Amanda Knox, once accused of murder in an infamous trial that unfolded in Italy nearly a decade ago, says that Michelle Carter needs help and sympathy, not a prison sentence.

Carter, 20, was sentenced in Taunton, Massachusetts, on Thursday to 2 years in prison for coercing her boyfriend, 18-year-old Conrad Roy, to kill himself in 2014. Carter was 17 when Roy died.

Shortly after sentencing, the Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by Knox denouncing Carters involuntary manslaughter charges and sentencing. Knox related the trials publicity to her own experience as the worlds femme fatale.

Its hard to feel sympathy for Carter, who was wrong to instruct Roy over the phone to get back into the truck in which he was poisoning himself with carbon monoxide, Knox wrote in the Times. But involuntary manslaughter?