Tyler Clementi Suicide: Dharun Ravi, Molly Wei, Bias Charges?

Harold and Kumar go to jail?

While the loss of life is pretty tragic, I can't quite make the stretch to "hate crime". All that was done was turn on a web-cam, in the guys own room... Unsure how this is an "invasion of privacy", given that it was Ravi's residence also. But I'm not their lawyer, nor any lawyer, just a regular guy.Monsters?!? Ha! A couple of kids, who pulled a stunt, and a poor kid with some obvious personal problems. Linking A with B is not so obvious in this case, there were definitely other isses that are being missed.

They made their choice.  Cause and effect.   If they are not US citizens,  if convicted, with a felony - they will be deported, and their lives on earth a living hell - provided they make it out of prison alive.   Bet their respective families are SO proud!

Molly Wei and Dharun Ravi are disgusting people.

As a mother, I am heartbroken for this young man and the agony his parents and family are going through. Due to the cruel acts of two thoughtless people, he was humiliated, to his thinking, beyond repair. There are so many people he could have reached out to-- friends, family, a professor, administrator or college pastor or counselor--who would have supported him through this terrible invasion of privacy. Unfortunately, he was too traumatized to realize it. It is never so bad that there is no way out. And now, a precious life is extinguished. I pray for his family--that Christ mends their broken hearts that they will remember the joy Tyler brought to their lives. We must all let it be known that this kind of invasion of privacy--and public display for all those who want to laugh at another person's expense will NOT be tolerated.

Let's all ban together and call and email Rutger's President to tell him to EXPEL those two losers - they deserve jail and the sooner the better!!!!!!! Please take a few minutes to email and call - we can all make a difference!!!!!!!!   

please, please, call rutger's presidents office and tell them to EXPEL those two creeps - if we all do this, they'll listen!!!!!!!!!!!!

These people are revolting. I am even more disgusted by the fact that I and one of the perpetrators were raised in the same town. 

Just because you don't agree with a persons life style dosn't mean you have to exploit them....I'm very sadden by this. It was very wrong.

For many of the youth of today, many things are done just fun and transient. Sadly, many only think of themselves with little if any sincere or genuine thought for the other party's feelings.  May Tyler's suicide that they contributed to, haunt them into adulthood and may the event continue to replay with increasing intensity whenever  they close their eyes to sleep and may they never find rest until they confess their sins publically to the parents and friends of Tyler and ultimately before God. They have been the cause of the loss of an irreplaceable and prevcous human life.

I agree with James Brayshaw somewhat. Now that the kid has commited suicide all our sympathy is with him, but let's not 'bully'  the other kids (Dharun and Molly) until they or their families have to resort to suicide as well. Are we not showing the same attitude that killed Tyler?

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Dear Molly and Dharun: I just wanted to pass on something a friend of mine has to deal with. He did something similar to what you did, and his victim ended up taking his own life, too. Today, my friend is genuinely remorseful and wishes more than anything that he could take back what he had done. He says that, on top of feeling miserable everyday, he is constantly plagued with death threats from anonymous persons. He can't even sit still in a restaurant, incessantly looking over his shoulder, fearing someone is observing him. To think that he actually did jail time and paid his debt to society, still to this day, his suffering is more than you can imagine. Molly and Dhuran, I wish you all the luck you can get.  You're gonna need every bit to it in your long lives ahead. May God forgive you both.