“Get back in.” Those were the three words that prompted a judge to convict Michelle Carter of involuntary manslaughter in 2017 — words she texted to her long-distance boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, in 2014. Roy, 18, who suffered from depression, had filled his pickup truck with carbon monoxide in an attempt to kill himself. And Carter’s message, one of many, was encouraging him to follow through. Which he did.
“The last three years, these kinds of messages are becoming more common,” Barbara Greenberg, PhD, a Connecticut-based adolescent psychologist, tells Yahoo Lifestyle. “It’s a message of hate. ‘You are so useless, go kill yourself.’” “It can get really bad, but you can’t take it seriously. You hear things like ‘Kill yourself’; ‘Go drink bleach’; ‘Your mother should have swallowed you,’” the source told Miner. “I mean, those are normal comments in some games. You would hear that every day.”
Adds Greenberg, “Teens have a lot of trouble with impulse control. So you have social media, you have the elements of anonymity, you have the teen brain, which is not a very well-regulated brain. It’s a whole combination of factors.” Although the professor argues that these are inevitable results of the digital age, she says there remains “an ethical and moral responsibility to be a good person and not to cause harm to others.” She’s hopeful that the Carter case is finally providing a legal consequence for something people should already know is wrong.
How irresponsible for your reporter, Kerry Justich, to write Michelle Carter texted the words 'Get back in' to Conrad Roy III. She did not send a text saying that. The HBO documentary even mentioned that journalists often make that false claim ... and you still did it.
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