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Michelle Carter listens to defense attorney Joseph
P. Cataldo argue for the involuntary manslaughter
charge against her to be dismissed, citing five
separate arguments at Juvenile Court in New
Bedford, Mass., on Aug. 24. (Peter Pereira/The New
Bedford Standard Times via AP)
Michelle Carter knew that if anyone found her text
messages to her boyfriend Conrad Roy III, she might
go to jail.
“[If the police] read my messages with him I’m done.
His family will hate me and I can go to jail,” Carter
texted a friend after her 18-year-old boyfriend used
a gas-powered water pump to commit suicide in the
parking lot of a K-Mart.
Carter had asked Roy in a text message to delete her
messages before he carried out the suicide last
summer, but investigators found them anyway.
According to prosecutors, Carter pressured her
boyfriend to go through with suicide for almost a
week before he carried out the act. She counseled
him to overcome his fears; researched methods of
committing suicide painlessly; and lied to police, his
family and her friends about his whereabouts during
the act itself and after, prosecutors said.
Carter, who was 17 at the time of Roy’s death, now
faces manslaughter charges in juvenile court in
Massachusetts.
Her attorney argues, however, that the charges
should be dropped because Carter’s messages are
protected by free speech. According to attorney
Joseph P. Cataldo, Carter was “brainwashed” into
supporting Roy’s plan for suicide.
“He ultimately persuaded a young, impressionable
girl,” Caldato told reporters, according to South
Coast Today. “Eventually he gets her to endorse his
plan.”
[‘Get back in': Teen charged with pressuring
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But in an indictment, prosecutors outlined in
nauseating detail the extent of Carter’s alleged role
in helping Roy overcome his doubts about suicide.
For more than a week in July 2014, Carter and Roy
exchanged hundreds of messages in which Carter
insisted that Roy would be better off dead.
“You’re finally going to be happy in heaven. No more
pain,” she told him in one message. “It’s okay to be
scared and it’s normal. I mean, you’re about to die.”
According to prosecutors, the two had struck up a
romantic relationship — mostly online — in 2012. Her
lawyer says they had only met a few times in person
over the course of two years prior to Roy’s death.
Roy had a history of depression and had attempted
suicide in the past, but his family was hopeful that he
would get through it.
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“He seemed to be pulling out of it,” his grandmother
Janice Roy told WBZ.
[How to talk to your teen about depression, suicide]
Text messages recovered by police, however, suggest
that by 2014, Carter had gotten tired of Roy’s idle
talk of suicide and she wanted him to go through with
it — now.
“You always say you’re gonna do it, but you never do,”
Carter complained. “I just want to make sure tonight
is the real thing.”
Another time, she texted: “You can’t keep pushing it
off, though. That’s all you keep doing.”
Carter was insistent, even when Roy steered the
topic to other things:
ROY: How was your day?
CARTER: When are you doing it?
Roy said he was having a good day, but Carter wasn’t
satisfied.
CARTER: Really?
ROY: Yes.
CARTER: That’s great. What did you do?
ROY: Ended up going to work for a little bit and
then just looked stuff up.
CARTER: When are you gonna do it? Stop ignoring
the question
Roy had doubts, and he was scared, according to his
texts. What if it didn’t work and he ended up injured
for the rest of his life? How would his family cope
with the loss?
Carter had answers.
He would be her guardian angel in heaven.
She would comfort his family and they would move on.
If he followed the directions he had found online for
killing himself with carbon monoxide, it would “100
percent work,” she said.
“There isn’t anything anyone can do to save you, not
even yourself,” she told him.
But committing suicide would require tools. Roy
thought about using a tube to channel the exhaust
from his truck’s tailpipe into the vehicle but realized
that the diesel engine emitted lower levels of carbon
monoxide that might make failure more likely.
Michelle Carter and Conrad Roy III. (Courtesy of the
Sun Chronicle)
Carter was confident that it would work and told him
why.
If the truck emitted a specific amount of carbon
monoxide “for five or ten minutes, you will die,” she
told him. “You lose consciousness with no pain. You
just fall asleep and die.”
But Carter didn’t love that idea, either, because she
feared that Roy would make up an “excuse” to explain
why it didn’t work.
“I bet you’re gonna be like ‘oh, it didn’t work because
I didn’t tape the tube right or something like that,'”
she texted him “You always seem to have an excuse.”
When Roy decided to use a generator instead, Carter
was impatient.
“Do you have the generator?” she asked him.
“Not yet LOL,” he replied.
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“WELL WHEN ARE YOU GETTING IT?” she wrote.
Eventually, Roy did find a generator — his father’s —
but it was broken. Carter told him to take it to Sears
for repairs.
And if Roy couldn’t find a way to use carbon monoxide,
Carter suggested alternatives: “I’d try the bag or
hanging,” she told him. “Hanging is painless and take
like a second if you do it right.”
The day of Roy’s death — July 12, 2014 — he and
Carter exchanged texts in the early morning hours.
“You can’t think about it. You just have to do it,”
Carter said, telling him she didn’t understand why he
was hesitating.
“I’m gonna eventually,” he replied. “I really don’t
know what I’m waiting for but I have everything lined
up.”
She suggested that he take medication to fall asleep
and allow the fumes to work.
She worried that he wouldn’t go through with it
because the sun would soon be coming up.
She suggested that he go to an empty parking lot.
They texted throughout the day about the plans,
about Roy’s doubts, and about Carter’s insistence that
“the time is right” and that he was ready.
[Trying to quantify teen suicide]
At the same time, Carter appeared to be preparing
her friends and Roy’s relatives for his eventual
death. Days before his suicide, Carter texted a
friend named Samantha and claimed that Roy was
missing — though she was communicating with him at
exactly the same time about how to fix his father’s
broken generator.
The day before his death, she told her friend: “I’m
thankful that our last words were I love you.”
At some point on the night of July 12, Roy went
through with the suicide, using a gas-powered water
pump. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning inside the
cab of his pickup truck.
While he was in the truck with the pump running, he
was on the phone texting and talking with Carter, she
told her friend.
“Like, honestly I could have stopped it,” Carter
texted Samantha months later. “I was on the phone
with him and he got out of the car” because the
carbon monoxide was working, she said. She added that
she “told him to get back in.”
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Roy’s body was found by police on the morning of July
13.
A judge will now decide whether Carter will face
charges in his death. She will appear in court again on
Oct. 2.
After his death, Carter became a self-proclaimed
advocate for mental health.
She organized a fundraising tournament in Roy’s
memory and posted on Facebook and Twitter about her
attempts to save her boyfriend’s life.
“Even though I could not save my boyfriend’s life, I
want to put myself out here to try to save as many
other lives as possible,” she wrote on Facebook.

Source: www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/31/its-now-or-never-texts-reveal-teens-efforts-to-pressure-boyfriend-into-suicide/?tid=pm_national_pop_b

Good for d young boii, at least 1 ediot less..

Even village pple no fit drill 5yr old warri boii to commit sucide.

nerd

Smh.......

all this "get inside pikin" sef. how die go hungry u?

Exponental:
all this "get inside pikin" sef. how die go hungry u?

I dey tell you.

I trust my Nigerians guys expecially south/west/east na money dey hungry us