HOW COULD MICHELLE CARTER BEHAVE SO VICIOUSLY AND ENCOURAGE MY SON TO END HIS LIFE?

But eventually, Carter’s tone appeared to change.

On July 12, 2014, a day before Roy was found dead, Carter, then 17, wrote: “So I guess you aren’t gonna do it then, all that for nothing. ... I’m just confused like you were so ready and determined.”

“I am gonna eventually,” Roy responded. “I really don’t know what I’m waiting for ... but I have everything lined up.”

“No, you’re not, Conrad. Last night was it. You keep pushing it off and you say you’ll do it but u never do. Its always gonna be that way if u don’t take action,” Carter replied. “You’re just making it harder on yourself by pushing it just have to do it.”

“If u don’t do it now you’re never gonna do it,” she added.

In one message, Carter told him: “You’re finally going to be happy in heaven. No more pain. It’s okay to be scared and it’s normal. I mean, you’re about to die.”

The judge said Roy had followed Carter’s instruction and placed himself in a “toxic environment” in his truck, where he used a gas-powered water pump to commit suicide.

Roy wavered in the final moments and stepped out of the truck — and Carter told him to “Get back in.” The judge said although Carter knew Roy was in trouble, she took no action.

“She admits in a subsequent text that she did nothing — she did not call the police or Mr. Roy’s family,” Moniz said in court. “Finally, she did not issue a simple additional instruction: ‘Get out of the truck.’”

Roy was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning on July 13, 2014, outside Boston.

Defence attorneys portrayed Carter as a teenage girl who was suffering from her own mental health issues when she encouraged Roy to take his own life.

“Ms. Carter will have to live with the consequences of this for the rest of her life,” her attorney, Joseph Cataldo, told the court.

He added that Carter had no criminal history and has expressed remorse and taken responsibly for her actions.

Legal experts have said the decision could have national implications as courts grapple with how to apply long-standing laws as technological changes have taken interactions online. In Carter’s case, the ruling suggested that in effect, she was whispering in Roy’s ear, “kill yourself, kill yourself,” Laurie Levenson, a criminal law professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, said after Carter’s conviction. And it essentially said that those words can lead someone to suicide.

“This is one of the most extreme cases we’ve seen,” Levenson said. She added that the question is: “When does bullying cross over into committing a homicide?”

Carter will not serve time behind bars until she has exhausted her appeals in state court. off, you