updated 15 minutes agoLOS ANGELES – A Los Angeles federal grand jury indicted a Missouri woman on Thursday for her alleged role in a MySpace online hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide.
Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis was indicted on one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress.
Drew allegedly helped create a false-identity MySpace account to contact neighbor Megan Meier who thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans.
Meier hanged herself in October 2006 after receiving cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her.
Drew, 49, has denied creating the account and sending messages to Megan.
MySpace is based in Beverly Hills.
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I am so glad this woman is getting into some kind of trouble, what a mean mean person.I hope they give her a lengthy prison sentance, she deserves it.
Well it is about time.
I was wondering if you had read that yet…I just got done reading the article myself.
Its about time they indict this woman! But of course she is innocent until proven guilty. Just keep that in mind.
I think it’s a tragedy that Lori is being charged. The young girl that killed herself was a horrible person that talked about Lori’s daughter behind her back.
Thank goodness! As all media is regulated, why shouldn’t the internet?! There need to be standards and practices. As well, being that MySpace is based in Beverly Hills, CA, this is the place exactly where the case should take place. May the immature and reckless Lori Drew rot in jail, and let her family feel the insurmountable pain that was inflicted upon Megan and her family. These girls were 13 — the first real year of their teen years… Lori had no place in this and was so reckless it lead to a death of a child… not another adult or young adult… a child. As far as I’m concerned, what she did was akin to rape — not only violation of body, but of mind…. and on a MINOR!!
Yes, it’s about time this incredibly mean woman can do such less-than-juvenile thing to a young teen, and to face some consequences. I guess she never grows up herself.
I’m glad words get out on the web on all about her. Harassment for the rest of her life is the least we, as a community, can do to sanction such horrible act.
to At All Costs:
There was no need for adults to intervene… Lori’s daughter should have walked away and disengaged in the friendship. I guess when one has a lunatic, moronic, and over meddling excuse of a mother, there’s no role model to display appropriate ways of behaving. Are you that stupid, too?!
Are you kidding me??!! So what if someone was talking behind my daughter’s back! Not in a million years would I do anything so incredibly immature and mean-spirited as what this hideous woman did to that girl! And how about the horrendous example she set for her own daughter? Get real and GROW UP!
I can not believe what (at all costs) said. I have to wonder if you aren’t involved in this cruelty in some way. Please think about the fact that you are speaking of a 13 year old child who took her life and can no longer defend herself against that kind of attack. Shame on you.
Maybe “AT all Costs” is Lori Drew in “disguise” or a Lori-wanna-be. Either way – GO AWAY!
At All Costs
I think it’s a tragedy that Lori is being charged. The young girl that killed herself was a horrible person that talked about Lori’s daughter behind her back.
What are you smoking? Lori is an adult. Megan was a teenage girl acting like a teenager. Maybe she said something mean about Drew’s daughter but it also appears that her daughter wasn’t innocent either. It is never excusable for an adult to deceive or humiliate a child like that. If Drew had a problem then she should have talked to Megan’s mom. That is a much more effective way of straightening out a teenager.
Teenage girls are very competitive and mean spirited. I guess when you have a mother who is the same way, there are no morals. What a shame this mother couldn’t have given her daughter guidance instead of conspiring with her to hurt another child. Maybe this is a lesson learned for Ms. Drew’s daughter. I sure hope so, because her mother was very, very wrong.