Student Committed Suicide After Classmates Allegedly Recorded Him In Gay Sexual Encounter?

[marmar]

A Rutgers University freshman is believed to have taken his own life last week shortly after he was broadcast engaging in sexual activity with another man.

According to WPIX, officials believe the student, who the New York Daily News has identified as 18-year-old Tyler Clementi, jumped from the George Washington Bridge on Sept. 23. His car was found nearby with his computer and cellphone inside.

WPIX reports that the Clementi's alleged roommate, Dharun Ravi, and another first-year student, Molly Wei, were charged with invasion of privacy for secretly leaving a camera in the his bedroom on Sept. 19 and posting footage of an ensuing sexual encounter on the internet.

In New Jersey, it is a fourth-degree crime to collect images showing sexual content or nudity without the subject's consent, and it is a third-degree crime to transmit the relevant content. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/09/29/dharun-revi-molly-wei-charged_n_743539.html

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. What is wrong with people?! That poor young man!

[lame54]

2. The real crime is that he was conditioned to be ashamed

[Mimosa]

8. Nobody's privacy should be breached

I could see where even a straight woman might be driven to despair if a video of her having sex was put online. Not everybody has the psychic wherewithall to withstand extreme humiliation and embarrassment.

Anybody who invades anybody's personal privacy in such a fashion should reap the consequences. What pigs.

[lame54]

10. of course...

so many sad things about this

[Nuclear Unicorn]

19. You and Mimosa are both right

His privacy was just that, his.

But even then he had absolutely no reason to feel ashamed. His life was just as beautful and meaningful as anyone else's.

So sad.

[AngryAmish]

17. Snooki, for example...

[Hannah Bell]

3. hope the family presses charges.

[Dreamer Tatum]

5. They don't need to. Read the story. nt

[Hannah Bell]

6. ah, i see.

[DURHAM D]

13. Parents of victim should bring a wrongful death action against

those two. It will be more painful than a few weeks of community service.

[FedUpWithIt All]

4. Damn damn damn!!

I cannot stand this. I cannot stand the suffering that goes on.

x(

[virgogal]

7. Jesus---the poor kid.

[Bobbieo]

9. Hopefully. he is still alive. I will believe it until his body is found.

[DURHAM D]

11. Ravi and Wei will soon be in the leadership of College Republicans -

if they are not already.

[marmar]

12. You're probably right.

nt

[grantcart]

14. well they will be in the leadership of Cell mate Republicans as they serve their time

[itsrobert]

15. 5 year student?

Time to grow up and get a job.

[Divine Discontent]

16. first-year

[itsrobert]

18. Thanks, misread.

I swear I have something wrong with my reading.

[Divine Discontent]

20. it's okay. I do it at times. Our eyes can be really screw as we age (I'm nearly 40), sometimes the

lines go at an angle as I'm reading. But, I did catch first, instead of fifth, it could simply be that your brain just assumed fifth quickly, and skipped over the rest of the letter at lightning speed because you're so damned smart! ;) Also, you would think they'd type freshman college student, instead of first-year.

[RagAss]

21. This is so fucked up !

[dsc]

22. what a nightmare

but only slightly different than what Laura Ingram did when she went to Dartmouth. She and her editor (DeSuza) would run fake ads seeking relationships with gay men, and then out them in the Dartmouth review when gay men responded. Of course both of them are perfectly acceptable in our discource. A guy I dated in college forced me out of the closet back in the day and I nearly ended it all. It was only when I realized I couldn't prevent my parents finding out either way that I decided to tell everyone and take the plunge.