For omkring et år siden indledte den amerikanske teenage-pige Megan Meier via MySpace et online forhold til en anden bruger, der gik under navnet Josh Evans. Forholdet varede i 6 turbulente uger og den afsluttende sætning i kommunikationen mellem de to, kom fra Josh, der skrev til Megan at “Verden ville være et bedre sted uden dig!” - hvorefter Megan Meier tilsyneladende tog sit eget liv. Twisten i historien er imidlertid at Josh Evans var en opdigtet person - opfundet af een af Megan Meiers... Read Full Story
This is a long article, but it gives a complete history of the Megan Meier tragedy. Quotes and Story about Megan Meieir and her parents The entire story is depressing. How sad that kids tormented this young girl via MySpace and pushed her to the brink, and behond the brink. Read Full Story
Lori Drew , a 49-year-old mother from Missouri, was indicted Thursday for allegedly creating a fake MySpace account to torment a 13-year-old girl, who later committed suicide. Drew, allegedly created the false account to find out if Megan Meier , an ex-friend of her daughter's, was talking about her. Meier believed she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans, in reality Drew was allegedly pretending to be the boy. After receiving cruel messages from Evans, including one that... Read Full Story
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Although she wanted felony convictions, the mother of a girl who killed herself in a MySpace hoax says she hopes the case will serve as a deterrent to cyber-bullies.
"This has been a victory," Tina Meier, the 38-year-old mother of Megan Meier, told reporters Wednesday after a jury found her former neighbor, Lori Drew, guilty of three misdemeanors for posing as a 16-year-boy flirting online with Megan.
Meier, whose 13-year-old daughter hung herself after the fictional boy... Read Full Story
By LINDA DEUTSCH
AP Special Correspondent
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ Lori Drew garnered headlines after being painted as a vindictive mother whose online actions allegedly led to a 13-year-old girl’s suicide.
But when jury selection begins Tuesday in a Los Angeles federal courtroom, a judge said he would instruct jurors that the case is about whether the 49-year-old Missouri mother violated the terms of service of the MySpace social networking site, not about whether she caused the suicide 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
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Lori Drew, 49, who used a fake MySpace identity to taunt 13-year-old Megan Meier, was convicted yesterday of computer fraud. Meier killed herself after being bullied online by 16-year old “Josh,” who turned out to be a sockpuppet created by Drew to humiliate her. Jurors aquitted her of felony charges and were deadlocked on a conspiracy... Read Full Story
The days of creating a fake username so that you can surf the Web anonymously may be over. Yesterday saw the conclusion of one of the most prominent legal cases ever dealing with privacy and identity issues on the internet - the Lori Drew case . Basically, Lori Drew was an overprotective mom who established a fake online identity to bully her daughter's rival. She created a MySpace account under the name "Josh Evans" and bullied the 13-year-old Megan Meier so relentlessly that it directly led... Read Full Story
First off, I personally think Lori Drew should fry in hell. What in the world was she thinking creating a fake profile on MySpace? She posed as a teen boy on MySpace, to lure a 13 year old teen Megan Meier, into a “virtual” relationship. Lori Drew was the mother of Sarah, a former friend [...] Read Full Story
By GREG RISLING
Associated Press Writer
LOS ANGELES (AP) _ A Missouri woman knew her 13-year-old neighbor was depressed and suicidal when she sent cruel Internet messages to the teenager, her former assistant testified. The girl killed herself after being told the world would be better off without her.
Ashley Grills, 20, told jurors Thursday she helped Lori Drew set up a fake MySpace profile of a 16-year-old boy to lure Megan Meier into an online relationship. Testifying for the... Read Full Story
