talk to her

04:12She was 17 at the time of his death, but is being tried as an adult

04:22The

04:27Reality is Michelle Carter is the first person ever to have been convicted in Massachusetts or anyway anywhere as far as we know

04:34For having using words alone

04:36Convinced someone else to commit suicide

04:38She

04:51Did not issue a simple

04:54additional instruction

04:56Get out of the truck. Michelle Carter exploited my son's weaknesses and used him as a pawn in her own well-being

05:06She has not shown any remorse

05:08I

05:20Again I would say that she was a model inmate for the entire time that she was here

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