On Thursday, Sept. 23, Tyler Clementi (pictured above), a freshman at Rutgers University, committed suicide by jumping off the George Washington bridge; after his roommate uploaded a sex tape of him making out with another male to the internet.
Fellow freshmen students Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro and Molly Wei, 18, of Princeton have been charged with invasion of privacy for allegedly placing a camera in 18-year-old Tyler Clementi’s room.
Ravi and Wei were charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for using a camera to view and transmit a live image of the teen during the sexual encounter on Sept. 19.
Ravi was additionally charged with two more counts of invasion of privacy for trying to use the hidden camera to view the same student during another sexual encounter just three days later on Sept. 21.
Days before the suicide, Ravi tweeted: “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into Molly’s room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude.
Ravi was released on $25,000 bail. He has since deleted his Twitter page. If convicted, both students face up to 5 years in prison.
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Now thats just sad!!!!!!!
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that’s so sad. i wish people would stop and think of the aftermath and how it will affect others before committing suicide. my heart goes out to his family.
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That’s flucked up. RIP dude.
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THIS SOUNDS LIKE THE NEXT EPISODE OF 90210…Is anyone else watching that besides me?
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Wow. smh
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Very sad…
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RIP this is absolutely heartbreaking!
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Hello All. God give me the strength to ALWAYS believe in You and that ain’t nothing worth taking one’s life. RIP young man, RIP.
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SAD!!!
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Death is hard enough, suicide is terrible.
Some people are just LOSERS – referring to the two who thought it would be funny to upload this tape 😦
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# RIP my brother… Jus sad all the around 😦
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I dont understand how some folks get joy off of hurting people 😦
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Wow, you have to be really distraught to jump off the George Washington Bridge. RIP.
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Awwww this is horrible. I wish he wouldn’t have taken his life though. They should feel like shyt right now.
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RIP to the young dude and *PRAYERS* go out to all affected. However, why is a tape of two people kissing being labeled a sex tape???
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This is really a bad situation for everyone involved. How could you do that to someone? How could you just put someone’s business out there like that? He probably hadn’t even told his parents. This is really sad!
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This is tragic. Kids getting their arms broken, committing suicide over bullying and ish like this. Out of control. I hope these two idiots are expelled and that they both get the maximum sentence.
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This is so sad, RIP my dude.
Suicide is such a bad thing no matter how u put it, but I can really see in this case why he did it.
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so he’d rather KILL himself, than 2allow people 2know he gay? wow.
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WOW, SO SAD.
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People don’t stop to think sometimes. Especially teenagers. They just think everything is fun and games and up and do stupid shyt. I just said in my earlier post that our brains aren’t thought to be fully developed until the age of 25 and that the reasoning part of the brain is the very LAST to develop. Hence, these dumb asses and their reasoning skills.
Very sad story.
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Sad story.
Hopefully they get jail time.
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I feel this is why gay marriage needs to be passed. People should not feel like they can’t express themselves without being ridiculed. Being in the closet is hard enough. The people who video tapped it was probably mad they couldn’t get a piece. Wouldn’t be surprised if they are in the closet themselves.
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THIS IS TOO SAD- THIS IS THE VERY REASON WHY I TELL MY DAUGHETR THAT WHAT IS DONE IN THE DARK CAN AND WILL COME TO LIGHT, SO DONT DO ANYTHING, ESPECIALLY WITH PEOPLE THAT YOU WOULDNT WANT OTHERS TO KNOW-
THE ROOMATE REALLY NEEDS TO PAY -A LIFE WAS LOST OVER A POSSIBLE PRACTICAL JOKE- SMH
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I wish this could be taken back it’s really tragic that his young life has ended due to stupid prank. They should’ve been more mature tho…
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So they was filmin two niggas fuggin and puttin it on the internet? They sound gay they dayum selves to me.
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I pray for all those that have to endure this everyday.
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This is a cruel cruel world that we are living in…
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Only 5 yrs for causing someones’s death. They should get more time along w/sensativity training. This young mans parents should also sue them in civil court. Hope these kids paychecks are garnished until they retire.
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This just hurts my heart to read… I can’t understand how someone can be that cruel to do that to someone else. There’s no reason for this kind of sick ass hatred and ignorance.
Just sad.
*Prayers to this boys family**
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If they have any type of conscience or a heart I don’t need to pray they get what they deserve, because living with knowing they caused someone that much pain to take their own life is punishment enough.
Unbelieveable people.
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Hi fam! So sad that I hardly have time to login anymore…
My prayers go out to this family, what a horrible way to loose a family member.
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I hate that suicide is becoming more of the norm, especially with young people, as if they dont have so much more life to live! I know yall have heard this a 1000 times but I will say it again. Suicide is a permanant solution to a temporary problem. I wish he would not have taken this road, instead he could have sued the living daylights out of his jerk of a roomate for invasion of privacy…Just sad!
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wow! i work at the university – they are doing a good job keeping this under wraps…i didn’t even know! RIP young man…
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wow, very sad. humuliate the gays, that’s what it’s all about, right? why else are we a society that gets off on ‘outting’ someone. This is childs play gone way too far, and for the genius to post that he put the camera up? way out. wow.
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They videotaped this boy during intimate moments between him and his partner, and released it…all w/ out his knowledge. IMO…thats a serious invasion of privacy. I don’t care if it was him and gf, or anything…to just blatantly invade someone privacy like that and expose them like that…is just wrong.
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Alot of krazy shyt is happeening on these campuses. Presidents and deans just turn their backs from it. Maybe someone needs to made an example of…..
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These were 18 yr old freshmen…getting their first taste of freedom and didnt know how to act. Yes, it was wrong, very wrong, but giving these ppl a 5 year sentence is just making an example out of them. JMO…not trying to offend.
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The word “suicide” is not found in the Bible. It comes from the Latin word “sui” meaning “of oneself,” and -cida, meaning “to kill”.
Suicide = To Kill Oneself.
What does the Bible say about Killing….
” Thou shalt not Kill “
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well thank you Rezzie witcha “holier than thou” azz.
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Um Rezzie, Can you direct me to this in the bible? Furthermore….It’s only a sin if you know it’s a sin. If he didn’t have knowledge that it was a sin it is not counted against him!
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@Adam, AMEN!
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These two need to be expelled from school. Clearly they aren’t mature enough for that environment.
If they can go after them in criminal court, find some statute and twist it so it fits them, I hope they find it! Throw the book at them because this was so unnecessary!
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Damn!!! what they did was whacked! who would wanna even see 2 dudes having sex, kissing, gropping, making out or whatever. hell dey the real freaks. unbelieveable @ the extremes of some people just to get their jollies @ someone elses expense and humiliation. so fucked up.
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Such a Sad story!!
Some people just evil to want to hurt somebody like that.
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Praying for all the people who witnessed him jumping, his family as well as his friends. 😦
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Everything is all fun and games, shyts and giggles until someone gets hurt. If everyone took a moment and pondered over their thoughts, words and actions BEFORE they did it or even contemplated how their actions would ultimately affect someone; maybe just maybe a lot of incidents we see on the television wouldn’t occur.
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IGONRANCE IS KILLING THESE KIDS!
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I don’t want to seem insensitive either, but c’mon, he looks gay, that was no secret.
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This is going to sound a bit insensitive but umm….
I was always taught not to do anything that you would be embarrassed about if it came out later. The roommates were dead ass wrong for invading his privacy like that! HOWEVER- if he was gay, he knew the stigmatism and issues he would have to deal with in his lifetime and in my opinion- he took the easy way out.
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I hope his soul rests in peace, but I can’t agree with somebody being that weak-minded. If you’re born that way, (just like we’re born Black), you are the underdog- people are sometimes going to take shots at you- accept it, tell them to kiss your ass, and keep it moving.
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That’s what I’m sayin @Omar, I ain’t fittin’ to go jump off any bridge just cause some ignorant, immature brats think a stupid prank is funny. He just let the roommates win!
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This is so sad
His azzhole roommate and friend should get the MAX time.
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This is a cruel cruel world that we are living in…smh 😦
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