Tyler Clementi~driven to suicide

[shitstorm]

It should never be illegal to be an asshole but putting a camera on someone without their knowledge, in a private space, should be a serious offense. I would not doubt that it's a misdemeanor. Obviously, doing that, in addition to violation of privacy, can be used to embarrass and intimidate as well for blackmail. When I mentioned other cases of spying on people, I vaguely recall something like a landlord who video taped female tenants. It was not illegal! That was a very long time ago and it brought up the issue of video technology and how that needed to be addressed. It doesn't look it has been been. The better to address it is with no nonsense laws on privacy. Technology will change, so we can't always be enacting new laws to keep up. Protecting privacy in private spaces could cover any kind of spying. There was also a recent case where a school gave kids laptops and the school was spying on the kids through the webcams. Again, nobody prosecuted.

It's shocking how many young people, gay and straight, have been driven to take their own lives. Someone has to be in severe pain to commit suicide. It's very damn hard being a kid sometimes :(

[Sterling]

I'm stunned at the apparent lack of outrage with the sentence. I guess Tyler couldn't have been Obama's son [or any other representative's] so no statement to the press.

[shitstorm]

Well, this is really strange. I was looking up an interview with Ravi. The date of this of this is Mar 22, 2012 3:55pm and it talks about Ravi being convicted a week before!

Former Rutgers student Dharun Ravi, convicted last week of a hate crime for spying on his gay roommate’s date...

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/20...m-to-jump/

WTF?

[Lady Cop]

ABC often gets stories wrong . i never rely on them. i find reporting errors by them all the time. he wasn't convicted for a hate crime.

[Jimbone]

He was convicted then. Today was his sentencing for that conviction.

[Lady Cop]

(CNN) -- Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers University student who was found guilty of spying on and intimidating his gay roommate, heads to jail Thursday to begin a 30-day term.

A day earlier, Ravi apologized for spying on his roommate, Tyler Clementi, with a webcam.

"I accept responsibility for and regret my thoughtless, insensitive, immature, stupid and childish choices that I made on September 19, 2010, and September 21, 2010," Ravi said in a statement Wednesday.

Clementi, 18, killed himself by jumping off New York's George Washington Bridge into the Hudson River after learning Ravi had secretly recorded his intimate encounter with another man.

Ravi's court appearance Wednesday formalized his decision to head to jail, waiving his right not to serve jail time twice for the same crime, as prosecutors appeal his sentence.

New Jersey prosecutors argue that Ravi's crimes warranted more than a 30-day jail term and called Superior Judge Glenn Berman's sentence "insufficient under the sentencing laws of this state."

Berman defended the jail sentence Wednesday, CNN affiliate WABC reported.

"I can't find it in me to remand him to state prison that house people convicted of offenses such as murder, armed robbery and rape," Berman said. "I don't believe that fits this case. I believe that he has to be punished and he will be."

[Lady Cop]

ravi got out of jail 10 days early today.

he will be on probation for 3 years.

he will not be deported.

arrogant little prick.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/natio...8808.story

[aussiefriend]

I thought he got 10 years jail and then to be deported? Did I hear that wrong? I thought I saw that on one of the US news channels? So he only got a few days?

[koko]

Ugh. Damn, the outcome of this trial bothers me. I hope karma catches up with him quick.