”First of all, it was shocking. It felt wrong. We didn’t expect to see that. And now that what we did, it was like we shouldn’t have seen it,” she told jurors. ”We didn’t want people to know what had happened.”
But within minutes, she testified, she and Ravi were online chatting with friends about seeing two men kissing. And within the hour, Wei said, she agreed to show a few seconds of the video stream to four other women who visited her dorm room.
Still, she said, Ravi did not intend to humiliate his roommate.
Wei, 19, was charged initially but entered a program that will allow her to keep her record clean if she meets a list of conditions, including doing community service, working, or attending school full-time. She also agreed to cooperate with authorities and testify truthfully in Ravi’s trial.
She said she has completed about 250 of the 300 hours of community service required.
Also last week, jurors heard from university official William O’Brien that Clementi requested a room change about 30 hours after the alleged spying—and a day before he killed himself.
O’Brien, associate director of residence life at Rutgers, told jurors that his staff did not see Clementi’s request for a new roommate until after he was reported missing from campus.
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