Parry's Blog and Podcast (Free subscription) | yesterday
Saturday, May 17, 2008Now you can take the megan pledge against cyberbullying, in honor of Megan Meier! Labels: , , , , , ,
Smashed Frog (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
What pathology stirred Lori Drew - -a mother herself-- to assume an identity to target and methodically "break" fragile Megan Meier ? We will soon find out. Drew was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of fraudulently gaining access to someone else's computer. Each count carries a penalty of four to five years in prison, meaning Drew could face up to twenty years. Drew...
The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
The indictment charged Lori Drew of O'Fallon, Mo., with three counts of obtaining protected information used to cause emotional distress to Megan Meier and one count of conspiracy, the Los Angeles Times reported. Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles took on the case on the theory that Drew defrauded MySpace, based in Beverly Hills, Calif., when she pretended to be someone else online.
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
... pretending to be Josh Evans, a fake MySpace user, in a hoax which led to the death of 13-year-old Megan Meier. ‘Evans’ cruelly taunted Megan, who later hanged herself in her bedroom closet. “I feel it is time to speak out about this tragic affair,” said the supposed Lori Drew blog last year. “I cannot count on any media organization to fairly represent my story, as they have...
DBKP (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
47 DBKP stories on the Megan Meier MySpace Suicide, hoaxer Lori Drew, Drew's employee, Ashley Grills, and the Megan Had it Coming blog, as well as videos. Also includes related DBKP stories.
Mashable (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
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 [...]
Sky News (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
A 49-year-old woman accused of using a fake MySpace account that prompted the suicide of a 13-year-old girl has been charged with conspiracy.
Law Librarian Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Lori Drew was indicted on Thursday for her alleged role in a hoax on MySpace directed at Megan Meier, a 13-year-old neighbor of Drew's who committed suicide in October 2006 after a "boy" she met on MySpace abruptly turned on...
LA Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Megan Meier, 13, hanged herself in 2006. A neighbor's mother was indicted in Los Angeles on Thursday in the case. Responding to the suicide of a Missouri teenager who was teased over the Internet, state lawmakers Friday gave final approval to a bill making cyber-harassment illegal.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Ben Spencer A NEIGHBOUR of a teenager who killed herself after being bullied online has been charged over her death. Lori Drew, 49, is alleged to have pretended to be a schoolboy whose messages to Megan Meier, 13, on MySpace turned nasty.
ThinkingShift (Free subscription) | yesterday
I’m sure you've all heard about the shocking case of Megan Meier, the poor 13 year old American teenager driven to commit suicide. If you've been living on Pluto (demoted as it is) and missed hearing about this tragedy, go here. But to give this post some context, we’ll need some background details. Megan was cyberbullied, [...]
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Lee News Service ST. LOUIS - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned an indictment Thursday against Lori Drew of O'Fallon, Mo., in the MySpace case that ended in the suicide of Megan Meier.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Robert Patrick and Joel Currier, St. Louis Post-Dispatch May 16--For the parents of Megan Meier, the criminal charges handed down in California were a validation, finally, that their daughter's suicide deserved justice.
hitting metal with a hammer (Free subscription) | yesterday
At long last it looks like Megan Meier might get a tiny little bit of justice in compensation for her far too short life. Megan's mother, Tina Meier, told The Associated Press she believed media reports and public outrage helped move the case forward for prosecution. Yeah that was us, the good old bloggers who go angry [...]
Babble.com (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Remember Lori Drew? How about Megan Meier? Megan, a thirteen-year-old, hung herself after her MySpace boyfriend, Josh, cruelly dumped her. This itself would be bad enough, but the real ugly part is that Josh didn't exist. He was the creation of Lori Drew, who was Megan's neighbor and the mother of a girl Megan was once friends with. Drew, with the aid of a nineteen-year-old...
