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May 22, 2012

Rutgers Student Gets 30-Day Sentence in Gay Bullying Case 
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A former Rutgers University student has been sentenced to 30 days in
prison for spying on a gay classmate who later took his own life. Tyler
Clementi jumped to his death from a bridge in September 2010 after two
classmates shared a videotape of him having sex with another man in his
dorm room. The students had recorded Clementi’s sexual encounter
without his knowledge. He had just started his freshman year at Rutgers
University. On Monday, Judge Glen Berman sentenced one of the students,
Dahrun Ravi.

Glen Berman: "There will be 300 hours of community service. This
defendant will attend a counseling program relative to cyber-bullying
and alternate lifestyles. There will be $10,000 (U.S.) recessment paid
over to the probation department. This I hope is the constructive part,
though I doubt the defendant will see it that way. That sum will be
allotted to a state licensed, or state chartered community-based
organization dedicated to providing assistance to victims of bias
crimes."

 

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