Eh, well, that’s what happens when you act all childish and manipulative. Real grown ups don’t want to do business with you.
This is a difficult case, however if I were the grieving parents I don’t think I’d be taking it out in Court because it is so difficult to prosecute. Of course, I’m from the South, so I’m thinking vigilante justice...Suicide is difficult at best to litigate...I say just socially smear the offending parties and run them out of town like child molesters and make sure that they can never settle anywhere, ever. Exile those vile parents. And ship the kid off to a lesbisan prison camp for life. Legally though, it will be difficult, however much they deserve to go to Hell.
"Drew stated in the months leading up to Meier's daughter's suicide, she instigated and monitored a myspace account which was created for the sole purpose of communicating with Meier's daughter. Drew said she, with the help of temporary employee named Ashley, constructed a profile of a good-looking male on myspace in order to find out 'what Megan was saying online' about her daughter. Drew explained the communication between the fake male profile and Megan was aimed at gaining Megan's confidence and finding out what Megan felt about her daughter and other people. Drew stated she, her daughter and Ashley all typed, read, and monitored the communication between the fake male profile and Megan. Drew went on to say the communication became 'sexual for a 13 year old'. Drew stated she continued the fake male profile despite this development."
Italics mine. More at The Smoking Gun.
Some related links:
No Charges in MySpace Suicide Case
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1934105/posts
Frontier justice in an online world? (MySpace suicide case)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1933444/posts
Megan Had It Coming (says woman who drove her to suicide)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1934284/posts
Parents of MySpace hoax victim seek justice [teen killed herself over hoax]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1928108/posts
Parents Say Online Bullies Caused Daughter’s Suicide
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928827/posts
Mother: Hoax on MySpace triggered daughter’s suicide
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1927480/posts
While I feel for Megan’s parents in their time of loss, I find it odd that they either failed to monitor the online activity of their daughter or didn’t object to the situation until after her suicide.
They are quick to claim that the other mother knew what was going on, but where were they? Did they really allow themselves to be so oblivious of their daughter’s online life despite knowing of her precarious mental state?
I find much of my sympathy for them waning in the face of what looks to me like an attempt to dodge their own parental responsibilities and obligations.
Hasn’t her story changed since she lawyered up?
Lies. According to stories I read earlier, she laughed about it and bragged to a neighbour girl (who following the suicide informed Megan’s parents), that she was going to “mess with Megan”, then after the suicide stated that she didn’t feel guilty about it because Megan had attempted suicide before (not true according to Megan’s mom.)
That’s not the story I read by her on her blog dated yesterday....
Don’t you start blaming megan’s mother. Megan’s MySpace activities were being closely monitored until the last minute. Read the background stories first before climbing your moral high ground. A despicable woman is alone responsible for a vulnerable teenager’s death!
I have just been accused of being a troll on my local paper forum where I was afraid to post for a long time. A local story made the Drudge Report and Fox News, heaven knows what else. I'm used to being flamed but I have to be honest and say that I never got hardened to it, so I don't post much and try to be very careful what I say so as not to tick anybody off. No matter how hard you try to parse your words, you are likely to make someone irate.
I won't post to my garden group any more because they have a section that is predominately libs. I stumbled onto it, and after reading hundreds of posts about how evil Bush & Republicans are, I said I thought Democrats were evil because they support abortion. That was the wrong move. It was awful the things most of them came back with. I shouldn't have said that even though, in my heart, that is what I believe. Then they outed me, found out where I live. Then someone put two and two together (similar screen names) and found my posts here and outed me about that.
I'm an adult. This girl was just a kid and a troubled one at that.
I wonder if other people were involved besides the Drews and Ashley Grills. If so, they too are going to be in the same shoe as them.
Contradictory statements.
Hmmmm. . .so this girl's daughter (who had been a friend of the girl who committed suicide), is doing secret things with an 18 year old, and the mother has no clue whatsoever? She's either lying or she's not the best mother in the world.