US woman faces up to 20 yrs for boyfriend's suicide
3 Aug 2017 11:37 PM IST
A US woman risks being sent to prison for up to 20 years by a Massachusetts judge for encouraging her teenage boyfriend to follow on plans to kill himself while she was still a juvenile.
Michelle Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter by Judge Lawrence Moniz on June 16 in a case considered to break new ground in a state that has no law against encouraging someone to commit suicide.
Her boyfriend, Conrad Roy, 18, was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in his pickup truck in a parking lot in July 2014.
Carter, who was 17 years old at the time of his death, is due to return to a juvenile court in Taunton, south of Boston on Thursday for a sentencing hearing scheduled at 2 pm (1800 GMT).
US media says one of Roy's relatives is seeking the maximum 20 years, but that Carter's father will instead plead for probation.
Carter and Roy exchanged hundreds of text messages in which the young woman repeatedly urged him to follow through on his plan to kill himself, conceal it from his parents and lie to his mother.
Some legal experts had questioned whether Carter's actions were enough to secure a conviction under involuntary manslaughter.
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