New Jersey Governor Chris Christie yesterday spoke out strongly on the suicide death of Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi.
Clementi took his own life after his college roommate and another student allegedly taped him having sex with another man without his knowledge or consent and posted the tape on the internet.
Speaking of the perpetrators, Christie said he did not know how they could sleep at night "knowing that they contributed to driving that young man" to suicide.
Christie called Clementi's death an "unspeakable tragedy."
"As the father of a 17-year-old…I can't imagine what those parents are feeling today, I can't. You send your son to school to get an education with great hopes and aspirations, and I can't imagine what those parents are feeling today," he said. The Governor was clearly quite emotional as he discussed the tragedy.
"There might be some people who can take that type of treatment and deal with it, and there might be others, as this young man obviously was, who was much more greatly affected by it," Christie said. "I have to tell you, I don't know how those two folks are going to sleep at night, knowing that they contributed to driving that young man to that alternative."
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