{"id":126302,"date":"2017-08-03T14:21:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T19:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126302"},"modified":"2017-08-03T14:21:26","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T19:21:26","slug":"carter-sentenced-to-15-months-encouraging-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126302","title":{"rendered":"Carter sentenced to 15 months, encouraging suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-126303\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CarterMichelle-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CarterMichelle-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CarterMichelle-768x404.jpg 768w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CarterMichelle-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CarterMichelle-333x175.jpg 333w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/CarterMichelle.jpg 1199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) \u2014 A Massachusetts woman who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages urging him to kill himself has been sentenced to 15 months in jail on a manslaughter charge.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in June by a judge who said she caused the death of 18-year-old Conrad Roy III when she told him to &#8220;get back in&#8221; his truck as it was filling with carbon monoxide.<\/p>\n<p>Juvenile Court Judge Lawrence Moniz also sentenced Carter on Thursday to five years of probation.<\/p>\n<p>Carter was 17 when Roy died in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>During Carter&#8217;s trial, her lawyer argued that Roy was determined to kill himself and nothing Carter did could change that.<\/p>\n<p>Carter faced a maximum sentence of 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) \u2014 A Massachusetts woman who sent her boyfriend dozens of text messages urging him to kill himself has been sentenced to 15 months in jail on a manslaughter charge. Michelle Carter was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in June by a judge who said she caused the death [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126305,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126302\/revisions\/126305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}