One 18 year old girl who encouraged her boyfriend to take his own life has been charged by police.
Michelle Carter is now facing charges of involuntary manslaughter, and on Monday, appeared in court in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Thousands of messages between her and her boyfriend Conrad Roy were read out, and in them, she is actively convincing him that suicide is the only option.
Since the texts were made public, the hashtag #JusticeForConrad has gone viral, with plenty of people taking to Twitter to express their horror and disgust at the messages.