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Woman Is Indicted in Missouri MySpace Suicide Case
Jury indicts woman for alleged role in MySpace online hoax played on girl who committed suicide
By LINDA DEUTSCH AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES May 15, 2008 (AP)

A federal grand jury on Thursday indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in perpetrating a MySpace online hoax on a 13-year-old neighbor girl who committed suicide.

Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl.

Drew 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.”

Megan hanged herself at home in October 2006 after receiving cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her.

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This sad case has now federal implications. The most hated woman in America, Lori Drew, is now indicted by a grand jury in California. Everything that went wrong did go wrong in this case. A mixture of immaturity, envy, petty squabbles, and revenge came together in the worst shape and form. Lori Drew epitomizes all those.

Lori Drew did this because her daughter Sarah was not friends with Megan Meier. Seriously, why would a mother need to get this involved in their daughter’s life? If she just left it alone, than Sarah would be friends with Megan again. It is typical middle school life. We can all relate to that since we were all 13 at one point in our life.

Frankly, why would a parent get involved like this? A woman who was college educated, owned a once successful business, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce. One would think she would not get involved in this. Perhaps she is immature and got her jollies bullying other people around. She had no business to be involved. Sometimes, I think there were things that could of drove Lori Drew to do this. Based on accounts I have read, she is described as an envious woman and had issues with the Meiers, especially the fact that they sent Megan to a private school.

Some of the charges I have issues with, especially the hacking aspect of it. However, the conspiracy charges are what I agree with. She did conspire to something illegal. Also, there could be the issue sexual crimes because she admitted that the messages were sexual in nature. In addition, there are stalking and harssment charges that were not included. Last time I checked it was illegal. They should of watched Dateline: To Catch A Predator With Chris Hansen.

The Internet is new technology, but it is no different from the street. Sure, you are anonymous, which is really a misnomer because IP addresses can be traced. Having a screen name on the Internet is like pseudonym on a book or radio show. This case will be very interesting to follow for the summer.

Also, anyone who blames the Meiers need to have their heads examined. They are just sick and bad as Lori Drew. They are wrong to even say that. It is like blaming the victim, you know like those morons who like to blame America for 9/11. Megan could of just went to the library or a friend’s house and accesses My Space there without her parents even knowing it. Anyways they are really a small minority and they will get thrown under the bus for it, which deserve rightfully so. In addition, a 13 year old girl is different from an adult, which you cannot compare the two. Also, they have nothing to back it up with, which shows they have no legs to stand on. I like to think of them as enablers of evil. They too should rot in Hell alongside with Lori Drew.

The ultimate outcome regardless of guilt or not is she will have to answer to God. God does not look too kindly to scum like her. Lori Drew will be in Hell for eternity. It will be her new home and she will get new neighbors like Joseph Stalin, 9/11 Hijackers, Countess Elizabeth Bathory, and all those evil people history has seen.