Suicide student webcam case opens

“It was certainly not good-natured as the defendant has suggested. It was purposeful, intentional meanspirited, malicious and criminal.

“Those acts were meant to cross one of the most sacred boundaries of human privacy, engaging in private sexual human activity.”

Miss McClure added: “It is not about Dharun Ravi having to like his roommate’s sexual orientation. This is about Dharun Ravi having the decency to respect it and to respect Tyler’s privacy, and the defendant did not do that.”

The case is expected to focus on Ravi’s use of social media to discuss his roommate even before they arrived at Rutgers. The two were barely speaking by the time they started as undergraduates in September 2010 after Ravi posted a series of Tweets in which he discussed Clementi’s sexuality – all of which were read by the teenager before the first day of term.

Ravi also tweeted about what he had seen on the web cam – he said he set it up to find out why Clementi had asked to have their room to himself, watching with another student, Molly Wei, from her room across the hall.

Wei has had charges against her dropped after agreeing to testify against Ravi.

The Indian-born student suggested on social media that he would again be spying on his roommate a few days after the first incident, but Clementi read the messages and disconnected the camera. He killed himself shortly afterwards.

The trial in New Brunswick, New Jersey, continues.

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