{"id":40648,"date":"2017-06-08T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T07:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=40648"},"modified":"2017-06-08T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T07:37:51","slug":"teen-girl-allegedly-urged-boyfriend-commit-suicide-played-sick-game-prosecutor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=40648","title":{"rendered":"Teen Girl Who Allegedly Urged Boyfriend to Commit Suicide Played a ‘Sick Game,’ Prosecutor Says"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trial of the girl who allegedly urged her boyfriend to go through with committing suicide began Tuesday, with opening statements occurring in juvenile court in Taunton, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n

Michelle Carter, 20, is charged with involuntary manslaughter for sending text messages that allegedly led to the death of Conrad Roy III.<\/p>\n

Carter, who took the stand Monday, waived her right to a jury trial, and Judge Lawrence Moniz will decide her guilt or innocence, <\/span>CBS Boston <\/span>reported.<\/p>\n

Roy\u2019s mom, Lynn Roy, took the stand on Tuesday as the first witness in the trial. She responded to questions about her divorce from Roy\u2019s father, hearing about Carter for the first time, Roy\u2019s previous relationships and his struggles with sleeping and social anxiety, according to <\/span>CBS Boston.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew he was a little depressed but I thought he was doing great,\u201d Lynn said. \u201cI mean, he just graduated from high school, got his captain\u2019s license and I thought everything was moving forward not backward.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Roy, from Fairhaven, Massachusetts, died of carbon monoxide poisoning after he attached a water hose to his exhaust pipe in July 2014. He struggled with <\/span>anxiety and depression <\/span>and previously attempted suicide. He was 18.<\/p>\n

Carter was 17 at the time of Roy\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

During opening statements Tuesday, prosecutors argued that Carter wanted sympathy and attention from other girls at school, yearning to be the \u201cgrieving girlfriend\u201d who couldn\u2019t stop her boyfriend from committing suicide, <\/span>WPRI <\/span>reports.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe defendant needed something to get their attention,\u201d Assistant District Attorney Maryclare Flynn said. \u201cShe used Conrad as a pawn in her sick game of life and death.\u201d<\/p>\n

Detectives discovered a <\/span>series of text messages <\/span>in the investigation, sent a week before Roy\u2019s death, that were between him and Carter.<\/p>\n

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Among those were texts she sent that stated: \u201cYou always say you\u2019re gonna do it, but you never do. I just want to make sure tonight is the real thing,\u201d \u201cYou just have to do it\u201d and \u201cIt\u2019s painless and quick.\u201d<\/p>\n

Police also found Carter\u2019s written admission to a friend in which she recalled a phone call with Roy after he got out of his truck and told her he was scared and didn\u2019t want to abandon his family.<\/p>\n

\u201cGet back in,\u201d Carter said she told him.<\/p>\n

It was those text messages that the prosecution brought up in court, with Flynn saying Carter pretended she didn\u2019t know the location or manner of Roy\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe never admitted to anyone in the Roy family that she had helped Conrad for weeks to devise a suicide plan, or that she was on the phone with Conrad and knew he committed suicide in the Kmart parking lot,\u201d Flynn said.<\/p>\n

Carter\u2019s attorney Joseph Cataldo argued against those claims, saying Roy\u2019s death was a \u201csad and tragic suicide,\u201d but not a homicide, WPRI reports.<\/p>\n

Cataldo referenced Roy\u2019s previous suicide attempt in 2012 and presented evidence in text messages from 2012 and 2013 that showed Carter attempting to dissuade Roy from committing suicide.<\/p>\n

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