Lori Drew

written by Affrodite (a freelance journalist/blogger), affrodite.net (photo of suicide victim Megan Meiers) The story of 13 year old Megan Meier's suicide from O'Fallon, Missouri as the result of cyber bullying by 3 main conspirators (a parent, her 13 year old daughter and a 19 year old female co-worker) who befriended Megan on MySpace under the fictitious identity of a 16 year old boy named Josh Evans raises more questions than answers. As parents, how far is too far when...Read Full Story

A Los Angeles judge has delayed the sentencing of Lori Drew, the Missouri woman who orchestrated an elaborate MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor who ended up committing suicide. On Monday, U.S. District Judge George Wu rescheduled Lori Drew’s sentencing to July 2. The judge wants more time to review the testimony from prosecution witnesses. He did not rule on a motion presented by the defense to dismiss Drew’s convictions on three misdemeanor counts of accessing computers...Read Full Story

Her name was Megan Meier and she was just 13 years old. Megan Meier I’m sure many of you have heard something about what I’m talking about here. The 2006 Myspace suicide and the ensuing court case . Though how many of you knew the little girl’s name? I didn’t. Not until a few days ago when I was reading about the outcome of the trial . And for those of you completely in the dark, here’s a short summary: Megan , and a girl named Sarah Drew , were longtime friends and neighbors, living...Read Full Story

Personally, this woman should have been convicted of murder... Her actions were immoral, unethical, incomprehensible, emotionally abusive and led to someone's death. I hope the public humiliation and hopefully jail time and restitution (even though no amount will bring this family's daughter back) will teach her and others a lesson. Having been the brunt of similar cruelty for speaking truth, I can only hope Drew cleans up her act. Though I doubt it. I wouldn't treat an animal that way. If...Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia What does that mean for the rest of us, given that few of us read let alone understand EULA’s or Terms of Service (TOS) for many of the web sites that we interact with on a daily basis. I am ambivalent on this one, while she dodged the legal felony; it is good and bad for all of us who interact with web 2.0 in one form or another. I cannot help but think back to the controversy about the Google Chrome EULA that basically allowed Google to own everything you did through...Read Full Story

The world would be a better place without you. I can never remember something of that kind being said to me. A statement of that kind really hurts. It hurts more if someone whom you love a lot says that. And a statement of that kind made Megan to part away from her life. She believed in something that was virtual and fake. WHO WERE THE PEOPLE CONCERNED? Megan Meier: The teenage girl who committed suicide. Tina Meier: Megan’s mother. Ron: Megan’s father. Sarah Drew: Megan’s friend. Lori...Read Full Story

Pogo was right-- we have met the enemy and he is us . The enemy is not George Bush , Rick Santorum , the NSA , CIA , or any of the shady government agencies that spy on us, and desire to be our electronic babysitters. Usually the government storm troopers only jump in because we demand it. There is some awful incident that involves something like the Internet , and we invite in the long dick of the law. Most recently, there is the sad case of the thirteen year old girl who hung herself when...Read Full Story

Image by via CrunchBase LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The suicide of a Missouri teen could have been avoided had she not been tormented online by a mom who lived a few houses away, prosecutors said on Monday, describing the girl’s death as a tragedy. The jury will begin deliberating on Tuesday in the federal case against Missouri woman Lori Drew, who is accused of posing as a teen boy on the MySpace social networking website to tease and humiliate 13-year-old Megan Meier, who later committed...Read Full Story

Associated Press Video Highlights:  A federal judge on threw out the convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who ended up committing suicide. The judge decision Monday made the ruling final. See Video Below A judge has finalized his decision to throw out convictions of a Missouri mother for her role in an Internet hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who committed suicide. U.S. District Judge George Wu said in his...Read Full Story

The MySpace suicide case had been the landmark first prosecution over accusations of cyber-bullying. Megan Meier, from Darden Priarie,  Missouri, was the victim of cyber-bullying.  She took it hard and killed herself three years ago after receiving a string of nasty messages from an online male friend. When police investigated they found that the bully’s identity was a hoax operated by a 50 year woman named Lori Drew - the mother of another teenager who had been friends with Meier...Read Full Story