Student: Tyler Clementi (pictured) is thought to have committed suicide after discovering his sexual encounter had been streamed online
Posted on 09/29/2010 7:23:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono
PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) -- A college student jumped to his death off a bridge a day after authorities say two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcast it over the Internet.
Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi jumped from the George Washington Bridge last week, said his family's attorney, Paul Mainardi. Police recovered a man's body Wednesday afternoon in the Hudson River just north of the bridge, and authorities were trying to determine if it was Clementi's.
ABC News and The Star-Ledger of Newark reported that Clementi left on his Facebook page on Sept. 22 a note that read: "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry."
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Student: Tyler Clementi (pictured) is thought to have committed suicide after discovering his sexual encounter had been streamed online
I sense a wrongful death claim coming on.
Neither.
What’s going on at Rutgers? A guy and a coed were caught taping another girl having sex. They were arrested the other day.
He must have had some other issues going on having a sex tape today seems to be a badge of honor and I would imagine if it was a gay one you would get triple brownie points.
This new “Hope and Change” banana republic we now live in is really, really weird. These “college” kids are the same people that Barry is out there trying to get fired up for the “election”.
This is a very sad story. My condolences to his grieving family.
Anyone who has an unkind comment should keep it to himself.
i agree with you- most likely Daddy and Mommy re-assured him it was OK to do that because they just love him sooooooooo much they would never tell him that it’s wrong
What kind of sick person would put a film online of someone having sex?
(Oh. Right. Maybe they were journalism majors getting ready to join the lamestream media.)
Bingo! Most people today tape themselves and can’t wait to post the clip on the net. I think it’s a “change” thing going on with the kids.
Sad that some people would have plenty to say about the victim but not a word about the animals who illegally taped him and humiliated him.
dirtybee comments: "As ArmandDangerous pointed out, a body was found in the Harlem River. Red star is where the kid jumped and blue star is around the area where the body was found." Could it be possible for a body to travel that way?
What is the matter with you people? This man was violated! It doea not matter who he was with. I hope these jerks get their asses sued off. How dare they invade someones privacy like that.
He didn’t tape himself. His roommates were spying on him and taped him. Re read the article.
Sure it's not the same case?
The story was national news before the suicide, and the gender of the victim was not reported initially — just the identities of the perps, the possibility of getting five years, etc.
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