Massachusetts teen who pushed boyfriend to commit suicide via texts sentenced to 15 months in prison
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld a previous ruling which found Michelle Carter guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the suicide death of boyfriend Conrad Roy II
The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court upheld the previous conviction of Michelle Carter in the 2014 suicide death of boyfriend Conrad Roy II, ruling that by sending the texts encouraging to take his life, she had committed involuntary manslaughter. She will serve 15 months behind bars.
Roy, a marine salvage captain, was just 18-years-old when he decided to take the drastic step of ending his life on July 13, 2014, by poisoning himself with carbon monoxide fumes in his truck at a Kmart parking lot in Fairhaven. As detectives began investigating the case, they found that Carter, who was 17 and his long-distance girlfriend at the time, had exchanged many text messages, emails, and phone calls with Roy where she pushed him to kill himself.