Clementi Family: Ravi's Actions Led to Tyler's Suicide

The family of the gay Rutgers student who jumped off the George Washington Bridge after a series of webcam spying incidents says Tyler Clementi's college roommate is at least partially responsible for his death.

In speaking exclusively to NBC Rock Center for the first time since Dharun Ravi, 20, of Plainsboro, completed his brief jail term, the family opened up about how their views on homosexuality have changed, the role they believe Ravi played in Tyler's death and the judge's controversial sentence.

“It was the humiliation that his roommates and his dorm-mates were watching him in a very intimate act. And that they were laughing behind his back,” Jane Clementi, Tyler's mother, said, according to the Associated Press. “The last thing that Tyler looked at before he left the dorm room for the bridge (he jumped from) was the Twitter page, where (his roommate) was announcing Tyler’s activities.”

Ravi was not charged in Clementi's death.

A shy and gifted musician, the Ridgewood native grew up in an evangelical Christian household. Joseph Clementi, Tyler's father, told NBC's Lester Holt that the family's views on homosexuality have shifted since Tyler's death sparked international news headlines in 2010.

"Sin needs to be taken out of homosexuality," Joseph said, according to the New York Daily News. Tyler is reported to have said he felt "completely rejected" after coming out to his mother weeks before heading to Rutgers University.

The family also criticized Judge Glenn Berman's sentencing of Ravi, who was convicted on 15 charges including bias intimidation and invasion of privacy. Ravi served 20 days at the Middlesex County jail before his release on good behavior.

Prosecutors recommended five years, and the family previously said hard time would serve as a deterrent toward future invasion of privacy crimes.