Megans Story

[rymmyisaac]

I was at work all day and heard it there! I cannot comment because I will be banned from here for life! May the guilt eat at her till she goes insane and may she rot in H*ll!

[rymmyisaac]

Just saw Megans neighbors attorney and Megan parents on the Today Show! He's saying the neighbors mom knew it was going on but it wasn't her idea! She said she wasn't there when the final E-Mail went out telling Megan that the world would be a better place without her! The worst part about it is the neighbors mother knew that Megan suffered from ADD and depression!! Megans parents said her story has changed three times! Its bad enough she's getting off scot free she is gonna sit there and lie about it to! At least have the b*lls to step up and admit what you've done and she should be on her hands and knees begging for forgiveness! I am just mortified by the whole thing! Just cant seem to be able to wrap my mind around the whole thing! The neighbor had to close her buisness and the daughter quit shool and somebody is supposed to feel sorry for them are you kidding me? You only get what you give in this life and she's gonna get it 10 fold! 

[Coffeenole]

May God watch over all of us and protect us on this forum...

[PHYON]

Megans Story! She was a 13 year old girl that hung herself in her closet last week because her neighbors mother thought that Megan was talking about her daughter so she made up a guy on Megans MySpace and the made up boy was telling Megan how pretty she was and so on then started saying all kinds of nasty things about Megan pretending to be this boy. Megan suffered from depression and took this whole thing to heart not knowing that the boy was just made up by a sick, warped parent of an aquaintence and she killed herself! There most likely wont be any charges brought against this neighbors mother. What say you?

What kind of a person would do that to a child? How could any adult do something like that to a 13 year old little girl?

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 That is horrible enough but what makes it worse is that nothing is going to happen to that mother.  What kind of country are we living in now when this can happen,and there is no recourse?  The only thing that has any good in it is that without a doubt that little girl is with our heavenly father now and far better off then anyone of us here. God Bless her.

[DeJaVue]

Hi Rymmy!! I just heard a smidgeon of this on our local news, so I got back on the pc to look it up. And it is true...they have indicted her!! Thank you for this step towards some justice and thank you Lord!!!

 
(CBS/AP) A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbor who later committed suicide.

Lori Drew of St. Louis, Mo., allegedly helped create a false-identity MySpace account to contact Megan Meier, who thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans. Josh didn't exist.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/15/tech/main4100052.shtml?...

[oldbat]

Good for the Federal Grand Jury!!! Any adult, or what passes for one, that would do something like that to a kid deserves to take some serious lumps. It was just way WRONG.

[tyetye]

I just saw this too, it's about time.

[rymmyisaac]

I saw it last night before I layed down! The neighbors attorney and Megans mother are on the today show right now! She was charged with conspiracy and Bullying on the internet amongst other things! The neighbor told everybody that knew anything about it to lie! She could do 20 years! Woo-Hoo!

Megans Mother is the bomb! She is not gonna stop till this no good
Be-Atch fries! You go Girl!

You're Momma's gonna make sure you're death wasn't in vain! May you rest in peace Sweet Megan! 

[oldbat]

Yeah, what she said!

[Princess Buttercup]

i hope that justice is done

[DeJaVue]

California does a lot of crazy things, but for this decision I say "Right on!!"

[rymmyisaac]

Have to agree DeJa! Kudos to California because Megans home state wouldn't do anything!

[Coffeenole]

What is really sad is that even if she receives 20 years, justice will not be served. This monster deserves the death penalty...what's the difference between murdering with a gun and murdering with a computer?

[rymmyisaac]

I agree with you 100% Coffee!

[oldbat]

Agree with all. And because this "cyber attack" was by an adult, toward a child, the penalty should be even harsher.

[d1me9]

a bittersweet moment- the punishment is finally being doled out, but it does not replace the fact that a girl has died because of the actions. Good for Megan's mother to NOT let this crime go !!

[rymmyisaac]

Well this whole thing isn't looking good! The piece of Sh*t that did this to Megan is being charged with illegal use of a computer and breaking the rules on MySpace! They said that this is a stretch because there are really no laws that would cause her to do any time for these charges!

Makes me sick!

[rymmyisaac]

Jury convicts mom of lesser charges in online hoax
LOS ANGELES — A Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyberbullying case was convicted Wednesday of three minor offenses instead of the main conspiracy charge in a cruel Internet hoax that apparently drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide.
The federal jury could not reach a verdict on the conspiracy allegation against 49-year-old Lori Drew and rejected three other felony counts of accessing computers without authorization to inflict emotional harm on the girl.
Instead, the panel convicted her of three misdemeanor offenses of accessing computers without authorization. Each of those counts is punishable by up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Drew faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the four original counts.
U.S. District Court Judge George Wu declared a mistrial on the conspiracy count. It was not known if she would be retried.
Drew did not show any visible emotion when the clerk read the verdicts.
Most members of the six-man, six-woman jury left court without speaking to reporters. One juror, who would only identify himself by the first name, Marcilo, indicated jurors were not convinced Drew's actions involved the intent alleged by prosecutors.
"Some of the jurors just felt strongly that it wasn't tortious and everybody needed to stay with their feeling. That was really the balancing point," he said.
The case hinged on an unprecedented — and, some legal experts say, highly questionable — application of computer-fraud law.
Prosecutors said Drew and two others created a fictitious 16-year-old boy on MySpace and sent flirtatious messages from him to teenage neighbor Megan Meier. The "boy" then dumped Megan, saying, "The world would be a better place without you." Megan promptly hanged herself with a belt in her bedroom closet in October 2006.
Prosecutors said Drew wanted to humiliate Megan for saying mean things about Drew's teenage daughter. They said Drew knew Megan suffered from depression and was emotionally fragile.
"Lori Drew decided to humiliate a child," U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien, chief federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, told the jury. "The only way she could harm this pretty little girl was with a computer. She chose to use a computer to hurt a little girl, and for four weeks she enjoyed it."
O'Brien said it was the nation's first cyberbullying trial.
But some legal experts have suggested that O'Brien overreached and that a conviction might not stand up on appeal.
Drew was not directly charged with causing Megan's death. Instead, prosecutors indicted her under the federal Computer Use and Fraud Act, which in the past has been used in hacking and trademark theft cases.
Among other things, Drew was charged with conspiring to violate the fine print in MySpace's terms-of-service agreement, which prohibits the use of phony names and harassment of other MySpace members.
"The rules are fairly simple," federal prosecutor Mark Krause said. "You don't lie. You don't pretend to be someone else. You don't use the site to harass others. They harassed Megan Meier."
Drew's lawyer, Dean Steward, contended his client had little to do with the content of the messages and was not at home when the final one was sent. Steward also argued that nobody reads the fine print on service agreements.
"How can you violate something when you haven't even read it?" Steward asked. "End of case."
Prosecutors said Drew, her then-13-year-old daughter Sarah and Drew's 18-year-old business assistant Ashley Grills set up the phony MySpace profile for a boy named "Josh Evans," posting a photo of a bare-chested boy with tousled brown hair. "Josh" then told Megan she was "sexi" and assured her, "i love you so much."
Grills allegedly sent the final, insulting message to Megan before she killed herself in the St. Louis suburb of Dardenne Prairie, Mo.
Missouri authorities said there was no state law under which Drew could be charged. But federal prosecutors in California claimed jurisdiction because MySpace is based in Beverly Hills.
Among the prosecution's witnesses was Megan's mother, Tina, who recounted finding her daughter hanging in a closet. Prosecutors also called some of Drew's friends and associates, who painted the defendant as cold and indifferent about the prank and the suicide.
Sarah Drew testified she never saw her mother use the MySpace account. But Grills, testifying under immunity from prosecution, said she saw Drew type at least one message under the name Josh Evans.
After the suicide, Missouri passed a law against cyber-harassment. Similar federal legislation has been proposed on Capitol Hill.

This Bi*ch is gonna get away with Murder! Unbelievable! Watch and see! She's probably gonna get some Bullsh*t Probation or nothing at all! Makes me sick!

[oldbat]

That just blows!!! They should have convicted her of anything and everything. To this day, I cannot understand why a grown woman would do something that despicable to hurt a teenage girl. I hope she thinks about that poor child every day of her life, and has nightmares about what she did until the day she dies.

[ken]

OB I agree they should have hung this lady out to dry for doing such a dispicable thing to a child.

I also have hopes that her soul beats her down for what she did tt Megan.