Online Kevorkian fraud found guilty of 'lethal advocacy'

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Judge: Free Speech No Defense for Urging Suicide - ABC News

Freedom of speech is no defense for a former nurse who engaged in "lethal advocacy" when he encouraged an English man and Canadian woman to kill themselves after searching for depressed people over the Internet, a Minnesota judge said in delivering a guilty verdict against the man.

The judge found William Melchert-Dinkel, 48, guilty Tuesday of two counts of aiding the suicides of Mark Drybrough, 32, of Coventry, England, who hanged himself in 2005, and Nadia Kajouji, 18, of Brampton, Ontario, who jumped into a frozen river in 2008. Melchert-Dinkel declined a jury trial and left his fate to Rice County District Judge Thomas Neuville.

What a sick douche.

 

[Blagger]

I think the words 'callous' and '****' are more appropriate, considering what he's done/influenced. Don't you, manifold? Although this isn't the first time one party has induced another to commit suicide via the internet, and it won't be the last.