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What would you do if your personal sexual encounters were broadcast for the Internet?

Tyler Clementi, a Rutgers university freshman, decided he couldn't live any longer. The 18-year-old jumped in the George Washington Bridge in ny town final week, ending his personal life.

His videotaped encounter was reportedly with an additional man.

It's a loss which has students and gay activists up in arms, but, in accordance with Dr. Isaac Herschopf, a psychiatrist at NYU and Bellevue Hospital who hasn't worked for the case, the pressure may have been completely intense.

"When I primary read this I thought, 'this is a child who couldn't deal with his parents,'" he said. "He may have experienced an undiagnosed problem that made him additional vulnerable," he says. "Or it may have been completely pre-existing tension - the very idea of having to inform his parents may have been completely setting up in him."

The Clementi loved ones said they are "heartbroken past words" in a statement.

Clementi's suicide requires spot at a time when there are additional positive LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-gender) part models with the advertising than actually before, and politically, quite a few additional people think of gay rights as civil rights. Still, quite a few youthful people who are gay or questioning their sexuality, struggle terribly.
Dr. Jennifer Hartstein, an "Early Show" contributor and child and adolescent psychologist, said Clementi was most likely going via a number of things soon after he acquired he was spied on, allegedly by classmates.

"He's already additional worried about how he will match in and where he fits in and struggling with that, we are able to assume, as that comes about in a lot of gay teenagers. We then need to figure out - here it is, he's struggling with that already, after which his roommate requires advantage of that and preys for the weakness that is this uncertainty and this fear," she said.

"And now, everybody knows, and he now has to answer to all of that, and doesn't necessarily know how. And, sadly, the only option becomes suicide, because they don't think they can do kind of sufficient damage control or cope with it enough."

So what can be completed to steer clear of situations like this with the future?

Everyone, from parents to schools to the federal government, should be functioning to make sure anti-bullying legislation consists of LGBT people, she says.

Case in point: CBS news reported that a gay 13-year-old boy died Tuesday soon after he tried to hang himself. He experienced been tormented by bullies.

Clementi may have felt tormented as well.

Police believe his roommate Dharun Ravi, and an additional classmate, Molly Wei, used Skype to stream Clementi's sexual affairs to the web after which boast about it.

"Roommate requested for the room until midnight," Ravi, 18, tweeted on Sept. 19. "I went into Molly's room and turned on my webcam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay."

It is unclear how quite a few people really saw the video, however it was too much for the shy, Ridgewood, N.J., teen to handle.

"Jumping away the gw bridge sorry," the freshman authored on his Facebook page, in accordance with WPIX 11 News.

Some of Ravi and Wei's close friends find it hard to believe that the pair could have acted maliciously - that instead, it was additional of the practical joke gone wrong, according to the ny Post.

Dr. Herschopf doesn't buy it. "These kids knew he would be humiliated by this - they may not have recognised to what extent. But to disseminate publicly something you understand will humiliate somebody is nothing short of sadistic."

There is a Facebook page dedicated to Clementi's memory.

Ravi and Wei were charged with two counts each and every of invasion of privacy. If convicted, they could each and every deal with up to five many years in jail.