Hope Barden, 21, died while working a second job in the online adult film industry after she was paid to strangle herself while Jerome Dangar, 45, allegedly watched online and then failed to alert authorities when she began to suffocate, police said, according to The New York Post.

“Hope was a 21-year-old woman and her death was tragic,” Detective Inspector John Quilty said in the statement.

Barden’s body was discovered March 15, 2018 by her roommate after she died of asphyxiation in what investigators are calling “sexually related role play” death.

Dangar was arrested in connection to the death in May 2018 and authorities were considering charging the 45-year-old with manslaughter after authorities said “there was no attempt to raise any emergency response to the danger he had put her in.”

Barden’s mother, Kate Barden, said the family was “sorely disappointed” that Dangar would never be brought to justice for her daughter’s death after forcing her into “degrading and dangerous” situations.

Barden’s family and friends have been left devastated by her death, she said.

Source – Oxygen.com