The Megan Meier story was such a sad one. A poor 13 year old girl committed suicide following taunts online. While Megan thought she was chatting with a 16 year old boy, she was in fact chatting with Lori Drew. Drew used the persona of Josh Evans to first befriend the young teen, and then increasingly became hostile in the exchanges.
Lori Drew of suburban St. Louis was indicted today on one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl.
Megan hung herself in her bedroom closet in October 2006, the fact that Lori Drew was the cause became public knowledge months ago. About the only surprise in this indictment is the length of time it has taken to bring it about.
Obviously indicting Lori Drew will not bring the little girl back, but this must be of some comfort to Megan’s family that justice will finally be served.
The conspiracy count carries a maximum penalty of five years in federal prison, as does each count of accessing protected computers. While it is unlikely that Lori Drew will receive the maximum sentence, but it would seem more than likely that she will be spending some time behind bars.
Simon Barrett
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI believe in free speech and EFF freedoms, so I hope this case is a “one-off.” Drew and her husband are two of the most loathsome creatures to ever walk the Earth. But I cannot understand or explain how or why the dead girl’s parents did not figure out that the cyber-boy was really a sock puppet. The mother
had in fact punished her daughter by taking her off of the Internet precisely because the girl and some friends had created a fake page.
The Josh character was so obviously phony that the phoniness screamed out at you.
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