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Massachusetts' highest court has ruled that a teenage girl must stand trial on a manslaughter charge for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself by sending him dozens of text messages and telling him to "get back in" a truck filled with carbon monoxide fumes.
The Supreme Judicial Court ruled Friday, July 1st that a grand jury had probable cause to indict Michelle Carter in the 2014 death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III.
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"From at least July 6th through July 12th, 2014, Carter assisted Conrad's suicide by counseling him to overcome his doubts, devising a plan to run a combustion engine within his truck in order to poison him with carbon monoxide, and by directing him to go back in his truck after he exited it, when he became frightened the plan was working."
Prosecutors maintain that Carter sent messages to Roy that said: "You just have to do it," "Tonight is the night," and "It's painless and quick."
According to the indictment, when Roy expressed hesitancy at going through with the suicide, she sent him more messages expressing her frustration: "You always say you're gonna do it, but you never do. I just want to make sure tonight is the real thing."
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The indictment shows Carter told her friend:
"I told him to get back in because I knew he would do it all over again the next day, and I couldn't have him live that way the way he was living anymore. I couldn't do it. I wouldn't let him. Therapy didn't help him and I wanted him to go to McLeans with me when I went but he would go in the other department for his issues, but he didn't want to go because he said nothing they would do or say would help him or change the way he feels. So I like, started giving up because nothing I did was helping and but I should have tried harder. Like, I should have did more. It's all my fault because I could have stopped him but I (expletive) didn't. All I had to say was I love you and don't do this one more time, and he'd still be here."
http://fox6now.com/2016/07/04/massachusetts-highest-court-rules-girl-accused-of-texting-boyfriend-urging-suicide-must-stand-trial/