15-month texting suicide sentence sparks outrage ... and eyebrow jokes?
Some online posters reacted with outrage Thursday after a judge sentenced Michelle Carter to 15 months in jail for encouraging her boyfriend to kill himself.
Others, however, seemed to find Carter’s eyebrows in courtroom photos more objectionable.
Carter, 20, had been convicted in June of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Conrad Roy III, who killed himself in 2014.
Carter had sent Roy numerous texts encouraging him to commit suicide, even telling him to re-enter his car as it filled with exhaust fumes when he had second thoughts before his death.
She faced up to 20 years in jail. The Massachusetts judge in the case sentenced her to 2 1/2 years, with 15 months to be served in jail and the rest suspended, plus a period of probation. The judge also suspended the 15 months pending appeals.
Some online posters reacted with outrage to what they considered a light sentence.
#MichelleCarter gets 2.5 years for persuading someone to kill themselves and others are sentenced decades over ridiculous drug charges?? HOW
— MorganFreeman (@Morgan_left) August 3, 2017
Others questioned whether Carter’s race played a role.
now we all know if she wasn't a white girl she would've got way more time don't @ me #MichelleCarter pic.twitter.com/33WWtiDRZO
— (@onlyesny) August 3, 2017
But still others, bizarrely, seemed more focused on Carter’s eyebrows.
DID NO ONE URGE HER TO FIX HER EYEBROWS? #michellecarter https://t.co/qEV5qRge8p
— Corie (@CorieStories) August 3, 2017
The jokes fell flat with some posters, however.
Its sad how people are more upset over #michellecarter eyebrows than her role in coercing her boyfriend to commit suicide
— Molly Flinchum (@molly_flinchum) August 3, 2017
This story was originally published August 3, 2017 at 2:07 PM with the headline "15-month texting suicide sentence sparks outrage ... and eyebrow jokes?."