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- Dec 9, 2018
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INTERNET
Prosecutor's Office initiates investigation into Uruguayan allegedly linked to a website that encourages suicide
The site contains explicit instructions on how to die and encourages users to take their own lives, according to The New York Times.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021 5:00 PM
Person in front of computer, depressed. Photo: Archive.
Following a note published in the New York Times weeks ago, the Uruguayan Police informed the 11th shift prosecutor for Flagrancia, Cecilia Bonsigniore, about the case of a young Uruguayan who allegedly owns a website that encourages suicide .
The investigation is "very primary", said the Director of Communications of the Prosecutor's Office, Javier Benech, and it is a "complex" issue, given that in Uruguay Article 315 of the Penal Code requires that a suicide actually take place in order to be able to charge someone for the crime of "assisting suicide."
ARTICLE 315
Whoever determines another to commit suicide or helps him commit it, if
death occurs, will be punished with six months in prison to six years in prison.
This maximum can be surpassed up to the limit of twelve years, when the crime is committed with respect to a minor under eighteen years of age, or a subject of intelligence or will depressed by mental illness or by the abuse of alcohol or the use of narcotics.
In this sense, the Prosecutor's Office expressed its willingness to cooperate if it receives any type of request from abroad for international cooperation .
According to The New York Times, the Uruguayan investigated and a US citizen started the website in 2018, in which they give explicit instructions on how to die .
As reported by the New York media, in the public forums of the users page they discuss "hanging, poison, weapons and gas", as well as suicide plans, messages of encouragement to those who want to comply with them and pride in the members who take their own lives.
The New York Times identified 45 website users who committed suicide in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada and Australia, ranging in age from 16 to 58. More than 500 members even wrote "goodbye threads", in which they announced how and when they planned to commit suicide, after which they never published again.
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INTERNET
Prosecutor's Office initiates investigation into Uruguayan allegedly linked to a website that encourages suicide
The site contains explicit instructions on how to die and encourages users to take their own lives, according to The New York Times.
Tuesday, December 21, 2021 5:00 PM
Person in front of computer, depressed. Photo: Archive.
Following a note published in the New York Times weeks ago, the Uruguayan Police informed the 11th shift prosecutor for Flagrancia, Cecilia Bonsigniore, about the case of a young Uruguayan who allegedly owns a website that encourages suicide .
The investigation is "very primary", said the Director of Communications of the Prosecutor's Office, Javier Benech, and it is a "complex" issue, given that in Uruguay Article 315 of the Penal Code requires that a suicide actually take place in order to be able to charge someone for the crime of "assisting suicide."
ARTICLE 315
Whoever determines another to commit suicide or helps him commit it, if
death occurs, will be punished with six months in prison to six years in prison.
This maximum can be surpassed up to the limit of twelve years, when the crime is committed with respect to a minor under eighteen years of age, or a subject of intelligence or will depressed by mental illness or by the abuse of alcohol or the use of narcotics.
In this sense, the Prosecutor's Office expressed its willingness to cooperate if it receives any type of request from abroad for international cooperation .
According to The New York Times, the Uruguayan investigated and a US citizen started the website in 2018, in which they give explicit instructions on how to die .
As reported by the New York media, in the public forums of the users page they discuss "hanging, poison, weapons and gas", as well as suicide plans, messages of encouragement to those who want to comply with them and pride in the members who take their own lives.
The New York Times identified 45 website users who committed suicide in the United States, the United Kingdom, Italy, Canada and Australia, ranging in age from 16 to 58. More than 500 members even wrote "goodbye threads", in which they announced how and when they planned to commit suicide, after which they never published again.
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There is no end to this.. also wasn't sure where to post this so i posted it in Off-Topic..
