Megan Meier

Megan Meier Federal prosecutors said on Wednesday that a Missouri mother should serve three years in prison for her role in a MySpace hoax carried out on a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide. As we reported last year , Lori Drew is accused of pretending to be a teenage boy on MySpace in order to humiliate 13-year-old Megan Meier , who subsequently committed suicide. Lori Drew was convicted last November … Related articles by Zemanta Proposed “cyberbullying” House Bill is a serious threat to free speech (carlosmiller.com) Probation in MySpace-hoax suicide? (msnbc.msn.com) Probation, $5K Fine Urged in MySpace Suicide Case (wired.com) Probation For Mom ... Read Full Story

A Missouri mother faces up to three years in prison at her sentencing Thursday in Los Angeles for her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl who later killed herself. Lori Drew was convicted in November on three misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization. A defense motion to dismiss the convictions has received a lengthy review from U.S. District Judge George Wu, who delayed Drew's sentencing in May to review the testimony of two prosecution witnesses. Much attention has been paid to Drew's case, primarily because it was the nation's first cyberbullying trial. Prosecutors say Drew sought to humiliate ... Read Full Story

A defense attorney says prosecutors are the real bullies for seeking a stiff sentence against a Missouri mother once accused of scheming over the Internet to humiliate 13-year-old neighbor Megan Meier who later committed suicide. Lawyer Dean Steward represents Lori Drew, who is scheduled to be sentenced Monday in U.S. District Court after being convicted in November of three misdemeanor counts of accessing computers without authorization. Drew was found not guilty of the felony charge of intentionally causing emotional harm while accessing computers without authorization. The jury deadlocked on a felony conspiracy charge. Steward said in recent court documents that prosecutors were trying to ... Read Full Story

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A federal judge on Thursday tentatively dismissed the conviction of a suburban mother accused of driving a love-lorn 13-year-old girl to suicide by tormenting her with a fake MySpace persona. U.S. District Judge George Wu said during a hearing in a Los Angeles courtroom that prosecutors' application of a federal anti-hacking statute against the Missouri woman, Lori Drew, was selective and the law was unconstitutionally vague. In a high-profile cyber-bullying case that drew worldwide headlines, Drew was found guilty in November 2008 of three misdemeanor counts of accessing a protected computer without authorization. She was acquitted of more serious felony ... Read Full Story

Lori Drew, What’s your opinion of this case? Lori Drew, 49, was recently convicted of being a cyberbullying that lead to the suicide of a 13 year old girl. Lori Drew and two others created a fictitious MySpace account for a 16 year old boy and started flirting with Megan Meier. The account was in the name of Josh Evans. Apparently Lori Drew, her daughter and Ashley Gills, 19 an employee of a business Drew operated, was using the fictitious account to find out what Megan Meier was saying about her teenage daughter. As the prank continued, I think it was Ashley Gills that ... Read Full Story

Degenerate Neighboring Parents Harass Daughter’s Teen Friend On The Internet Pretty Megan Meier Beautiful little Megan Meir was driven to suicide via a sick online campaign fabricated by her friend’s 47-year-old mother, Lori Drew, to taunt and harass her, after both girls had a falling out. It is believed Drew’s husband participated in the harassment as well. The mother created an account on MySpace, for a made up 16-year-old boy that she dubbed Josh Evans. First she contacted Megan, befriending her on Myspace as the fictitious Josh Evans, then tried to psychologically decimate her by telling her horrible rumors were going around about her ... Read Full Story

Note: there was an error in the Megan Meier article yesterday that was not my doing. It has been corrected. There was also a removed link in the Madonna’s “Hard Candy” Receives Terrible Reviews . Unflattering Madonna links were also removed from my blog via hacking. I am still having trouble with the hacker from this case and I’m working to correct the damage. Sorry for the inconvenience. This is a follow up to the article 47 Year Old Female Neighbor Drives 13 Year Old Girl To Suicide . Lori Drew, the woman that drove 13-year-old Megan Meier to kill herself, has been indicted ... Read Full Story

Social networking and it’s pros and cons have been debated since the popularity of such sites as Myspace , Facebook and Twitter have increased and become part of the new Internet age. The Megan Meier’s story is particularly disturbing and has all the elements that are facilitating an adolescent epidemic of risk taking and poor judgment. To quickly sum up the Megan Meier’s story is difficult for there are many layers. It involves female friendships, parenting skills, MySpace, boys and very irresponsible adults. Megan Meier Megan apparently had a falling out with her close friend and neighbor and this neighbors mom Lori Drew was ... Read Full Story

Image via Wikipedia This woman deserves everything she gets. I hate bullies. You would think that a grown woman would act her age… ST. LOUIS — The mother of a girl who committed suicide at age 13 after being subjected to an Internet hoax says a woman’s conviction in the case shows that people who bully others online will face consequences. Lori Drew, 49, of O’Fallon, Mo., was convicted Wednesday in federal court in Los Angeles on misdemeanor charges of accessing computers without authorization in a landmark cyberbullying trial, though her lawyer said he still hopes a judge will dismiss the charges against her. ... Read Full Story

an obvious felony without conviction Jurors could not reach a verdict on a conspiracy count By John Charles Reedburg Very shameful. Los Angeles, CA — A jury has convicted a Missouri mother of lesser, misdemeanor crimes in the MySpace cyber-bullying case linked to a 13-year-old girl’s suicide. The Los Angeles federal court jury on Wednesday rejected felony charges of accessing a computer without authorization to inflict emotional distress on young MEGAN MEIER. However, the jury found defendant LORI DREW guilty of three counts of the lesser offense of accessing a computer without authorization. The jurors could not reach a verdict on a conspiracy count. ... Read Full Story