‘She has no conscience’: Mother of suicide victim speaks out about Michelle Carter’s trial

Yesterday, Michelle Carter, on trial for involuntary manslaughter, was found guilty.

Carter, 20, was accused of persuading her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, to kill himself via text in 2014. The couple met in Florida in 2012, but had only hung out in person a handful of times.

Prosecutors alleged Carter engaged in a “sick game of life and death,” triggering the 18-year-old boy’s suicide. “Stop thinking and just do it,” she said in a message. Read the rest of the texts she sent him here.

Following the verdict, the parents of Conrad Roy III spoke to CBS’ 48 Hours about Carter’s conviction.

“I think she needs to be held responsible for her actions ’cause she knew exactly what she was doing,” said Lynn, Conrad Roy’s mother.

“She knew exactly what she was doing and what she said.”

“I don’t believe she has a conscience,” she continued. “The fact that she would say to him, ‘Your family will get over you.’ How is that even — I will never get over him.”

She was asked to explain what Carter did, and all she could say was, “I cannot. Only she can.”

On July 12, Roy died of carbon monoxide poisoning in his pickup truck in a store parking lot in Fairhaven. In a 45 minute phone call immediately preceding his death, Roy allegedly got out of the vehicle.

In a message Carter later sent a friend, she said: “I fucken told him to get back in . . . His death is my fault.”

Carter will remain on bail with no contact to the Roy family, until her sentencing hearing, the week of July 31.

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