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US mom pleads not guilty in MySpace suicide case
Yahoo News ^ | June 16, 2008

Posted on 06/16/2008 7:50:14 PM PDT by khnyny

A 49-year-old woman pleaded not guilty to charges arising from her role in a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a fictitious boy. Lori Drew, 49, of Missouri, denied charges of conspiracy to inflict emotional distress and accessing MySpace computers without authorization. She will fact trial on July 29.

Prosecutors say Drew set up a fake account on the social networking site and posed, with others, as a 16-year-old boy "Josh Evans" to target a classmate of her teenage daughter, Megan Meier.

Meier hanged herself in October 2006, shortly after receiving a message from "Josh" saying amongst other things that he had no interest in a romantic relationship with her and would be better off without her.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News
KEYWORDS: internet; loridrew; meganmeier; msm; myspace; sociopath; suicide
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To: khnyny

A guy agrees with an opinion, and you actually think it is relevant that the opinion he agrees with has spelling and grammar errors?


21 posted on 06/16/2008 8:25:22 PM PDT by Arguendo
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To: xJones

Funny part is, the original article he posted has spelling errors in it, but he posted it anyway!


22 posted on 06/16/2008 8:28:23 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: southern rock

Admiral Boorda did the honorable thing. This woman totally disgusts me.


23 posted on 06/16/2008 8:29:34 PM PDT by jimfree (Freep and Ye shall find.)
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To: khnyny
Except maybe the charges themselves:

Lori Drew, 49, of Missouri, denied charges of conspiracy to inflict emotional distress...

24 posted on 06/16/2008 8:29:48 PM PDT by Arguendo
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To: southern rock

“This woman isnt guilty of a damn thing except using the internet. “

Creating a false identity to harass someone to the point of suicide, while living nearby to gauge the effect?

That would be a crime by mail or telephone, or maybe even telegraph.

This trial is important- how many of us here use a “false identity”?

Southern Rock, is that your real name, or are you committing fraud online?

Like I’m called DBrow in the meatworld, ha. DBrow(x) : DBcol(y).


27 posted on 06/16/2008 8:37:56 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: khnyny; southern rock
FR has been innundated recently with nonsense.

And bad spellers, it's inundated, not innudated. Spell check is your friend, try it sometime.

28 posted on 06/16/2008 8:38:16 PM PDT by xJones
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To: Morgana

L0L! Yes...its painful


29 posted on 06/16/2008 8:38:52 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Lijahsbubbe

No doubt. And setting a fine example.


30 posted on 06/16/2008 8:40:13 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: khnyny

Lori Drew is a seriously disturbed and dangerous woman. She needs to spend a few decades in a low-cost, state-run mental institution, given thorazine and made to sleep in a padded room.


31 posted on 06/16/2008 8:41:09 PM PDT by LiberConservative ("Typical" White Guy)
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To: PleaseNoMore

Its just bizzare. Was it a crime? Probably not.


32 posted on 06/16/2008 8:41:47 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: xJones; khnyny

LOL, nice catch. It’s always amusing when people like that pwn themselves.


33 posted on 06/16/2008 8:43:00 PM PDT by Arguendo
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To: khnyny

What are you the typing police?
Is that a crime to poindexter?


34 posted on 06/16/2008 8:43:37 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: DBrow
Southern Rock, is that your real name, or are you committing fraud online?

I guess I'm commiting fraud and harassment, cause that ain't the name my mamma gave me. Send some assclown prosecutor to file charges against me quick, so they can be "tough on crime" and fold their arms across their chest in all their photographs.

35 posted on 06/16/2008 8:44:19 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: khnyny
HEY, do you have a license for that internet you are using??

sorry :-)
36 posted on 06/16/2008 8:46:21 PM PDT by wafflehouse (RE-ELECT NO ONE !)
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To: PleaseNoMore

She could be prosecuted for harassment at best.


37 posted on 06/16/2008 8:51:00 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: Arguendo; mylife
Okay, I have two questions left in life; what is 'pwn' and what does poindexter have to do with anything?

I'm the standards cop, and I'm trying to write out tickets but at this rate I'll be issuing arrest warrents.:)

38 posted on 06/16/2008 8:59:11 PM PDT by xJones
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To: PleaseNoMore
I believe the parents of the young girl who died were remiss in their duties as parents in that they did not monitor their child's activities on the internet. Combine that with the fact the child had a history of some sort of mental or emotional problems; depression I think it was, and it's easy to see the parents should have paid closer attention to what was going on with their daughter. The mother who portrayed herself as a teen boy is pretty sick herself and needs some serious help herself.

This is where I am on it. The parents of the girl should have known more about what was going on. The 49-year-old is sick, but I don't think a murder charge is right. If this had been done with letters, or by phone, it would have probably brought a harassment charge, I think.

If the teenage girl was that susceptible, then she should have been monitored more closely, as almost anything could have set her off. To me, this is much like blaming murders on a video game.

39 posted on 06/16/2008 9:00:05 PM PDT by mavfin (Personal freedom, personal responsibility)
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To: southern rock

Why are you and others defending this woman? What’s your argument? What’s the defense? I’m an asshole who likes to prey on 13 year olds like R. Kelly, so I’m part of the group that likes to take advantage of and destroy kids too?


40 posted on 06/16/2008 9:00:25 PM PDT by khnyny (Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through temporary periods of joy)
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