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Thursday 8 June 2017
Message from woman in suicide trial: ‘It’s my fault’ Woman sentenced
over Sandy Hook
Michelle Carter, then 17, found out that police had parent threat case
cajoled Conrad Roy III, 18, Roy’s phone.
to kill himself in July 2014 “I’m done,” Carter wrote By CURT ANDERSON
with a series of texts and in one text displayed in the AP Legal Affairs Writer
phone calls, prosecutors court room. “His family will FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP)
allege. Roy died when his hate me and I can go to — A Florida woman plead-
pickup truck fill with carbon jail.” ed guilty and was sent
monoxide in a store park- Two other friends say Cart- to prison Wednesday for
ing lot in Fairhaven. er texted them saying she threatening a man whose
“It’s my fault,” Carter text- was on the phone with Roy 6-year-old son was killed
ed to her school friend as he died. in the 2012 mass shooting
Samantha Boardman. “I “I was talking on the phone at a Connecticut school,
could have stopped him with him when he killed which she contended was
but I told him to get back himself ... I heard him die,” a hoax.
in the car.” Carter texted to Olivia Senior U.S. District Judge
Boardman was among Mosolgo days after Roy’s James Cohn sentenced
several of Carter’s friends death, Mosolgo testified. Lucy Richards, 57, to five
and acquaintances who Carter also expressed re- months in prison, followed
took the witness stand on morse in a message to a by five months of home
the second day of the in- friend: “I’m the only one he detention. She pleaded
voluntary manslaughter tri- told things too. guilty to interstate trans-
al in Taunton juvenile court. I should have gotten him mission of a threat to injure
Carter’s lawyer disputes a more help,” she wrote. in communications with
crime occurred. Attorney The police detective who Lenny Pozner, the father
Michelle Carter, right, listens to the testimony of Thomas Gam- Joseph Cataldo said Roy conducted the criminal of Noah Pozner, who died
mell, as she sits with her defense team, Cory Madera, fore- in the Sandy Hook school
ground, and Joe Cataldo, left, during her trial, Tuesday, June was depressed, had at- investigation also testified. shooting in Newtown, Con-
6, 2017, in Taunton, Mass. Carter is charged with manslaughter tempted suicide before, Fairhaven Detective Scott
for allegedly using text messages to encourage her boyfriend, researched suicide meth- Gordon said he found necticut.
Conrad Roy III, 18, to kill himself. ods online and was com- Roy’s phone and discov- Cohn called Richards’ ac-
(Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool) pletely responsible for his ered the text conversation tions toward Pozner “dis-
own death. between Roy and Carter. turbing” and said no one
TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — A a text to a friend from high He said Carter’s text mes- The case is being tried with- should cite a conspiracy
young woman charged school about two months sages are protected free out a jury, and a judge theory or belief in a hoax
with using text messages after the death, saying, speech. will deliver the verdict. The in the deaths of 20 chil-
to encourage her boy- “It’s my fault,” according Carter, now 20, also told judge visited the site where dren and six adults that oc-
friend to kill himself when to testimony at her trial on Boardman that she feared Roy’s truck was found on curred at the school.
they were teenagers sent Wednesday. getting in trouble after she Wednesday afternoon. q “I’m sure he wishes this
was false and he could
Illinois: embrace Noah, hear

Child found in garage may have been killed in 2013 Noah’s heartbeat and
hear Noah say ‘I love you,
Dad’,” Cohn told Richards.
“Your words were cruel
By JIM SALTER a dilapidated and vacant children were taken into “We’re looking at the be- and insensitive. This is real-
Associated Press home in the impoverished protective custody. havior of both of them for ity and there is no fiction.
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in Il- town of about 6,000 resi- “It was very disturbing potential criminal charg- There are no alternative
linois believe the remains of dents. when you saw the chil- es,” Wolfson said. facts.”Investigators say
a child found in the garage Authorities suspect the child dren,” Spencer said. Any charges related to the Richards made four voice-
of a vacant home had was killed in nearby Bel- Belleville detectives were girl’s death would be filed mail and email threats to
been there four years and leville in 2013 and taken to sent to Las Vegas to work in Illinois. St. Clair County Pozner on Jan. 10, 2016,
are investigating the death the Centreville garage. An on the case, while others State’s Attorney Brendan after viewing internet sites
as a homicide. autopsy is expected later focused Wednesday on Kelly said the investigation claiming the shooting was
Officers found the remains this week, St. Clair County a Belleville home, Master was still ongoing and de- a hoax aimed at curtail-
Tuesday morning after a Coroner Calvin Dye Sr. said. Sgt. Todd Keilbach said clined further comment. ing Americans’ Second
woman in Las Vegas con- The girl’s mother contact- Wednesday. Court records show that a Amendment gun owner-
tacted police and told ed police from a woman’s Real estate records ob- man with the same name ship rights. The messages
officers her husband had shelter, where she said she tained by The Associated and birth date as Quate said things such as “you
killed their then-6-year-old had gone to seek refuge Press show Quate lived in was convicted of three gonna die, death is com-
daughter in Illinois years from her husband. the Belleville home that crimes in Belleville. ing to you real soon” and
earlier and hid the body in She said Quate killed the was being examined. He was sentenced to pro- “LOOK BEHIND YOU IT IS
the garage of a home in child during a “physical al- There are no records in- bation for two residential DEATH.”
Centreville, near St. Louis. tercation,” Las Vegas po- dicating that Quate ever burglaries in July 2000 and Richards, seated in a
She also said her husband, lice Lt. Raymond Spencer lived at the home in Cent- was convicted of misde- wheelchair at the hear-
identified by police as Ja- said in a video statement. reville. meanor retail theft in May ing, has significant mental
son Quate, 34, forced her Spencer said officers were Quate is jailed in Las Vegas. 2000. health problems including
into sex trafficking over the told the woman’s remain- Clark County District Attor- Neighbors told the Belleville agoraphobia — fear of
past two years and had ing children, who are in ney Steve Wolfson said he News-Democrat that the leaving one’s house — ob-
abused two other children. their early teens, were nev- expected to file charges small house in Centreville sessive compulsive disor-
Las Vegas police shared the er allowed outside, even to of felony sex trafficking with boarded-up windows der and anxiety disorder,
tip with Centreville police, attend school. and living off the earnings has been vacant for more court documents show. But
who found the small de- He described them as pale of a prostitute Wednesday than two years. Cohn said he did not think
composed body wrapped and lacking socialization against Quate. Property records show mental illness triggered
in two blankets inside the skills, and said officers ob- Wolfson said the woman the home was last sold for Richards’ actions.q
detached garage behind served signs of abuse. Both also is under investigation. $25,500 in 2005.q