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- May 15, 2008 — 08:37 PM PDT — by —
Well, it turns out that it just might be illegal to impersonate someone on MySpace and crush a teenage girl’s spirit so much that she ends up hanging herself.
Just when you thought the saga of Megan Meier was over with and the villain was going to get off free and clear, the culprit Lori Drew has been indicted on charges that could lead her to as much as 20 years imprisonment. Certainly no one can disagree that what Ms. Drew did was evil, at worst, and downright scummy at best.
The problem here is that the charges, at this point, are pretty flimsy at best. The charges filed, according to the LA Times, are “three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl and one count of conspiracy.” Add to that the fact that the case is being tried far outside the jurisdiction of the Missouri town where the incidents took place, and the government is going to have a very hard time bringing this case to term.
Only in the biggest stretch in the sense of the word can you call MySpace a protected system, especially when what all Drew did was click on a very prominent sign-up button, and then enter false information for the personal data.
It also calls into question First Amendment rights - how exactly do you define what sort of speech is designed to “inflict emotional distress,” and which sort of speech is designed to simply put those Steve Jobs-worshipping trolls on the VistaFan forums in their place?
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If this were a 49 year old MALE who had done this to a minor female child, would you still think it's not punishable?
I was hoping Drew would be indicted as a pedophile since she spent weeks discussing sex with this minor child.
I agree that Drew has some serious mental problems, but that doesn't mean she deserved to go away for two decades.
Pretty sick that you think that, but if it was your kid, your niece, your nephew, you would feel differently. Sure they need to monitor their child, but when you were 13, would you let your parents do that? Never. And Drew deserves to be in jail, an eye for an eye. She's an old woman who has nothing better to do than to mess with some kids emotions, because HER kid lost a friend. She's 49, and knows what it was like to be that age, and how girls are. What she SHOULDN'T have done was act like another 13 year old girl, and drive an emotional 13 year old to kill herself.
EVERY teenager has emotions that are that of a rollercoaster... add depression and any kinds of emotional distress, than you have a problem.
My question to you is, you honestly think that this woman deserves to stay out of jail? Plus she said some pretty graphic things to this girl, and that's pretty twisted to begin with. I think at worst they should put her away, if my mom had ever gotten that involved in my personal life when I was that age I would probably die of embarassment. Drew is not taking in consideration, what if HER child had this done to her. What if HER child killed herself. She doesn't care, and denies it all because she is heartless and is probably one of those mothers puts their child on a pedastal, and how dare megan NOT be friends with her kid right??? Come on....
This definitely will end up being a lifetime movie.
Hmm, if I date a crazy goth girl and tell her she's extremely hot, get what I want and tell her to jump off a bridge afterwards because she sucks, that's legal. Because she knows who I am.
I think psychiatrists or other fiduciary types might get in trouble under the second scenario but that's about it.
Megan hanged herself after she received several mean messages from the fictional boy.
A Nov. 11 story in the Suburban Journal about Megan's death exploded into a national, then international, story. As a result, Lori Drew became the target of widespread cyberspace harassment. Personal information, such as her cell-phone number, which she had used for 10 years, appeared on Internet sites.
No criminal charges have been filed in connection to Megan's death but the Los Angeles Times reported last month that a grand jury is looking at whether Drew defrauded MySpace, which is based near Los Angeles.
Beitongyujue the Megane family Kuxun perpetrators few days without results, but in almost want to give up, a small dark green card be sent to the local police. "Megane family of neighbors Luoli. Drew, she may know who the perpetrators in the end."
Police in accordance with this card, Shuntengmogua quickly put Lori• Drew and their associates Clean Sweep. It is reported that Lori Shichuyouyin did: she and the victim had fornication Megan's father, after his father abandoned; What she is angry hard-ping, she has a positive adolescent daughters, Megan and the victim was a friend , And later the two girls falling out. What Lori is burned in anger, she found Megan in the social networking site MySpace insulted her daughter.
It is inconceivable that is: to report to the police Lori. Drew, and even her own daughter Sarah! The 15-year-old girl occasionally discovered the secret of the mother, that her name Josh • Evans, contacted Megan through her page on MySpace.com,and then said :He love her.
May 15, 2008, Sarah has the burden of proof in court, the mother of crime. She said Why doing that was to save her mother, What is more important is:she felt missed her friend Megan……