Word: bursztajn
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...recent filing of a wrongful-death civil suit to a district court in Florida, Harvard Medical School Psychiatry Professor Harold J. Bursztajn stated that CNN reporter Nancy Grace may have contributed to the suicide of Melinda Duckett, the mother of a 2-year-old who went missing...
...opinion he provided to the U.S. District Court in Ocala, Fla., Bursztajn referred to Grace’s interview with Duckett at the time as “apparently unanticipated public humiliation... contributing to the cause of her suicide...
According to the court filing, Bursztajn said that “the timing [of Duckett’s suicide] is consistent with an increased sense of despair following the interview and a fear of the effects of its broadcast.” He wrote that this led him to the preliminary conclusion that Grace may have contributed to the cause of Duckett’s suicide...
...Bursztajn told The Crimson in an e-mailed statement that he was not able to comment because the case is still in litigation...