The legal battle involving a man accused of encouraging a Carleton student’s suicide six years ago came to a final conclusion Sept. 10.
William Melchert-Dinkel, a 52 year-old Minnesota resident, was found responsible for assisting and encouraging two separate suicides.
Nadia Kajouji was an 18-year-old Carleton student who killed herself in 2008.
Her actions were encouraged online by Melchert-Dinkel, who posed online as a suicidal female nurse and gave people advice on how to end their lives.
He was originally convicted in 2011 but appealed the case. Portions of the original ruling were struck down before being returned to a lower court, which convicted Melchert-Dinkel on Tuesday.
He is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 15.
Kajouji’s brother Marc now works with Your Life Counts, a suicide-prevention agency.
“There is no punishment that will be equal to the pain that my family has had from losing Nadia. We don’t believe in an eye for an eye,” he told the Ottawa Citizen.
“I have to think about being positive, and having her legacy and her name speak for itself.”
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