Clementi was enrolled in the school’s music program and was accomplished violinist.
Paul Mainardi released a statement confirming Clementi’s suicide. “Tyler was a fine young man, and a distinguished musician. The family is heartbroken beyond words. They respectfully request that they be given time to grieve
It seems there should be some sort of manslaughter charge brought as well. If you kill someone while driving drunk, you aren't just charged for the open container.
Teenagers in this day and age treat each other horribly. Prayers to the family that lost their son
Teenagers in this day and age treat each other horribly. Prayers to the family that lost their son
Teenagers in this day and age treat each other horribly. Prayers to the family that lost their son
The school year had only just begun. It is a time when freshman still need parenting through supervision by the school, or things can get crazy fast.
May The Lord give peace to his family.
I can’t even imagine what they are going through.
Prayer to his family. This loss will be hard to overcome.
I grieve over the loss of this young man and pray for his family.
To tell the truth I also feel sorry for the kids who did this and have ruined their own lives.
The roommate DID NOT KILL him.
This kid was weak and chose to kill himself.
Don’t conservatives believe in personal responsibility any more?
The question is how obvious is the causation between posting pictures of Clementi having sex on the Internet and his suicide. If someone asked me if its reasonable to assume someone may commit suicide if someone publicly humiliated them in that way, I'd probably say yes.
On the other hand, the kids pulling the prank, while mean-spirited, are still immature. Did they really think they were doing anything other than pulling a prank? Did they think through the consequences? That is a mitigating factor.
There is something missing in our kids today that they would even think of doing what they did. How on earth did they think that would be acceptable? The total lack of compassion is stunning. These kids are souless.
I have two sons in college, and I can only imagine what it must have been like for his family to get the phone call from the police or the college, telling them that their son was dead. May God help them.
No one appears to have caught or understood the “I dare you to ...” put forth by this Ravi person, who also reportedly attempted to secretly record sexual activity in another recent, separate instance.
He appears to have been a budding porn website entrepreneur, building a following, flogging his illicit, secret sexual video recordings. This means that Tyler Clementi was nothing but fodder, a young, naive, sexually confused kid who got not just a predator for a roomate, but a predator with a profit motive.
In other words, this wasn’t a prank. It was a calculated business decision. “I dare you to ...” im’ed to 150 people. Family attorneys should subpoena all records of his iChat account, and those of every follower he had, and the story will take on a different character, imho.
I’m so sorry for the family. I’ve tried to tamp it down in my own way, without success. The public uproar seems destined only to mushroom. Such a painful loss, and to be taunted on and on by total strangers and boors on the internet. The world seems alien to me sometimes.
We have a freshman at our local university, Western Washington, that disappeared Friday night, after a party. It was his first week of school. I’m thinking that it might have been a suicide, as well.
In one sense the culprits had no way of knowing what the victim’s response, the victims actions, would be. On the hand, morally, can it be denied that they did seek to harm the victim. Our prayers to his family.
Governor Christie needs to shut his pie hole and get back to work hammering down the public sector.