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A woman who encouraged her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself in dozens of text messages and told him to “get back in” a truck filled with toxic gas was sentenced Thursday to 15 months in jail for involuntary manslaughter_ --- Jul 27, 2023 10:23 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [Woman Convicted in Texting Suicide Case Released From Jail](/video/V8T9mlgG/) ### Woman Convicted in Texting Suicide Case Released From Jail [Woman in Texting Suicide Case Begins Jail Sentence](/video/3LZc0oH7/) ### Woman in Texting Suicide Case Begins Jail Sentence [Woman Who Urged Her Boyfriend to Kill Himself Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter](/video/dQor5Aj3/) ### Woman Who Urged Her Boyfriend to Kill Himself Found Guilty of Involuntary Manslaughter --- ## Transcript Miss Carter, please stand. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Miss Carter, of a guilty finding having entered on the indictment charging you with the involuntary manslaughter of Conrad Roy III, now sentences you to two and a half years in the Bristol County House of Correction. 15 months of said sentence shall be deemed a committed sentence and the balance thereof shall be suspended until August 1st of 2022. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] You will be on probation, administrative until you are released from incarceration Supervised thereafter, and the date of probation commences today. While you are on probation, there will be the usual conditions of probation which include And you will obey all court orders and all local, state and federal laws. You will report to your probation officer as that individual directs. You'll allow the probation officer to visit in your home or school with our without notice. You'll notify your probation officer within 48 hours if you change. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Your residence, school, or employment. You will report to your probation officer within 48 hours after you are released from incarceration. You will not leave Massachusetts unless you get permission of your probation officer and sign a travel permit. You are required by virtue of your conviction to submit a DNA sample, and that will be done through the probation department, you will sign all releases as necessary for probation to verify your compliance with its terms, and you will pay all court- ordered fines Costs and assessments. Those are the general terms, there are in addition, specific terms. You are to have no contact with any member of the Roy family, excepting only that as may be necessary in conjunction with any civil litigation. Including but not limited to the matter of state of Conrad H. Roy III versus Michelle Carter. Document 17- 0846. You will have no contact direct or indirect, with any off of the civilian witnesses who testified at this trial excepting only Doctor. Bragan these shall include but not limited to, Ms. Samantha Boardman. Ms. Alexandria Eveyln. Ms. Ally Ethea. Ms. Olivia Mosogo, pardon me, and Thomas Gamel. Upon your release from incarceration you shall present yourself within 48 hours to the Bristol County Juvenile Court Probation Department, Taunton Division. And thereafter she'll follow all regulations as indicated by that probation department as to reporting requirements. When you report to probation, you will arrange with probation to schedule a mental health evaluation which will be done by our juvenile court clinic. Said evaluation shall be for the purpose of addressing areas of need as to any mental health issues, and to make recommendations for the treatment thereof. You will be required, as a condition of your probation, to cooperate with that evaluation, and to follow those recommendations. A copy of the evaluation shall be provided to the probation department. But shall not be filed with the clerk's office. You shall also sign releases of information providing for any service provider from whom you are receiving services related to the mental health treatment to probation, allowing probation to receive information as to your attendance, the purpose and goals of your counseling, a general statement as to you cooperation with that service And progress towards the stated goal. So mental health services shall continue for as long as deemed necessary while you're on probation by the clinician or individual providing same. This court further orders, and this will be in writing, all of this is in writing, this court further orders that any disclosures made by Ms. Carter During the mental health evaluation or the treatment recommended. May not be used in any substantive way at any subsequent evidentiary hearing that may occur relative to this matter to establish any of the elements of any crime including this indictment in the event that for whatever reason it is retried. [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Based upon this court's analysis that, to some degree, and drawing on Dr. Breggin's testimony that he spoke in terms of behavior of grandiosity, in this court's assessment that for whatever reason [ BLANK_AUDIO ] Part of the motivation for this activity that led to your conviction was a sense of self- aggrandizement. This court now orders that you are not to profit from the events of which you now stand convicted, and the facts surrounding same. For those counsel, I refer you to the case off Commonwealth Vs Power, 4 / 20 / 10, 4 / 10, and the cases that are cited therein from 1995. You, Miss Carter, your assignees and any representatives acting on your authority are prohibited From directly or indirectly engaging in any profit, or benefit generating activity relating to the publication of facts or circumstances pertaining to your involvement in the criminal act which you now stand convicted. This shall include contracting with any person, firm, corporation, partnership, association, Or other legal entity with respect to the commission and or the re- enactment of the crime by a way of a movie, book, magazine article, recording, recording of any type, radio television or internet presentation, interview, live entertainment of any kind Or from the expression of your thoughts, feelings, opinions, or emotions regarding such crime. Any action taken by you, whether by way of execution of a power of attorney, creation of corporate entities or like action to avoid compliance with this condition of probation shall be considered a violation. Of the terms and conditions of your probation. As I noted, your probation shall be administrative until your are released from incarceration and thereafter, shall be supervised. The Probation Supervision fee is waived. A Victim- Witness fee In the amount of $ 45 is imposed and that shall be paid on or before September 11th of 2017. And finally as I noted a moment ago, you will be required and must submit the DNA samples in accordance with [ UNKNOWN ] chapter 22D. That is the sentence of the court. 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