A summer string of text messages that a judge said led to one teenager's death has now led to another's jail sentence.
Judge Lawrence Moniz of Massachusetts on Thursday sentenced 20-year-old Michelle Carter to a 2-1/2-year jail sentence — only 15 months of which is to be actually spent behind bars — for repeatedly telling a young man, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself. Moniz found Carter guilty of involuntary manslaughter earlier in the year.
Carter and Roy had met in 2014 while the two were 17 and taking family vacations in Florida. In the months after, they started sharing stories of profound emotional instability through Facebook and text messages.
Here's how a relationship that ended with a young man's death and a young woman's jail sentence unfolded:
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On June 16, Judge Lawrence Moniz found Michelle Carter guilty of involuntary manslaughter for sending texts that encouraged a young man she had called her boyfriend to kill himself.
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In the summer of 2014, Conrad Roy III started sending Carter texts in which he shared thoughts about killing himself. Carter first listened to Roy and offered support, but she later started sending messages that said Roy's family would "get over it."
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"Everyone will be sad for a while but they will get over it and move on," Carter texted when Roy expressed worries about what his death would do to his family.
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