Former Boston College student charged in boyfriend's suicide pleads guilty
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A former Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with her boyfriend's suicide pleaded guilty Thursday.
A former Boston College student charged with involuntary manslaughter in connection with her boyfriend's suicide pleaded guilty Thursday as part of a plea deal.
Inyoung You, 23, changed her plea two years after initially pleading not guilty in Suffolk Superior Court in Boston in the death of her then-boyfriend, Alexander Urtula.
Urtula died by suicide at the age of 22 on May 20, 2019, the day of his graduation from Boston College. Prosecutors argued that You "directly contributed" to Urtula's suicide through "escalating and unrelenting verbal, physical and psychological abuse that she admitted in court," the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office said in a statement following Thursday's hearing.
Prosecutors said You sent Urtula more than 47,000 text messages over the course of their 18-month-long relationship, in which she "repeatedly told the victim that he should kill himself or die and waged a campaign of abuse that stripped the victim of his free will," the statement said.
