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| Is it even possible for a 13 year old to have depression? |
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Thats some really upsetting stuff. I hope this sort of stuff will stop but I doubt it
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This is disgusting.
I think the adults who were a part of it should be charged with something. They probably knew she was mentally unstable and taking prescriptions for it.
I know there is probably no legal basis, but morally, they shouldn't get off scot free when there intention was to mentally screw with this little girl and/or promote there own kid to mess with her.
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That's very sad, Rest In Peace. Come on, trying to find stuff that the little girl was saying about their kids, geez.. Messing with emotions, you can't do that, and it's even worse because she was facing depression. So sad 
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| Yeah it's mean, but it's no reason to kill yourself. Killing yourself over an online person you've never met? That's just dumb. Sorry to seem insensitive, but I don't think the people who make the fake account should be charged at all. |
Not everyone has the same logical/rational mindset. And of course some have become more insecure due to their outside physical appearance. Kids/teens really can be cruel.
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That's a damn sad story.
I don't think those that fooled her should be charged though. What crime did they commit? The girl could have ended communication at any time.
What I wonder is what the hell was up with her parents?
I don't think a 13 year old should be talking to strangers online without supervision.
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If the morons didn't know about her mental problems i don't think it was anybody's fault. Just a tragic accident but that is really sad to hear.
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Parents of MySpace hoax victim seek justice
‘No apologies’ over teen who hanged herself over failed romance, kin say
The parents of a 13-year-old Missouri girl who hanged herself after a failed MySpace romance — later uncovered as a hoax — say they have yet to receive an apology from the family they blame for their daughter’s death.
“They’ve absolutely offered no apologies,” Ron Meier told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer on Monday. “They sent us a letter in the mail, basically saying that they might feel a little bit of responsibility, but they don’t feel no guilt or remorse or anything for what they did.”
Rather, said Tina Meier, the people are upset with her for going public with their story. Last week, while shopping, she ran into the woman who invented the hoax, Tina Meier said.
“She asked me to stop doing all of this,” she told Lauer. “I told her that we would not stop, that we were going to continue for justice for Megan because we knew what they did.”
The Meiers’ daughter, Megan, hanged herself Oct. 16, 2006.
The Meiers have not named the people because they do not want to identify their teenage daughter, who had once been a friend of Megan’s.
After the two girls had a falling out, the mother invented a 16-year-old boy, “Josh Evans,” created a MySpace account for him, and made Megan believe he was new in town and thought she was cool.
‘Oh, Mom, you don’t understand’
Megan, a girl who had battled attention deficit disorder, depression and a weight problem for much of her young life, believed him, despite her mother’s warnings to be cautious.
“That was always the talk,” Tina Meier told Lauer, repeating the conversations she had with her daughter: “‘Megan, c’mon, we don’t even know this person. Let’s not get too excited.’ She’d say, ‘Oh, Mom, you don’t understand.’ So I did talk to her daily about that. But children at this age, they don’t think that.”
And then the boy turned on Megan, leading a campaign of vilification and online name-calling that ended when Megan took her own life.
For a year, the Meiers kept quiet at the request of both the FBI and local law enforcement officials while they investigated the incident.
Ultimately, investigators told the Meiers that while the hoax was cruel, it was not criminal.
‘Continue to monitor your children’
The case remains open, though, and the Meiers continue to hope that criminal charges can be filed under a federal law passed in January 2006 that prohibits online harassment.
“We are still continuing on with the fight on the criminal and the civil side,” said Ron Meier.
The family’s story is, Tina Meier told Lauer, a cautionary tale about the trouble that lies in wait for kids on the Internet, a tale made more painful because they had monitored their daughter’s Internet use closely and had talked to her about “Josh” and the events that ended so tragically.
“It was monitored highly,” Tina Meier said of her daughter’s MySpace account. “We had the password. She couldn’t sign on without us. We had to be in the room” when she was online.
They have not filed a civil suit against the people who invented Josh, but are not ruling that out.
And they also want to warn other parents and children to beware of people online who claim to be their friends.
“Continue to monitor your children,” Tina Meier told Lauer. “Take an extra step. Ask the question. Look at their computers, know what they’re doing. To kids, don’t trust anybody online that you do not know is your true friend.”
Tina Meier has said that she doesn’t think anyone involved intended for her daughter to kill herself.
‘Absolutely vile’
”But when adults are involved and continue to screw with a 13-year-old, with or without mental problems, it is absolutely vile,” she told the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis, which first reported on the case.
Tina Meier said law enforcement officials told her the case did not fit into any law. But sheriff’s officials have not closed the case and pledged to consider new evidence if it emerges.
Megan Meier was described as a “bubbly, goofy” girl who loved spending time with her friends, watching movies and fishing with her dad.
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A 13 year old who committs suicide over this, and has a history of "depression and ADHD" has probable underlying issues going on. Id bet my life she hasn't led a "normal" life.
Depression and ADHD are so overdiagnosed in children and teens it's not even funny. I don't doubt she had some depressive or ADHD symptoms at all. It's just that those things manifest themselves on the sufac, whereas the real problems are much deeper. Exposure to traumas can produce feelings of worthlessness, hopelessness, low self esteem, irritibility, anxiety, impulsivity, hyperactivity, defiance, and many others. Those sure sound like depression and ADHD, but ill bet they're more related to a trauma(s).
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In MySpace suicide case, community fights back
After a teen girl falls victim to a Web hoax, angry neighbors take matters into their own hands.
By P.J. Huffstutter, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
November 22, 2007
DARDENNE PRAIRIE, MO. -- For nearly a year, the families who live along Waterford Crystal Drive in this bedroom community northwest of St. Louis have kept the secret about the boy Megan Meier met last September on the social networking site MySpace.
He called himself Josh Evans, and he and 13-year-old Megan struck up an online friendship that lasted several weeks. Then the boy abruptly turned on Megan and ended it. That night, Megan, who had previously battled depression, committed suicide.
The secret was revealed six weeks later: Neighbor Lori Drew had pretended to be 16-year-old Josh to gain the trust of Megan, who had been fighting with Drew's daughter, according to sheriff's department records and Megan's parents.
After their daughter's death, Tina and Ron Meier begged their other neighbors to keep the story private. Let the local authorities and the FBI conduct their investigations in privacy, they pleaded.
But after waiting for criminal charges to be filed against Drew, neighbors learned that local and federal prosecutors could not find a statute applicable to the case.
This community's patience has dried up. The furious neighbors -- and in the wake of recent media reports, an outraged public -- are taking matters into their own hands.
In an outburst of virtual vigilantism, readers of blogs such as RottenNeighbor.com and hitsusa.com have posted the Drews' home address, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and photographs.
Dozens of people allegedly have called local businesses that work with the family's advertising booklet firm, and flooded the phone lines this week at the local Burlington Coat Factory, where Curt Drew reportedly works.
"I posted that, where Curt works. I'm not ashamed to admit that," said Trever Buckles, 40, a neighbor whose two teenage boys grew up with Megan. "Why? Because there's never been any sense of remorse or public apology from the Drews, no 'maybe we made a mistake.' "
Local teenagers and residents protest just steps from the Drews' tiny porch. A fake 911 call, claiming a man had been shot inside the Drew home, sent law enforcement officers to surround the one-story, white-sided house. People drive through the neighborhood in the middle of the night, screaming, "Murderer!"
The Drews, who have mounted cameras and recording devices onto the roof of their house to track the movements of their neighbors, declined to comment for this article.
Cyber-bullying has become an increasingly creepy reality, where the anonymity of video games, message boards and other online forums offers an outlet for cruel taunts. But it can be difficult to draw the line between constitutionally protected free speech and conduct that is illegal.
Still, Parry Aftab, an Internet privacy lawyer and executive director of WiredSafety.org, points to one federal statute that may apply in the Meier case: the telecommunications harassment law. Amended in 2005, the law prohibits people from anonymously using the Internet with the intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person.
Terri Dougherty, a spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney's office in St. Louis, declined to comment on whether prosecutors could apply the federal statute in the Meier case.
The mounting tension and heated emotions have local community leaders worried. The St. Charles County Sheriff's Department, which had rarely visited the suburb, now regularly patrols there. County prosecutors are reexamining the case.
On Wednesday evening, Dardenne Prairie's Board of Aldermen unanimously passed a law that makes cyber-harassment a misdemeanor -- with a maximum penalty of 90 days in jail, $500 fine or both for each violation. It's the most stringent punishment available to the city.
"We're all in shock," said Mayor Pam Fogarty. "If I have anything to say about it, we'll never have our hands tied legally like this again." |
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This is tragic. I for one believe the parent that created the profile should be charged in this case. The fact is that if someone bullied someone else and that person in turn killed themselves as a result of that bullying they would be responsible. This parent not only allowed their kid to be part of mental bullying of a "CHILD" they actually took part in it. What is even more telling is that the victims family had been storing a foosball table for them which shows they knew the family pretty well. That is pathetic.
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Puffy, what would they be charged with?
I don't see how you make what those people did illegal without severely infringing on folks' free speech rights.
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L.A. grand jury issues subpoenas in Web suicide case
Stephanie S. Cordle / St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Megan Meier, 13, had battled depression. Her parents say she was duped into a fake online romance.
In a novel approach, prosecutors are looking at charging a woman who posed as a boy and sent cruel messages to teen with defrauding MySpace.
By Scott Glover, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
1:39 PM PST, January 8, 2008
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has begun issuing subpoenas in the case of a Missouri teenager who hanged herself after being rejected by the person she thought was a 16-year-old boy she met on the social networking site MySpace, sources told The Times.
The case created a national furor when authorities revealed that the "friend" was really the mother of one of the girl's former friends.
When the woman abruptly ended the online relationship, telling 13-year-old Megan Meier that the world would be a better place without her, Megan hung herself in a closet as her parents were downstairs preparing for dinner.
Local and federal authorities in Missouri conducted an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Megan's death but were unable to find a statute under which to charge Lori Drew, the woman who allegedly perpetrated the hoax.
Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles, however, are exploring the possibility of charging Drew with defrauding MySpace by creating the false account that she, her daughter and another person used to communicate with Megan, according to the sources, who insisted on anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the case.
The prosecutors believe they have jurisdiction because MySpace -- the would-be victim -- is based in Santa Monica, the sources said.
Laurie Levenson, a professor at Loyola Law School, said the idea of a fraud charge was an "an interesting and novel approach" to the case.
"But I doubt it's really going to lead to the type of punishment people really want to see, which is this woman being held responsible for this girl's death," she said.
Levenson, a former federal prosecutor, said she thought bringing the charge could raise various First Amendment issues as well as questions about how to fairly enforce such a law on the Internet.
"This may be a net that catches a lot of people," she said, "because, as I understand it, people use pseudo-identities on MySpace all the time."
The grand jury issued several subpoenas last week, including one to MySpace and others to "witnesses in the case." One source did not know who else had received subpoenas; another declined to provide that information.
Thomas P. O'Brien, the U.S. Attorney in Los Angeles, declined to comment. Thom Mrozek, a spokesman for O'Brien, also declined to comment. Speaking generally, Mrozek said a federal wire fraud conviction carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. |
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This might set up a scary precedence. I almost never sign up for any online service with real information.
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This might set up a scary precedence. I almost never sign up for any online service with real information. |
Wait, wait. So you're NOT the actual Prince of Darkness?  |
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^ But you presumably don't pose as a potential mate for underage girls. See, it's not the "signing up using false information" that's the problem here obviously. I like the move, or what I've heard of it so far.
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| ^ But you presumably don't pose as a potential mate for underage girls. See, it's not the "signing up using false information" that's the problem here obviously. I like the move, or what I've heard of it so far. |
Well, it seems the charge is based on defrauding MySpace, not the underage child.
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| Freedom of speech has it's limits. You can't go in a theater screaming "FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!" This falls in-line with that, IMO. |
So you think someone who makes a fake MySpace should get thrown in jail? That's what they're looking into doing.
They're not looking at charging the lady with fooling the child.
What would they even charge her with if they tried to go the former route? Impersonating a child? Lying to a child? Ending a friendship with a child?
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| Freedom of speech has it's limits. You can't go in a theater screaming "FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!" This falls in-line with that, IMO. |
So you think someone who makes a fake MySpace should get thrown in jail? That's what they're looking into doing.
They're not looking at charging the lady with fooling the child.
What would they even charge her with if they tried to go the former route? Impersonating a child? Lying to a child? Ending a friendship with a child?
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Fake MySpace charges resulting in prison? no.
Fooling someone? no.
Obviously this child had issues long beforehand and those responsible for creating the fake page didn't kill her, but I think they should be held accountable to some degree? For murder? no. Monetary damages? maybe. I'm sure a judge and possibly a jury will decide what that is.
My nephew created a MySpace page of one of his teachers and had all kinds of sexual stuff on it. The school found out. My nephew got kicked off the basketball team, suspended for a week, has tons of extra assignments, and has to tell his class what he did and why it's wrong. If he didn't agree to these things, he was gonna be expelled.
If the teacher found this and committed suicide over it I wouldn't think he should be charged with murder, but there has to be some type of punishment.
Do you agree the punishment would be more severe if the teacher had committed suicide over it ?
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I've always said, "California has a law against everything." If they're gonna file charges like that, then Cali is definitely the place to do it.
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| Do you agree the punishment would be more severe if the teacher had committed suicide over it ? |
Honestly, it's a little easier to answer in that situation. The student wouldn't be forcing the teacher to commit suicide and going down the road of cause and influence is a slippery slope.
What if you cheat on a girlfriend and she kills herself, should you be punished?
What if you spurn someone's love and they kill themselves?
I don't think one isolated event causes people to commit suicide except in the most extreme cases. A combination is usually required.
If you allow that one event can reasonably cause suicide, that might provide a defense for violent crimes in the future as well. What if the teacher "went crazy" and killed the student? Should the student be held responsible for setting the teacher off? Far fetched perhaps but entirely possible.
Besides, we're talking about a minor student and adult teacher, right? I think that's VERY different than adults messing with children like the story in the article.
I don't think what those adults did was right, I just question how exactly they would be held accountable for what they did without exposing innocent people in the future to unjust criminal charges.
BTW, with your nephew, there is a question of the school atmosphere and respect for teachers, etc. What he did was a violation of school policies, not criminal code. If the teacher had indeed committed suicide and the school somehow concluded your nephew was responsible, I'm sure there would be more severe punishment but only within the school system, i.e. guaranteed expulsion.
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think we both agree. Neither of us thinks they should get prison, or are responsible for the death of this child.
If someone posted a page like that to my daughter and she committed suicide, I hope I'd realize my child had previous issues and ultimately, she chose to make this horrible decision.
That doesn't mean I don't want 10 minutes with the adult who created the page though. 
What should happen to that adult? I hope the judge would get them some type of counseling (how to interract with troubled children / how to act like a responsible, mature adult), community service, working with "at risk" children, $$$ to the family, etc. There is "punishment" that can be beneficial to them that doesn't include prison.
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I don't suppose there's any way to link the death of the girl to the charge of "defrauding MySpace" is there? For example, can they use some line of reasoning that the act of fraud led to the death of the girl? I'm not really up on legal stuff, is there some kind of loophole there?
And also, can't the girl's family just sue the woman in civil court and take her for all she's worth? I mean, OJ was found not guilty in criminal court but he lost everything in civil court. I imagine most juries would find enough of a link between the fake myspace and the girl's death to severely punish the woman monetarily? It certainly wouldn't bring the girl back, but the woman needs to be punished and taking away all of someone's money could certainly hurt them if there's no viable alternative for justice.
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The advancement of the computer, plain and simple. If you follow the process of evolution, then this doesn't come as a shock.
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I just really found out about this story and it makes me SICK.
What the hell was this woman thinking? Her 13-year old daughter has a falling out with another 13-year old girl (gee, that NEVER happens ) and decides to take it upon herself to completely screw with this girl's head by making her think she has attracted a good-looking boy into starting a relationship with her JUST so she can find out what a CHILD is saying about her kid?!? Throw on top of that the fact that she KNEW this child had a history of depression and there's really no words to describe this breathing void's utter stupidity.
I can't even begin to describe the amount of anger I feel while I'm typing this. This woman's lack of remorse or accountability is equally infuriating and unsurprising.
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Since the dawn of time, girls have been catty to each other.
Two girls will collaborate in the ostracizing of a third girl, calling her names behind her back, spreading rumors and playing little jokes on her with the goal of inflicting as much mental and emotional anguish as they possibly can.
While women never completely grow out of this, most do tend to lose interest in these kinds of activities as they age and mature.
Most women, except, of course, for Lori Drew, who is currently in the running for the title of “Most Hated Woman in America.”
For a while, Lori Drew, who ran a successful local advertising mailer business called The Drew Ad Vantage, was a respected, popular member of her community. She has since…gone downhill somewhat.
She lives in a nice house.
She’s a member of the St. Peters Chamber of Commerce.
She’s married to Curt Drew, who’s employed as a Realtor at their local Coldwell Banker.
But now, as you can see, Lori Drew’s business is fighting a sudden public relations downturn.
During seventh grade, Lori Drew’s daughter, Sarah, was friends with Megan Taylor Meier, a 13-year-old girl who, like many 13-year-olds, struggled with her weight and had self-esteem issues. These issues Megan had were compounded by a diagnosed case of Attention-Deficit Disorder and a long battle with depression - a condition which she she had been seeing a therapist for since she was in the third grade, after talking about suicide.
The Meiers and Drews were friendly enough that Megan had been on a vacation trip with the Drews, and the Meiers had been storing a foosball table for the Drews until Christmas.
Sarah Drew and Megan Meier started the eighth grade together, and their on-again off-again friendship became a little more chaotic, as 13-year-old friendships tend to be when two girls are involved.
For some reason or another, Sarah Drew and Megan Meier squabbled, probably over something stupid, and stopped being friends.
If you’ve ever known 13-year-old girls, or if you ever were a 13-year-old girl, you know what that’s like.
Well, Sarah Drew told her mother, Lori Drew, about how Megan was mean to her and how pissed off she was about it.
That’s when things started to get really stupid, because like many other boomer and post-boomer helicopter parents, Lori Drew was unable to keep her nose out of what should have been her daughter’s business.
Lori Drew created a profile on MySpace with the name ‘Josh Evans’ and put a picture of a ‘really hot guy’ on the profile picture. 16-year-old ‘Josh Evans’ had just moved into the area from Florida, was being home-schooled, played the drums and the guitar, and didn’t have a phone number.
And, coincidently enough, he wanted to be friends with Megan Meier.
Megan was thrilled that ‘Josh Evans’ was interested in her enough to add her to his friends list. She showed her mother, Tina, the friend request and begged to be allowed to add the teen to her friends list. Tina, after looking the boy’s profile over, let her daughter add him as a friend.
For six weeks, Megan chatted with ‘Josh’ about things 13-year-old girls usually talk about: school, parents and sex.
Lori Drew, using the experience that comes with advanced age, did her best to get Megan Meier to confess secret desires, crushes and other vulnerabilities to her online ‘boyfriend.’ Shortly after starting this relationship, Lori Drew started letting other people into the “joke.” An employee of Drew Ad Vantage named Ashley was recruited to help keep the joke going. Another girl in the neighborhood also had the login details to the Josh Evans account.
Then one day, on the 15th of October, 2006, six weeks after stringing along Megan Meier, ‘Josh Evans’ started getting mean.
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| I don’t know if I want to be friends with you anymore because I’ve heard that you are not very nice to your friends. |
Megan Meier responded with a frantic e-mail that basically said, “I don’t know what you’re talking about!”
The next day, after handing out invitations to her birthday party to friends at school, Megan came home and asked her mother to log into Megan’s MySpace account for her so she could see if Josh Evans had replied to her e-mail. She was hoping that the boy would show up to her party, which was in three weeks. After all, it would be nice if she and her parents could finally meet the boy who had captured her heart - as long as she could find out who had been talking to him and telling him that she wasn’t nice to her friends.
But Josh Evans wasn’t being nice.
Josh’s account had, in fact, forwarded her correspondence with him to a number of other online friends. All those secrets, all those confessions - now everyone Megan Meier knew at school could read them.
And read them they did, with many of them responding as younger teenagers are wont to do - with mockery and name-calling.
Megan’s mother had a dental appointment and was pressed for time, so Megan’s mom told Megan to sign off as she walked out the door.
Megan didn’t sign off. She responded to the online cruelty with name calling and threats of her own. When her mother called her, after she had arrived at the dentist, Megan was still online, crying and telling her mother that everyone was being so mean to her. Megan’s mother again told her daughter to log off.
Shortly after that, a sobbing Megan called her mother and told her that people online were posting bulletins about her, saying things like, “Megan is fat” and “Megan is a [Swearing is not permitted at Clublakers. You must edit this post prior to submitting.].” Again, Megan was told to log off by her now-furious mother.
After her dentist appointment was over, Megan’s mom returned home, went to the room where the computer was located and reviewed the messages her daughter had seen and was sending. Seeing how out-of-control things were on her daughter’s MySpace account, Megan’s mom expressed her disappointment in her daughter’s behavior, logged out the account and ended Megan’s MySpace activities for the night.
Megan’s mom didn’t catch the last message in Megan’s inbox, however. That message was from Josh Evans and said:
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| Everybody in O’Fallon knows how you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a [Swearing is not permitted at Clublakers. You must edit this post prior to submitting.] rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you. |
Megan ran to her room and stayed there, quietly, while her parents cooked dinner downstairs.
Her parents, sensing something was wrong, ran upstairs and found their daughter, who had hung herself with a belt in her closet.
Emergency services was called and an ambulance arrived empty and left with the 13-year-old in the back.
As the ambulance was in front of the Meier’s house, Lori Drew called the 13-year-old who had been brought in on the joke and told her to keep her mouth shut about what they had done.
The Josh Evans account was deleted.
Megan Meier was dead the next day.
Lori Drew went with her family went to Megan’s funeral and mouthed the right words of remorse, all while knowing that what she had done had driven Megan, a girl the Drews knew was on anti-depression medication, to kill herself.
A few weeks after Megan’s suicide, the thirteen-year-old that Lori had recruited into the “joke” felt a wee bit guilty about her part in it and talked to the Meiers about it, explaining what had been done to their daughter by someone they thought was a family friend.
The Meiers, responding with incredible restraint, only went so far as to smash to pieces and drop off on the Drew driveway the foosball table that they had been asked to store in their house until Christmas.
“Merry Christmas” was spray-painted onto the box.
The Drew’s response? Call the police and file a report.
Here’s a partial transcript of that report:
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In reference to their daughter’s suicide, Drew explained she wanted to “just tell them” what she did to contribute to the Meier’s daughter’s suicide. She instigated and monitored a “my space” 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 “good looking” male on “my space” in order to “find out what Megan (Meier’s daughter) was saying on-line” about her daughter. Drew explained the communication between the fake male profile 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 thirteen year old.” Drew stated she continued the fake male profile despite this development.
According to Drew “somehow” other “my space” users were able to access the fake male profile and Megan found out she had been duped. Drew stated she knew “arguments” had broken out between Megan and others on “my space”. Drew felt this incident contributed to Megan’s suicide, but she did not feel “as guilty” because at the funeral because she found out “Megan had tried to commit suicide before.”
Drew explained the neighborhood had recently found out her involvement in Megan’s suicide and her neighborhood has become hostile toward her and her family. Despite the recency of the suicide and several neighbors recommending she not confront the Me | | | | |
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