Michelle Carter, woman who encouraged boyfriend to kill himself, released from jail after less than a year behind bars. Carter was sentenced to 15 months in 2017. She was released more than three months early due to good behavior, jail officials say.
A Massachusetts woman who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself was released from jail Thursday, after just under a year behind bars.
Michelle Carter walked out of Bristol County Jail flanked by jail officials, one of whom was holding two clear garbage bags containing her belongings. Carter, dressed in a black turtleneck, light-colored blazer and black pants. She was picked up by her parents and lawyer, who had no comment., who died by suicide in 2014 after filling the inside of his pickup truck with poisonous fumes.
Michelle Carter leaves the Bristol County jail, on Jan. 23, 2020, in Dartmouth, Mass., after serving most of a 15-month manslaughter sentence for urging her suicidal boyfriend to kill himself in 2014.Carter, who was 17 at the time, had repeatedly, through text messages, pushed Roy, 18, to kill himself.
On the day he ultimately took his life, she told him to"get back in" the truck when he expressed to her he was having second thoughts, prosecutors said.for breaking news The case was subject of an HBO documentary,"I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth vs. Michelle Carter."Sign Up
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