Megan Meier

Don’t think for one moment that this is limited to kids on social networking sites. See more of the ongoing hatred here on Blogspot. Yes, it’s still going on . They want to “set the record straight”, they claim. Can you believe that? The way I see it is if there was no wrong done then what record is there to set straight? There is only one post on the blog entitled, ‘Megan Had It Coming.’ The single post is dated for November 18th, 2007. Coincidentally, Megan hung herself on November 16...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...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...Read Full Story

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...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...Read Full Story

  There will be no criminal charges against the mother who made up a MySpace page and pranked her daughter's classmate just before the killed herself. Regardless, the sick lady needs some help!! ST. LOUIS (AP) — People who sent cruel Internet messages to a 13-year-old girl before she committed suicide won't face criminal charges, a suburban St. Louis prosecutor announced Monday. St. Charles County prosecutor Jack Banas said that while he understands the public outrage over Megan Meier's...Read Full Story

Two years after Megan Meier committed suicide Lori Drew, age 49, was indicted for her alleged role in Meier’s death. In an earlier blog I wrote: In 2006 a Missouri teenager hanged herself after being rejected by a 16 year old boy she met on MySpace. Well, at least that’s what she thought. The reality was the “16 year old boy” was really the mother of one of the girls former friends. The motive? It seems the mother was allegedly trying to exact revenge on Meier, who had allegedly...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...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...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...Read Full Story