Michelle Carter Slams $4.2 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit
Oct. 6 2017, Updated 9:55 a.m. ET
Michelle Carter’s attorney filed a response to Conrad Roy III’s mother’s wrongful death lawsuit, stating that she “neither admits nor denies,” the accusations, in court documents exclusively obtained by RadarOnline.com. The Teen Text Killer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after sending her boyfriend 20,000 text messages where she encouraged him to commit suicide. Click through the gallery to see her terse response to the lawsuit as she awaits her appeal in the criminal charges case.
Michelle Carter’s attorney filed a response to Conrad Roy III’s mother’s wrongful death lawsuit, stating that she “neither admits nor denies,” the accusations, in court documents exclusively obtained by RadarOnline.com. The Teen Text Killer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter after sending her boyfriend 20,000 text messages where she encouraged him to commit suicide. Click through the gallery to see her terse response to the lawsuit as she awaits her appeal in the criminal charges case.
Carter was just 17 when she sent Roy thousands of text messages encouraging him to commit suicide, which he did via carbon monoxide poisoning in his pickup truck in a K-Mart parking lot in July 2014. His mother, Lynn Roy, filed a $4.2 million lawsuit against Carter, claiming that she inflicted “severe personal injuries, great conscious pain and suffering of body and mind and ultimately death," upon Roy.
"The defendant neither admits nor denies these allegations in this form," attorneys Francis Lynch III and Andrew Lynch wrote in Carter’s response filed in Norfolk, Mass Thursday. Read the documents here. Roy’s mother accused Carter of “gross negligence, and/or her willful, wanton and/or reckless conduct,” in her 18-year-old son’s death after she “encouraged Mr. Roy to kill himself,” in her original lawsuit obtained by RadarOnline.com.
Carter’s sadistic text messages revealed during the trial included ones from the last day of his life on July 12, 2014. “You're so hesitant because you keep overthinking it and pushing it off,” she wrote to him. “You just need to do it Conrad. The more you push it off, the more it will eat at you.” The same day she continued, writing: “You're ready and prepared. All you have to do is turn the generator on and you’ll be free and happy. No more pushing it off, no more waiting.”
Carter’s attorneys wrote that she was not responsible for Roy’s death. "If, in fact, the defendant was negligent, the negligence of the plaintiff's decedent was of a greater degree than that of the defendant, whereby the plaintiff is barred from recovery," the documents obtained by RadarOnline.com stated.
“Miss Carter knew that Mr. Roy had a history of attempted suicides and was being treated for mental health issues including severe depression,” the documents filed in Dedham Superior Court obtained by RadarOnline.com state. “During the months and weeks prior to his death, Conrad H. Roy III exchanged communication with the Defendant, Michelle Carter, in which Ms. Carter encourage Mr. Roy to kill himself and chastised him for delaying the act.”
Carter was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison but was released on a “stay” on August 3, 2017. She would remain free from prison until her appeal case is complete. Stay with RadarOnline.com for updates on the case. We pay for juicy info! Do you have a story for RadarOnline.com? Email us at tips@radaronline.com, or call us at 800-344-9598 any time, day or night.