Google “Tyler Clementi.” I got 282,000 results for the Rutgers University student who committed suicide after one of his schoolmates subjected him to a cruel, despicable prank. Clementi was a freshman, apparently gay, and had sex with another male student in his room.
Clementi’s roommate may have grown up watching too many Jerry Springer and Maury Povich shows. The roommate, Darun Ravi, thought he’d get some yuks by streaming a video of Clementi in the act with another dude on the Internet. Clementi was so despondent by the invasion of his privacy that he took a leap off the George Washington Bridge.
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