They’re throwing the book at Dharun Ravi, roommate of Tyler Clementi, the Rutgers student who committed suicide late last year:
Dharun Ravi, a former Rutgers University student, was indicted on 15 counts including charges of invasion of privacy, bias intimidation and tampering with evidence by a grand jury in Middlesex County, N.J. Prosecutors allege that not only did Ravi invade Clementi’s privacy, but he tried to cover it up. Both Ravi and his alleged accomplice, former Rutgers student Molly Wei, are accused of filming Clementi during a “sexual encounter” in his dorm room with a man and then streaming it live on the Internet. Evidence against Wei has not yet been presented to a grand jury. Prosecutors allege that on Sept. 19 of last year, Ravi filmed Clementi with the purpose of intimidating him because of his sexual orientation. Ravi “disclosed a photograph, film, videotape, recording or other reproduction of the image of [Clementi]…whose intimate parts were exposed,” the indictment reads. When Ravi became worried about being charged with a crime, he sent false tweets in an attempt “to mislead a public servant who was engaged in such proceeding or investigation,” the indictment reads.
[h/t Joe]
I hope they throw the book at that little weasel.
Did that sound bitchy?
If a guilty verdict is reached, then prior to sentencing it would be appropriate for gay victims and their advocates to send brief, respectful letters to the judge, explaining how anti-gay bias has negatively impacted their (and in the case of advocate’s, their clients and/or the community’s) lives, and asking the judge to impose the maximum sentence to send a firm message about what society considers to be acceptable behavior towards the LGBT community.
Good. Maybe this will help prevent similar incidents in the future.
*happy dance*
I’m sure that on the night he did this he and little missy were having a really good laugh over how well they were humiliating his roommate. Well, it seems the laughter has died, and the real fun is beginning. Haha.