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Molly Wei and Dharun Ravi are accused of secretly putting a webcam in Tyler Clementi's dorm room

Joe Pascente and Alina Dain

Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, two Rudgers university students, are accused of placing a hidden camera in a dorm room, secretly filming another student’s sexual encounter and placing the video online, NBC New Yorkreports.

The student in question, Tyler Clementi, 18, committed suicide not long after the video was published by jumping into the Hudson River, the New York Daily News reports.

Dharun Ravi and Molly Wei, both 18, each face two counts of invasion of privacy. Dharun Ravi also faces more counts of invasion of privacy for trying to tape Tyler Clementi in an earlier sexual encounter. Furthermore, Dharun Ravi apparently also published a tweet on a Twitter page, implying that Clementi was with another man in the video, therefore possibly outing Tyler Clementi as homosexual. 

According to thenewsoftoday.com, Dharon Ravi wrote on his Twitter account, “Roommate asked for the room till midnight. I went into molly’s room and turned on my web cam. I saw him making out with a dude. Yay!”

Tyler Clementi was spotted by at least two individuals as as he was standing on the south walk of the bridge, not long before he jumped.  He left no note and his body remained missing. Police did discover a body floating in the river, but it has not yet been identified.