Man Who Urged Canadian's Suicide Gets 360 Days

Willaim Melchart-Dinkel gets a light sentence for helping to convince Nadia Kajouji, 18, to kill herself.

A man who lied about who he was to urge a Canadian university student to kill herself was sentenced to just under a year in jail today in a Minnesota court. Nadia Kajouji, an 18-year-old Carleton University student, committed suicide in 2008 after becoming depressed during her first winter away from home. William Melchart-Dinkel, a nurse from Minnesota, posed as a woman in online chats with Kajouji in which he proposed a suicide pact and urged Kajouji to take her own life. He admitted to doing the same with a British man who also committed suicide. Kajouji's disappearance rocked the nation's capital three years ago, and Melchart-Dinkel's light sentence – he faced 15 years for each of the two counts of aiding suicide – is bound to rankle those close to the case.