Woman accused of inciting boyfriend to commit suicide

A young woman accused of encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself, was playing a "sick game", a court has been told.

The hearing in Massachusetts heard that Michelle Carter, who faces a charge of involuntary manslaughter charge, allegedly texting her boyfriend to among other things “just do it” before, he took his own life in 2014. At the time he was 18, and she was 17.


In her opening statement, prosecutor Maryclare Flynn accused Ms Carter of sending “dozens” of text messages and making phone calls too. In them, Ms Carter encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself, even instructing him to get back in the car he had filled with carbon monoxide fumes, the court heard.

Ms Flynn accused Ms Carter, who is now aged 20, of bringing about her boyfriend’s death so she could play the “grieving girlfriend”.

However, Ms Carter’s defence lawyer said her boyfriend, Conrad Roy, was “on this path to take his own life for years,” and that his girlfriend had urged him to get treatment.


Culled from Independent.