MySpace Mom Indicted
Lori Drew was indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles today.
Who is Lori Drew?
Back in 2006, two thirteen-year-old girls, who had been friends their whole life, had a falling out. Lori Drew, the mother of one of those girls, decided to step in. She, along with a teenage co-worker in her store, decided to create a fake MySpace page for a sixteen-year-old boy named Josh Evans. Using this page, she befriended her daughter’s ex-friend, Megan Meier. Lori used this page to find out what Megan was saying about her daughter. Megan and “Josh” started an online romance. But then “Josh” decided he didn’t want to have a girlfriend who was mean and told Megan as much. In his last message to Megan he told Megan telling her the world would be a better place without her. Megan was devastated by the breakup and hung herself in her closet.
Previously the Missouri prosecutor (where the Drew’s and Meier’s live) said he couldn’t find a statute to charge Lori Drew with. But the federal grand jury in Los Angeles thinks differently. They have indicted her on charges of conspiracy and accessing protected computers to obtain information to inflict emotional distress. She faces up to 20 years in prison.
How do you feel about this new development? Do you think Lori Drew should be held accountable? Should it be illegal for adults to bully teenagers on the internet?
I was thrilled when I saw the news report that Lori Drew has been indicted for the crime committed against Megan. It’s about time!
It is despicable when children and teens bully each other online or offline, and to discover that a parent is responsible for cyber bullying and harrassing Megan, causing her great emotional distress and bringing Megan to the point of suicide is definitely something Lori should be held accountable for.
Lori’s actions caused a life sentence to Megan’s family, now without their daughter forever. Lori should be held accountable to the fullest extent of the law.
Heck yeah I think she should be held accountable. She directly contributed to that girl’s death. I say it’s “depraved indifference” (I learned that on Law & Order). The legal definition of depraved indifference is “conduct so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime”. This woman’s actions were dispicable.
Absolutely she should be held accoutable. This wasn’t a case where someone impulsively did or said something to hurt or bully another person. This ADULT woman concocted an elaborate plan to hurt a fragile adolescent. She conspired to commit fraud and inflict harm over the course of many months.
Even if the young girl had not hung herself, what Lori Drew did was legally wrong and morally reprehensible.
Absolutely hold her responsible. To hurt this girl in such a premeditated manner is “evil”. An adult who would spend hours plotting and manipulating a kid to purposely cause mental anguish is a real sociopath. What kind of a mother has she been. Lock her up.
she is one crazy bitch but should we let her hang for 20 years?