[Between the Lines]

Do Curt and Lori Drew deserve this harassment? Or are they just reaping what they have sown?

[Verloona Ti]

On another website, a poster made a good point : He said that he was a 42 year old man, and if he had created a fictitious 16 year old boy's persona and used it to send mildly flirtatious e mails to a 13 year old girl-they wouldn't have hesitated to charge him with something, regardless of his motive for doing so. Why should Lori Drew skate, just because of her genitalia and her "I was trying to protect my chiiiillldd !" BS?

Has anyone ever answered the question, why has the "Have a shitty rest of your life" message disappeared? Apparently all the rest of the messages sent between Josh and Megan, and the other kids' pile-on messages have all been retrieved...But not that one. This, even though CEOs of major corporations and politicians have THOUGHT they made online messages unretrievable, only to be proven wrong. So why is the only proof that message was ever sent Megan's father's word?

I may be wrong, but I think the message may never have existed. The father made it up back when everyone thought Josh Evans was a real 16 year old boy. He thought that message may have been enough to get Josh arrested. He was wrong (even if Josh had been real, perhaps) and if this case goes to court, if that message never existed it will be proven to be a nonexistent message. And that may strike a jury the wrong way. Even in a civil case, I don't know as a jury would be inclined to back up even a grieving parent for making up something , in so serious a case.

I could be wrong; maybe the message DID exist and there's some valid reason why it hasn't been retrieved from anywhere, but that whole business strikes me as very strange.

The Drews are despicable people. But even more tragic than Megan's death would be if her case is used to put the internet under the control of the people who really hate how the internet has eroded their power , especially since they no longer control the news. These people are evil, and they will not hesitate to use a dead child and two grieving parents to take back the power they feel is theirs rightfully.

[Centurion2000]

Just a brick and a paintball? They are lucky it’s not shotgun slugs, AP rifle rounds and molotov cocktails.

[VOA]

bump

[truth_seeker]

By researching, I found out the subject email was in Oct. 2006. I found that Curt Drew has been fired from his real estate job, and that Lori Drew’s business has closed, due to her clients unified withdrawal of business.

So now in Nov. 2007 the internet is all lit up, but is NOT up to date.

[mware]

I think sending them to Coventry would be appropriate.(ie. no one speak to them.) Let them go on with their lives knowing that they egged on a child to destroy herself.

If they have a conscience the memory of what they did will live with them for the rest of their lives.

[DocRock]

Bookmarked to show my kids....

[tutstar]

'My Space' hoax ends with suicide of Dardenne Prairie teen

Read it, see what the woman said to Megan.

[cherry]

to do this to a young person is EVIL....pure evil....

I don't wish them harm but they deserve to be scared out of their wits over this....

[Ptarmigan]

Here's a vile blog written by someone who will only identify herself as Kristen. However, it turns out, it is the daughter of Lori Drew. The blog gets nasty responses. Also, there was another accomplice who has been named as a 19 year old, Ashley Grills.

Vile Blog

Net harassment now a crime