As I was reading this morning, I came across this article here online. Lori Drew is once again in the news. Recently, her case was dismissed in a Los Angeles Court which enraged me. It only set a precedence for more cases such as this and the fact that people will get away with online impersonations as she has done. I have feel strongly that social justice was not sought in this case. The Meier family will never have Megan again thanks to this woman. Yet she gets to go home and continue to watch her own daughter grow into adulthood. She has yet to pay for what she has done to the Meier family. An apology would be nice but appears that this is not going to happen.
According to recent events, Ms. Drew is asking to use the internet again as she recently got a job offer that would require her to use it at work. Since June of 2008, she had been banned from going online. Evidently, the woman has moved to an undisclosed state and found possible employment.
Folks, I DO have a problem with this. For starters, this woman took the life of a young girl who suffered from clinical depression by using the internet. She manipulated, plotted and set up a fake account as a 16 year old boy named Josh. As most abusers do, she showed her cruel streak and Josh turned against Megan which led to Megan committing bullycide. This woman was well aware of the fact that Megan was vulnerable, clinically depressed and knew her weak spots. After Megan died, she had the nerve to ask the Meier family to keep a game for her that she was giving someone for Christmas. No admission, apology or any of that. She behaved as if nothing was ever wrong. If you ask me, this is scary behavior.
As Mrs. Drew was not punished or held accountable for her crimes or Megan’s death, who is to say she is not going to go back online and pull this stunt on another child that her daughter may be feuding with? As she expressed no remorse or apology for Megan, who is to say she has changed or learned anything? MySpace is still in existence and is still a online hangout for teens. People who have internet access at their jobs are always sneaking peeks at their email or coming on places to chat like Facebook or Twitter. It does not appear she has learned a lesson the first time around and the fact that she may be going online again is scary.
I understand Mrs. Drew has to work so she can care for her family. However, I do not trust her whatsoever when it comes to the internet. She has proven that she cannot behave responsibly online and will repeat these same behaviors because she knows she will not be punished for her actions. That was the lesson that was learned the first time around.
Elizabeth Bennett is the author of Peer Abuse Know More! Bullying From a Psychological Perspective. Please visit Peer Abuse Know More to learn more.
32 users commented in " Oh No! Lori Drew is Back! "
Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackI think I know how angry the Meier family feels. My only son committed suicide after his girlfriend broke up with him and his mother told him she was glad because he was a terrible boyfriend. His mother didn’t attend his funeral and has never visited his grave. My ex-wife and Ms. Drew will have to answer to a higher power some day soon. Until then, I’ll keep my son’s memory in my heart. I hope the Meier family can keep Megan in their hearts and that this will give them peace.
Since some court somewhere had the basic common sense to ban this horrid woman from the internet – the VERY LEAST that could be done considering her actions – then I think that decision should stand!
Lori Drew can darn well waitress for a living or get a job cleaning offices. She should NOT have access to the internet! And that’s that!
Ms Bennett do you know who/where we could write to share our opinions and outrage and hope that we are heard so Lori doesn’t get what she wants AGAIN?
Tx-Rancher, I’m sorry for your terrible loss. They will have to answer to a higher power. I feel that Lori Drew got off way to easy. I was left speechless when I heard what she got. So sad!
I hope Lori Drew gets fired!!!!
She needs to use the internet for a job. It’s the only way she can apply for that job at the Kevorkian Clinic.
Justice was denied the Meier family but – hopefully – Lori Drew will never escape what she has done. It’s perplexing to me WHO would want to hire this woman however I have no doubt that her new employer will be “outed” eventually and pressured to fire her. The internet – which she used as a weapon against Megan – will most certainly be her undoing. Her reprehensible actions will stay documented online forever.
First off, thanks everyone for taking the time to read my blog and to reply. It is now confirmed that Mrs. Drew will be allowed to go online again. Allowing this woman back online is like handing a serial killer a loaded gun.
Tx_Rancher, my sincere condolences to you and your family on the loss of your son. I am so sorry you had to go through that…..
If she is going back online, maybe everyone should ban together and giver her a taste of her own soup. Bully her to death.
Who would hire Lori Drew to begin with? That’s asking for trouble right there. If it was a large corporation, they will have a PR nightmare. I wonder if she is hired by the Westboro Baptist Church by any chance? She look like Fred Phelps, the leader of the abhorrent cult.
If Lori Drew had been an on line pervert looking to lure kids into her power, would this have even been an issue of her ever getting on line again. But here she is, so ridiculously immature and living vicariously through her child that she actually drives another child to suicide- and she doesn’t even care- but we are going to let HER have access to the internet again.WARNING—-ALL PARENTS THAT HAVE CHILDREN THAT MIGHT HAVE CIONTACT WITH DREW OR HER CRAZY FAMILY SHUT YOUR KIDS COMPUTERS OFF !!! This person is a total nut case. Evil and stupid, what a combination.
How this women looks at herself in the mirror everyday is an amazement.
Karma is a B*^$h- she needs to show some remorse for the horrible things she’s done.
It’s pretty pathetic that Lori Drew will be allowed to use the Internet again (not like she didn’t use it while she wasn’t suppose to!) I wonder how her new neighbors feel in ?. I also wonder why a company like ? would continue to keep someone like ? employed after all of this time and even transfer his to the ? location? I guess that shows what type of company they run.
Also, has anyone wondered what company would ever hire Lori Drew? Can you imagine taking your children to the doctors office or any office for that matter and having that bitch help you . . . I don’t know if I would run or beat the shit out of her first?
I don’t know what this world has came to that no one feels as though they have to be held accountable for their actions, but it’s the world be live in today . . . HOW SAD!
Freedom23 – Unfortunately some people are taught from the time they are children that they are not accountable for their actions. For example, there is an article on wftv.com today about a 13 year old girl who has a MySpace page with lots of sexy photos (bathing suit type) of herself and claims that she’d 19 and divorced. (I would believe it from the photos). So this guy asks her out (he’s about 22), they date, they have sex, then he finds out she’s 13. So he went to the girl’s father and told him. The girl’s father had him arrested. And he’s not the first guy this happened to. Another guy is in jail, labelled a sex offender for life for the same thing. And now the 2nd guy is going to jail. Meanwhile the girl’s MySpace page is still up.
Is anyone – including the court – going to hold this girl accountable for HER lies? Bother to teach her anything? Doesn’t look like it to me. This girl is learning that lying and sleeping around and wrecking peoples’ lives is FUN!
“Folks, I DO have a problem with this. For starters, this woman took the life of a young girl who suffered from clinical depression by using the internet. She manipulated, plotted and set up a fake account as a 16 year old boy named Josh. As most abusers do, she showed her cruel streak and Josh turned against Megan which led to Megan committing bullycide.”
I hate to let facts intrude on your rant, but the fact is, she never sent any of the messages. Her daughter, an employee, and several of her daughter’s friends sent the messages.
It was the employee’s suggestion to set up the account, based on the fact that Megan and Lori’s daughter had set up a fake account the year previously. And because the employee told both of them that Megan was sending around lies about Lori’s daughter, and they wanted to trap her in the lies.
It was the employee that sent the most hurtful messages, but this was following a pretty ugly word fight that began with Megan and that ended up attracting people from all over. As these things do.
Lori Drew was guilty of being thoughtless, and petty, but not of driving Megan to suicide. Megan should never have had a MySpace account, and her parents should never have let a strange boy contact her and become her friend. And the kids? Well, the kids were cruel. But you know, kids are cruel online, that’s why parents have to be sure their kids can handle the environment. That’s also why many parents won’t let them “friend” anyone they don’t know.
A lot of people helped generate the circumstances that led to Megan killing herself, including her own parents, the kids, Lori Drew’s employee, Ashley Grills, Lori Drew, society as a whole, and her doctor for prescribing her anti-depression pills (when they aggravate teen suicide). In the end though, no one “murdered” Megan. She took her own life like many kids unfortunately do.
So next time, sprinkle a few facts over your rant.
And unless you want to be responsible for a witch hunt, I would suggest you edit Freedom23’s comment to remove the location information.
Unless you condone anonymous people trying to get people hurt by using your comments. Then that would make you kind of a hypocrite, wouldn’t it?
Um Shelley, first off, I did edit Freedom 23’s comments. I can agree with you there, that info should be kept confidential. But our agreement ends at that point.
I do not need to explain myself to you and I am hardly a hypocrite. We all have a right to our opinions. No need to call any witch hunt. Have a good weekend…..
I said unless you condone anonymous people trying to use your comments to instigate witch hunts. Since you edited the comments after I made mine, the point is moot.
Shelley- Are YOU Lori? Or a relative by any chance? I see nothing about Lori Drew’s actions (or her co-horts) to defend.
But oh yeah, let’s blame an already suffering ill teenager for everything. I hope you keep hiding, Lori, because you know what they say about “the hounds from hell….”
Thank you again everyone for reading the blog. I appreciate it. Have a good week 🙂
Anyone who defends Lori Drew is in the same league with people who think Eric Harris/Dylan Klebold was justified in attacking Columbine High School because they were bullied (they were not by the way) or Osama bin Laden attacked New York, Arlington, and Shanksville because America was imperialist (another lie from Al-Qaeda). They are the kind of people who sympathize with mass murderers and serial killers. They are just as bad as the criminal themselves.
Drew thought the same way too like what Harris/Klebold and Bin Laden thought, they had it coming. They should go seek help and get a MRI on their head. As far as I am concerned Drew just as bad as Charles Manson and Bin Laden.
Yorktown,
That was the same attitude that prevailed at the Salem Witchcraft trials and during the Holocaust in Hitler’s Germany. People wanted to belive what they wanted to believe, and damned anyone who tried to counter their views with facts.
Schap711, you’re doing the same thing by being judgemental and just want to hear what you want to believe in. You’re know better than Lori Drew. Your mentality is similar to Al-Qaeda, Manson Family, Nazis, and Communist do. GET A CLUE!
My neighbor’s daughter has major depression. A couple of girls that she thought was her friend said the following – “the world would be better off without you”. This is what kids learned from Lori Drew’s sick behavior.
So Drew wants to get back on the internet? Why? What part of her job is so internet dependent? If she knows that she can’t get on the internet, why is she applying for jobs that require it? Most jobs do not require internet usage unless it is something that heavily involves computers. The only reason I could see her having to use computers at work is so she can use e-mail & most work places do not have e-mail that is usable outside of the office. (For instance, my mother’s office e-mail can only be accessed inside of her office.) I’m smelling a bit of a rat here. I think that the judges should take a very good look at Drew’s “job” & ensure that it is necessary for her to have internet usage.
Personally though? I don’t think she should be allowed to use it. Do we allow thieves to work in banks? Alcoholics to work in ABC stores? People who have been banned from certain things don’t automatically get their privileges back because “it’s hard to get work”. Try not breaking the law first. Laws are here for a reason & if Drew didn’t want to have her life made more difficult then she shouldn’t have made the decision to terrorize Meier, regardless of who first suggested it. She made her bed. Now she has to sleep in it.
If Drew can’t do the work without the internet then she should find another job. She is a criminal & should be held up to the same restrictions that any other criminal has if they were to commit a crime.
It still just irritates me that Drew is whining about how inconvenient her being banned from the internet is making her life. Gee, then how about how difficult Megan’s family’s life is now that their daughter is dead because of Drew & her employee’s horrible actions.
This isn’t a case of “will she strike again”. This is a case of “this is what has been said & you have to abide by it”. If the courts were to decide that I should be banned from carrying firearms, then should I choose a job that requires me to carry one? According to this ruling I can now argue that I have the right to get a job that requires this & get the right to carry firearms only while I am on the clock. I could argue that my previous offense was a one-time thing & that I’ll never do it again, but that’s not the point. The point is that I did something bad & the court decided that I shouldn’t be able to carry a firearm. I shouldn’t be able to just argue my way into being able to carry one again.
It’s the principle of the matter. It doesn’t matter if Drew was the person who thought up the scheme or not- she willingly participated.
The woman was acquitted of all criminal charges. There’s no legal basis for the ban to continue. Her conduct was reprehensible, but to compare it to that of Bin Laden and the Columbine killers is ludicrous.
Bdamages, get a clue. Do you know how to read? I NEVER equated Lori Drew with Bin Laden and Harris/Klebold. Her justification is similar to Bin Laden and Harris/Klebold. Anyone who defends Drew is just as bad as they are. They are the kind of people who justify crime. This woman deserves the same hate that is worthy of the same contempt that they earned. Sure, she is not a mass murderer.
I know this thread is 5 1/2 years old, but I felt compelled to say something after Shelley Powers’ comments above, where she claimed Lori Drew didn’t have as much to do with the situation as the original post said.
Shelley is wrong. Lori created the MySpace and admitted as such multiple times; besides, just because an 18-year-old employee suggested it to Lori doesn’t absolve Lori of responsibility for her own actions.
The employee, Ashley Grills, apparently went into therapy after the incident, because of the guilt she felt regarding what had happened. Lori, meanwhile, told the press that it was no big deal, just a “joke.” As has been mentioned, she went to the funeral and kept engaging with the Meier family as though she had not been involved in the incident.
And let’s not forget that a grown woman decided it was a good idea to spy on a teenage girl just to find out if that girl was spreading rumors or not. This woman also allowed her 14-year-old daughter to get involved in this deception.
Lori also admitted to sending messages, and only later changed her story after she learned the FBI was investigating.
Drew was found guilty of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act initially, though the verdict was overturned because the judge felt that criminalizing the violation of an ISP’s TOS was overly broad and that existing laws did not explicitly cover that.
I understand Shelley wants to defend Lori (her friend, perhaps?) but by any reasonable standard, what Lori did was beyond just “thoughtless.” And it is in no way accurate to label this post as a lie-filled rant, as Shelley implied.
Anonymous, I agree with you. I just watched another version of this incident and what this gown adult agreed to do against a 13 year old child, is uncomprendable. Lori Drew and her constituents actions should be considered as repulsive. We have adults choosing to assist in the deaths of children. This woman has her own child and should not be allowed near any children nor a mouse pad or anything that runs off of a battery.
I just saw the megan meier story on ID I really think that what lori dean did was despicabke she should be punished and NEVER allowed yo use internet AGAIN
sorry I meant lori drew any one who does that is apoor excuse for a mother what is that teaching her children
Lori Drew will always have the mind of a 13 yr old girl. This is why, with her daughters assistance, she pulled this off.
Putting the Christmas gift of her own child in their garage was solely meant to inflict pain. Pity is all that is deserving of this hollow shell of a “human being” -a term loosely used in this instance). Void of any moral compass, Lori Drew will roam any space of the planet willing to take her, no doubt with her delusion- she is loved & respectable.
We must keep in mind, the high point of Lori Drew’s day was spent in complete anticipation Megan coming home from school to log on. That’s it. The hollow shell had nothing more.
If only Megan knew then what she knows now, the power she held over Lori Drew. We know, she will always possess that power over Lori Drew=she will never escape this.
Any article (blog) claiming to have been written by Lori Drew very well may not have been written by Lori Drew, but we KNOW she or her offspring will read it, we know she has so little control of her megalomania, the power it would take for her to not pretend she is someone else, is beyond her capabilities.
She is & always will be, portraying herself as someone she is not. The iconic, middle aged, desperate, unfulfilled, wanting, morally bankrupt, Catfish.
Sincerely, we can see this woman stealing online images to entice young men or women into her den of iniquity under more false names, as it’s not only men with pedophiliac tendencies. Imagine if it were a man caught in the place of Lori Drew.
Is Lori Drew no less of a threat just because she has born a child? Certainly not.
The Lori Drew’s of our planet are the scourge of humanity, she is thus.
Lori Drew will always hide behind another name, she will forever deflect, she will never own it. She isn’t capable as she is devoid of capability.
Time will pass… but every once in a while someone like me, who lives in Europe, will see this story & pass it on, making Lori Drew’s life on this planet, a little smaller.
She is a footnote, nothing more.
Insignificant.
Portly & diminutive.
A sad & pitiful representation of mankind.
Pity her, she has nothing to give.
Lori Drew, is devoid, destitute, of emotion. No matter what words she utters= there is barren wasteland.
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