DID THE JUDGE GO EASY ON MICHELLE CARTER?

                                                                                                                            

 A 20-year-old Massachusetts woman who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself in 2014, when she was a teenager, was sentenced to serve 15 months in prison after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter by a judge. Michelle Carter, then 17, sent dozens of text messages to 18-year-old Conrad Roy III encouraging to kill himself, insistently saying things like, "You can't think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don't get why you aren't." When Roy got out of a truck that was filling up with poisonous carbon monoxide and told her he was afraid, she texted him to, quote, "get back in." Roy was found dead in the vehicle. Carter's attorney, Joseph Cataldo, had asked that she not be given any jail time, saying she was struggling with bulimia, anorexia and depression during the time she urged Roy to kill himself. But the prosecution charged that Carter, quote, "undertook a deliberate, well-thought-out campaign" to cause Roy's death in order to get attention and sympathy from her friends. Did judge Lawrence Moniz go lightly on Carter who will stay out of prison until all her appeals are exhausted? Seems so to me. I'm not advocating destroying another young life, but judge Moniz had the opportunity to set precedent here and he missed the mark


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