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Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case
longacre writes "The Associated Press is reporting an indictment has been handed down in the sad case of Megan Meier, the girl who committed suicide after receiving upsetting MySpace messages from someone she perceived to be her boyfriend. It was later determined the boy, Josh Evans, was a fictitious identity created by a neighbor of Meier's family. Lori Drew, of a St. Louis suburb, has been charged with 'one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to get information used to inflict emotional distress on the girl.' Interestingly, despite the alleged crime having occurred strictly in Missouri, the case was investigated by the FBI's St. Louis and Los Angeles field offices, and the trial will be held in Los Angeles, home of MySpace's servers. Wired is running a related story about the potentially 'scary' precedent this case could set."
MURDER? Are you insane?
"When I first heard Daydream Nation it quite frankly scared the living shit out of me." -- Matthew Stearns
Don't be rediculous. I had real life friends who turned around and stabbed me in the back and did nasty things to me. When i was 14 I was calling up chat boards, going on irc channels and i knew damn well and good without anyone telling me that people whom i didn't know and couldn't talk face to face were strangers or at best pen pals.
What happened here was darwinism at it's best. This child ended her own life. No one else did. Don't play some emotional crap and say it was the fault of that disgusting woman who should of known better. It was not her fault that the kid committed suicide. The kid had to take responsibility and no one else. That's what suicide is.
"the girl who committed suicide after receiving upsetting MySpace messages from someone she perceived to be her boyfriend" If a myspace message causes you to kill yourself, I'm guessing that you were not destine to be a rocket scientist or brain surgeon. The parents should thank the woman for relieving them of this overly emotional burden.
-Cnik
http://meganhaditcoming.blogspot.com/
This is a blog that is about to be taken down and it described why the woman did what she did. I don't think that this case is as black and white as some people think.
Once in a while I resume reading Slashdot. And then I get comments like yours that make me realize why I stop reading and posting there. Did you read my comment? Did I say anything about who is right and who is wrong? I stated that there was a blog where the mom posted her side of the story. Is it true? I don't know. Is it false? I don't know.