(CNN) Their text messages were meant only for each other. Text messages among high school friends detailing a night of heavy drinking and sexual abuse played a critical role in rape convictions in 2013 in Steubenville, Ohio. Prosecutors in Massachusetts have described a torrent of text messages that defendant Michelle Carter sent to her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III, encouraging him to take his life . "You can sort of broach the topic, and it doesn't have to be this huge thing," Ybarra told CNN. "The tone gets misread (in) the communication between the teenagers," Greenberg said.

Source: CNN June 12, 2017 11:15 UTC