{"id":5232,"date":"2017-01-22T07:50:02","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/?p=5232"},"modified":"2017-01-22T07:50:02","modified_gmt":"2017-01-22T12:50:02","slug":"girl-convinced-teen-liked-commit-suicide-just-learned-bad-news-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldjusticenews.com\/news\/2017\/01\/22\/girl-convinced-teen-liked-commit-suicide-just-learned-bad-news-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl Who Convinced Teen Who Liked Her To Commit Suicide, Just Learned Some Bad News In Court"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 6, the 20-year-old Massachusetts woman Michelle Carter who encouraged her 17-year-old boyfriend to commit suicide over text message finally goes to court on manslaughter charges.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n

Because she sent the confused and depressed teen text messages egging him on to finish himself off, she will stand before a jury later this winter for her role in his premature death.<\/a><\/p>\n

If Michelle Carter hadn\u2019t encouraged Conrad Roy III to commit suicide, he probably wouldn\u2019t have done it on that day. Now a young man is lost forever.<\/p>\n

Roy was 18-years-old when he died of carbon monoxide poisoning in 2014.<\/p>\n

While meeting in court, Carter\u2019s defense attorney, Joseph Cataldo, told Taunton Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz that he isn\u2019t prepare to defend his client. He asked the judge to push back the court day to April or May.<\/p>\n

Judge Moniz was quick to reply.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, that\u2019s not happening. That\u2019s not happening,\u201d Moniz said in a hearing on Monday. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to put it out that far.\u201d<\/p>\n

The pretrial hearing was on Monday. During that session the judge granted Carter\u2019s defense team funds to hire an expert to examine an antidepressant both Carter and Roy were taking at the time of his suicide.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, the judge had rejected this request. But on Monday, Carter\u2019s attorney explained that Celexa could be important to the defense case since it has been shown to increase people\u2019s suicidal thoughts.<\/p>\n

On Monday, Moniz had to reverse his decision when the attorney present more facts about the drug.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cI think it\u2019s relevant, but it will be up to the judge to determine whether a jury should know about that,\u201d Cataldo told the Herald.<\/div>\n

Besides the drug side effects, Cataldo wanted to examine evidence of domestic abuse in Roy\u2019s family.<\/p>\n

In the 2014 incident, before Roy was found dead in his pickup truck in Fairhaven, Massachusetts, Carter, who was 17-years-old at the time, had sent Roy dozens of text messages encouraging him to kill himself.<\/p>\n

Among her text messages, Carter told the troubled teen to go through with it. She wanted him to finish his life so he would stop complaining about his depression to her.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have everything you need. There is no way you can fail. Tonight is the night. It\u2019s now or never.\u201d<\/h2>\n

\u201cSo what are you gonna do then? Keep being all talk and no action and everyday go thru saying how badly you wanna kill yourself? Or are you gonna try,\u201d she texted him days before his death.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re finally going to be happy in heaven. No more pain. No more bad thoughts and worries. You\u2019ll be free.\u201d<\/p>\n

Roy doubted whether or not he should do it, \u201cI do want to but I\u2019m like freaking for my family I guess. I don\u2019t know.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carter replied with encouragement: \u201cConrad, I told you I\u2019ll take care of them\u2026they will be okay and accept it. People who commit suicide don\u2019t think this much. They just could do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u00a0Source\u00a0 awm.com<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

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