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 …
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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... 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... Read Full Story
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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... 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
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
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... 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
It would appear that the sad story of Megan Meier has finally come to an end. In July, we reported that a Federal judge had decided to reverse a jury’s decision and dismiss three charges of misdemeanor computer fraud against Lori Drew. Last Friday, Federal prosecutors decided not to appeal this decision , effectively ending the three-year case.
For those unfamiliar with the case, Drew had been on tria l for her involvement in helping her daughter use a fake MySpace account to bully the 13... Read Full Story
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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
