Roommate video tapes roomates homosexual encounter, U/Ls to Internet, suicide ensues

[Bateluer]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/30/new.jersey.student.suicide/index.html?hpt=T1

New York (CNN) -- On the evening of September 19, Rutgers University student Dharun Ravi is believed to have sent a message by Twitter about his roommate, Tyler Clementi.

"Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay."

Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro, New Jersey, surreptitiously placed the camera in their dorm room and broadcast video of Clementi's sexual encounter on the internet, the Middlesex County prosecutor's office said. Ravi tried to use the webcam again two days later, on September 21.

"Anyone with iChat, I dare you to video chat me between the hours of 9:30 and 12. Yes it's happening again," Ravi is believed to have tweeted.

The next day, Clementi was dead

This really makes me ill. I hope Ravi gets to spend many a sleepless night in prison, preferably next to Bubba.

 

[classy]

There is a thread already on this in OT

 

[Darwin333]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/30/new.jersey.student.suicide/index.html?hpt=T1



This really makes me ill. I hope Ravi gets to spend many a sleepless night in prison, preferably next to Bubba.

That makes you ill but rape makes you happy? Is it just homosexual rape that makes you happy or do you enjoy other "varieties"?

 

[SamurAchzar]

That makes you ill but rape makes you happy? Is it just homosexual rape that makes you happy or do you enjoy other "varieties"?

Don't be a douche. We all know a homosexual rape is the ultimate triumph of a man over another man.

 

[Linflas]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/09/30/new.jersey.student.suicide/index.html?hpt=T1



This really makes me ill. I hope Ravi gets to spend many a sleepless night in prison, preferably next to Bubba.

Sensationalism at its best. Not defending the actions of the guy doing the streaming but this guy had to have had some serious underlying issues to have killed himself, he didn't do it just because a sexual encounter was made public. This seems to be a popular new trend to attempt to blame suicides on the actions of others but it fits right in with the current notion that someone other than the person committing an act must always be responsible for pushing them to commit the act.

 

[GTaudiophile]

I call it a hate crime.

I hope they enjoy their stay in prison!

 

[ayabe]

Invasion of privacy but not a hate crime. If the guy had been caught wacking to animal porn or something and killed himself they wouldn't label it a hate crime. Embarrassment isn't more or less harmful because the victim is in a certain social group.

 

[ModerateRepZero]

Sensationalism at its best. Not defending the actions of the guy doing the streaming but this guy had to have had some serious underlying issues to have killed himself, he didn't do it just because a sexual encounter was made public. This seems to be a popular new trend to attempt to blame suicides on the actions of others but it fits right in with the current notion that someone other than the person committing an act must always be responsible for pushing them to commit the act.

This unfortunately seems to be the case. I would argue that certainly in most cases people act or commit crimes based on their free will, but that certain events/stressors can be a triggering factor that causes someone to "snap". In the case of suicides, I have no problem blaming someone provided that there was constant and extremely damaging harassment (ie Phoebe Prince) and that there was or clearly should have been foreknowledge of someone's (mental) vulnerability.

I'm not sure that either is true in this case =\ Certainly it's tragic, but criminal...?

 

[Siddhartha]

That makes you ill but rape makes you happy? Is it just homosexual rape that makes you happy or do you enjoy other "varieties"?

What does feeling bad about someone committing suicide have to do with rape?