The mother of Conrad Roy, a young man who committed suicide, is suing Michelle Carter, who encouraged Roy to kill himself.
The mother, Lynn Roy, is demanding $4,224,000 in the wrongful death lawsuit. Carter has already been sentenced to two and half years for the involuntary manslaughter of Roy.
The money should serve as compensation for lost wages Roy would have earned if he had lived. Shortly before his death, he obtained a captain’s license, submitted as evidence of his earning prospects.
In 2014, Carter, 17, and Roy, 18, (both from Massachusetts) were in a long-distance relationship, mostly through texts. Around July that year, Carter encouraged Roy in multiple text messages and phone calls to follow through on his idea to kill himself using carbon monoxide poisoning. Roy suffered from anxiety and depression. Carter also has a history of mental illness.
Carter’s case drew national attention when the texts between her and Roy were released publicly. “I thought you wanted to do this. The time is right and you’re ready, you just need to do it!” Carter wrote. “You can’t think about it. You just have to do it. You said you were gonna do it. Like I don’t get why you aren’t,” she added in another message.
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