“There would have to be specific evidence of knowledge by the actors that the victim, this boy, was vulnerable, had emotional problems, would likely and foreseeably react in the way he did,”

The sole intent by the pair was to embarrass and humiliate the victim to a potentially WORLDWIDE audience. I don’t care whether or not the victim exhibited prior emotionally instability—again, the intent was meant to cause the maximum amount of embarrassment and emotional trauma and damage to not only the victim, but his friends, family, coworkers, associates, professors, etc.

The argument by the attorney is akin to saying that “the criminal stabbed the victim, and it’s the victim’s fault that they bled.” It doesn’t matter if the perps knew whether the victim would commit suicide—they DIDN’T KNOW THAT HE WOULDN’T EITHER.

Also, this was no isolated incident—the two tried on multiple occasions to collect the video and distribute it online. That shows aggravated intent to commit a crime. Not only should both be expelled from Rutgers, but both should be held liable in both criminal and civil court. Their actions are directly responsible for placing the victim in a state of mental duress which led to his suicide.

Period—over, done.

I have experienced workplace bullying, and that knowledge was passed along to my pastor (yes!) and a church,and has spread throughout a small city. I cannot go to a doctor, dentist, the post office, shopping without being harassed. I am suicidal as a result.

Bullying comes in all forms: boom boxes continually disturbing people who live near an intersection is an example. We live in a sick, sick, sick world.

I’d like to ask the rocket scientists here that are calling “murder” and “hate crime” a question. What do they do about the other guy in the video ? Attempted murder ? Gimme a break !

Be real ! As unfortunate and sad as it might be, he and ONLY he is responsible for his own death (look up “suicide” in a dictionary).

Revi and Wei have already been tried and convicted of hate crimes and murder by the press, politicians, and “gay rights” groups with a sentence to rot in jail forever.

Of course, it won’t be so easy for the actual DA to convict these two.

Right now they’ll threaten them with everything they can and scare them to cop a plea. The hype has gone so far so I’m guessing they already have tons of big name lawyers who will jump on this case to defend them… sounds like a great way to get your name out there and probably win a case.

My guess is one of two scenarios happening: #1: Wei is given immunity and they try throwing the book at Revi using her testimony. They go to court and he has a 75% chance of being found not guilty or having a hung jury.

#2: They try to get them to cop pleas. Wei gets probation, Revi gets 1-2 years in prison.

I think this case will ultimate hurt the “gay rights” movement as people start realizing gays are putting themselves in a “protected class” meaning you don’t mess with them by accident much less on purpose. Avoid gays like the plague or you’ll pay.

Everyone should be treated equally, and if a witch hunt is set on these two simply because the victim happened to be gay, there is no justice in that.

If Rutgers had some real men, this would be taken care of. Used to be a time when men did not tolerate some punk harrassing others. Little Slssy and punk boy friend would be droping out of school by now.

Look, I feel terrible for this young man and his family.
But emotions are out of control, here. You all are lynching these 2 young people.

This young mans was obvioulsy very emotioanlly unstable. If his acts were so embarassing to him, why do the acts, especisally in a shared dorm room?

He committed suicde he was not killed by these 2 strudents. I do not condone their actions, but if you get fired and you commtit suicide do you blame the boss, if you kill yourself? If someone breaks up with you, do we charge them with murder.

Please control yiour emotions and stop lynching these 2, they could not have known this young mas was so unstable.

Go ahead and call me names that will prove that your emotions are out of control. I pray for this young mans soul and his family.

I’m sorry, they were stupid but they didn’t create a world where the kid would rather be dead than have people know he was gay. Lets not end three peoples lives because society has issues.

Punjab is gonna get filled out more than the census once he hits Rahway!

As others aer pointing out -EVERYONE is resposible for their OWN actions an NOT the actions of others.

Since this was his house too, I don’t see a successful procecution being possible.

It is sad, but he decided to kill himself…

Punks, sorry the student felt the need to take his own life but this generation of young Americans make me want to puke. For the most part your all losers. Paperweight people. Not much to any of you all.

It’s not the job of the state to try to bring charges that are not warranted. It was a stupid act, they will have to live with it, the justice system will punish them, the civil court system will impose a financial judgement against them I’m sure, but to fabricate a hate crime is a bigger injustice.

Sadly, the hate came from the boy himself. Reprehensible that he would kill someone (himself) just for being outed as gay. He can’t enjoy the perks and pleasures and not pay the price of being out. Just another awful case of a guy committing a hate-crime against himself.

What caused this young man’s to end? Was it the fact people now knew he was gay? Was it the fact that he starred in a sex video distributed online? OR – was it the fact that he killed himself?

Who’s to blame for HIS death – only himself. Who’s to blame for his humiliation – the one’s who invaded his privacy. Who’s to blame for his feeling of shame for being/acting gay….society, friends, family, himself?

Im assuming the guys who braodcasted this are also gay… Its obvious from this kids pic. I suppose when your that age its alot different. I found out many years ago, people that wig out about gays, Get them in the exact right situation for themselves and mark my words they will be the very first to drop their pants. AND THATS A TRUE KNOWN FACT TO ALL HETROSEXUALS!!

This was a freshman hazing. Sorry, I know that many of you would like it to be more, but it is not. It happens to hetrosexuals regularly and is equally embarrassing. It does not always end in suicide because the victims make different choices as to how they will respond to their embarrassment..

The person responsible for the death is the individual who chose to kill himself. Putting the blame on a couple of college dorm pranksters is wrong.

i wonder how many of those ‘outraged’ laughed through the ‘American Pie’ movies. The point is that there isn’t anything funny about this kind of thing, but when Hollywood does it & makes millions, folks think it’s super funny., Hypocrites.

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I also blame anyone who actually clicked the choice to watch this act online, and still stayed with it once they saw what it was. I hope each of them will be haunted with that guilt forever. Shame on them.

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Some sick joke, causing a young man to destroy his life. Your consious will never be clear. I feel so bad for the young man who took his life and for his family and close friends.

Fern mentioned that the bigs one beat the small ones. As far as I’m concerned, the kids who committed the invasion of privacy act are considered the small ones. The young man committed suicide was just weak and needed advice or a shoulder to cry on – it may have prevented him from ending it all – just like that.
I believe that society is changing. People need to look within themselves, are they cruel animals – would they have performed this invasion of privacy on their own brother or sister?

I think its ridiculous to turn this into a hate crime or make it a “gay rights” issue. heterosexual girls have been subjected to the same type of exploitation for the sake of someone’s laugh. Just because someon is gay or black or a woman doesnt mean that when they are vicitimized we shoudl make it a “rights” or “hate” issue – sometimes people are just dispicable adn mean adn nasty adn shoudl be punished but when we create specail treatment for certian type of people then we start focusing on our differences which ultimately further divide us…

are you talking figuratively,or literally Fern, or are we talking about our politicians…..?

I would love this to be considered a hate crime.
It’s a bout time kids are taught how to behave, and come to think about it Doomberg wants to fire a good teacher because of her past, why not fire all these teachers looking the other way when witnessing some bullying.
As long as we allow the big ones to beat on the small ones we’ll be a failed society.