Twenty year old woman gets 15 months in Prison for encouraging boyfriend to kill himself

[Machiavellian]

Jumpin said:

JWeinCom said:

That's like saying people have sex with a drugged girl shouldn't be a crime, because people have sex all the time.  Those are obviously not analogous situations.  

Just like telling someone to kill themselves on this forum (by the way if it happens all the time, you may want to check your attitude cause I haven't seen that happen to anyone else) is not analogous to telling someone you have a close relationship with, who has confided in you that they want to kill themself, who is in the process of killing themself to kill themself.

Incorrect. That would be rape. Also, the guy was not drugged, so it is an invalid analogy due to the false equivalency.

A more accurate analogy would be a woman convincing a depressed guy to have sex with her. Would any court consider that a crime?

Yes it would if she had a disease like Aids and transmitted the disease to that man knowing she had the disease.  The fact of the matter is that she is in no obligation to change this guy mind but once she becomes the catalyst to him killing himself then she becomes an accessory to the act.  Form the text message its very clear she deliberately goads him into doing the act over the course of 2 days or more and I believe a call to seal the deal.

If you think about it and this was your son, you would consider her a murder because she did not give the family or anyone else a chance to intervene.

Another analogy would be if a person convinces a mentally challenge person to step into ongoing traffic and that person dies, would the person be prosecuted for a crime.