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Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« on: October 03, 2010, 08:26:01 AM »
Student commits suicide after secret webcast

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A freshman at Rutgers University killed himself after his roommate allegedly posted on the Internet secretly taped footage of him having a sexual encounter in his dorm room, authorities and the victim's family said Wednesday.

Through an attorney, the family of Tyler Clementi issued a statement confirming that the 18-year-old had ended his life last week by jumping off the George Washington Bridge and said it is "cooperating fully with the ongoing criminal investigations."


Tyler Clementi is believed to have jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge.

Dharun Ravi, Mr. Clementi's roommate at Rutgers, and another student, Molly Wei, both 18 years old, are charged with invasion of privacy for using a webcam to transmit the secretly record footage on Sept. 19, Middlesex County officials said.

Mr. Ravi was charged with two additional counts of invasion of privacy for attempting to use the camera to view and transmit another encounter involving the same student two days later, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan said in a statement.

Lawyers for Mr. Ravi and Ms. Wei did not return phone calls seeking comment and the two students did not respond to email messages sent on Wednesday. Ms. Wei was released on her own recognizance after she turned herself into Rutgers Police on Monday. Mr. Ravi was released on $25,000 bail on Tuesday after surrendering to police.

Both are charged with crimes that carry prison sentences of up to five years if they are convicted, prosecutors said. Under New Jersey law, it is a fourth-degree crime to collect or view images of someone nude or engaged in sexual contact without their consent, prosecutors said. It is a third-degree crime to distribute those images, prosecutors said.



On Sept. 22, a wallet containing Mr. Clementi's driver's license and Rutgers University identification card was found on the George Washington Bridge after two witnesses reporting seeing a young man jump from the span at about 9 p.m., a law-enforcement official with knowledge of the case said. No body has yet been recovered, the official said.

Officials with the Middlesex County prosecutor's office declined to comment on Mr. Clementi's death because he hasn't been publicly identified as the victim of the illegal taping at Rutgers University.

In its statement, Mr. Clementi's family described the graduate of Ridgewood High School in Ridgewood, N.J., as "a fine young man and a distinguished musician." The statement, released by attorney Paul Mainardi, said the family "is heartbroken beyond words."

Mr. Clementi played the violin, the Associated Press reported. "He was a terrific musician, and a very promising, hardworking young man," Ed Schmiedecke, a former music director at Ridgewood High School, told the AP.


"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family right now," said the superintendent of the Ridgewood Public Schools, Dr. Daniel Fishbein, who sent out notices late last week informing students that Mr. Clementi was missing and offering grief counseling.

Mr. Ravi allegedly used the online program iChat to post the video on the Internet, and also broadcast a message about the posting on his Twitter feed, which has since been taken down.

Citing privacy concerns, a spokeswoman for Rutgers University would not comment on the cases involving Mr. Ravi and Ms. Wei, but said in a statement that the school "takes these matters seriously."

A New Jersey gay-rights group, Garden State Equality, said it considers Mr. Clementi's death a hate crime.

"We are heartbroken over the tragic loss of a young man who, by all accounts, was brilliant, talented and kind," the group's chairman, Steven Goldstein, said in a statement. "And we are sickened that anyone in our society, such as the students allegedly responsible for making the surreptitious video, might consider destroying others' lives as a sport."

They should get a lot of time in jail. Hopefully when this Dharun Ravi is in jail, he will drop the soap, and be violated.

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2010, 08:51:57 PM »
The shit people pull. Just awful.
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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2010, 09:42:52 PM »
woah no body has been found?! some people think its a hate crime?! This is getting bonkers.

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2010, 07:51:53 AM »
I always think of hate crimes, as jealous crimes.

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2010, 08:39:05 AM »
well from what the article suggested, the victim was a homosexual who was probably guilt ridden from embarassment.

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2010, 08:43:50 AM »
which is weird because it's 2010, not 1990

homosexuality is more open than ever... he should of just beat the shit out of them

poor kid

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2010, 08:58:42 AM »
seemed like a prank gone awry! I can see the humor of secretly filming a buddy gettin it on, incase he has some funny thing he does, or just weeps as he does the hanky panky, but then BOOM ITS ANOTHER GUY! And its all being streamed and too late to stop, both parties caught off guard.

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2010, 09:49:51 AM »
that's the problem with today, everyone wants to make a video and pop it on youtube

where has the intelligence gone!

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2010, 03:20:45 PM »
o.o that is so horrible... why is there no happy news any more :<
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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2010, 05:16:00 PM »
it has been unhappy news since i can remember watching news

nobody cares about good news, people want to see bad news to make their lives seem more happy

the media hasn't changed

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2010, 08:52:47 PM »
C: oh no i mean, when i was a kid i used to watch this nick hosted news channel for kids that had real news but it was always good news C:
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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2010, 11:34:33 PM »
only good news it seems now is techy news

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #12 on: October 05, 2010, 01:55:56 AM »
C: I'll make some good news.. lessee har

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #13 on: October 05, 2010, 07:11:27 AM »
i remember buying the Ren & Stimpy cassette when i was really young just to get that song

WOW! that dates me

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #14 on: October 05, 2010, 08:03:08 AM »
tkoold dates you as well! YOU TWO-TIMER!!!

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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #15 on: October 05, 2010, 08:08:26 AM »
tkoold dates nobody!!!!! muhahahahahhaahhaha

lol, we are off topic big time

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« Reply #16 on: October 05, 2010, 11:10:10 PM »
C: yeah we are <3
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Re: Student commits suicide after secret webcast
« Reply #17 on: October 06, 2010, 06:19:10 AM »
the news is still buzzing about this, and using it to fight for gay rights

i didn't know in most states you can loose your job for being gay, thats just wrong

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« Reply #18 on: October 06, 2010, 05:41:37 PM »
oh yesh :C being gay isnt AS accepted as people think it is just yet
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