49-Year-Old Mom Indicted In MySpace Teen Suicide Case
We've reported on a number of social network-related suicides lately, most happening in the small Welsh town of Brigend, where 17 kids have killed themselves in an effort to get recognition from their friends on the popular networking site Bebo. Today, though, we have a different sort of suicide and a different social network. In Los Angeles, California, 14-year-old Megan Meier killed herself in October of 2006 after a MySpace romance with a 16-year-old boy turned sour. The catch is the boy didn't exist, having been created by a 49-year-old mother who lived up the street.Lori Drew, mother of a classmate of Meier's, created a fake profile and started to draw the girl into an online romance, apparently to see what Meier was saying about her daughter. After a month of leading the girl along posing as the boy Drew ended the relationship with the message "The world would be a better place without you." Heartbroken, Meier hung herself within an hour, and died the next day.
Yesterday, Drew was indicted on charges of conspiracy and accessing protected computers to obtain information to inflict emotional distress, which could result in a 20-year sentence. She was apparently assisted by an unnamed teenage assistant, possibly her daughter, and it remains to be seen whether she will face any punishment for this. [Source: AOL News/AP]





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Comments
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Subscribe to commentsacmeMay 16th 2008 12:26PM
w.t.f.
fartingbaboonMay 16th 2008 2:07PM
I remember this story. I hope the lady has many very large girlfriends in prison. Beeotch!
ShineeMay 16th 2008 7:21PM
Lulz. Ew.
DediFeb 6th 2009 7:25PM
Well she was worried what she was saying about her daughter-I think in jail there will be much more to worry about what is said about the daughter's Mom. Woman deserves life in prison.
greeneyz99Mar 11th 2009 1:15AM
I remember hearing about this and being horrified .That woman should be charged with involuntary homicide .My heart goes out to the family of Miss Megan Meier.God help these pathetic parents who need to be that involved in their childrens lives.That they need to invent something to facilitate animosity.That poor kid, as it is you have all these emotions at that age.This idiot mother had to add to all of it and provoke a beautiful young girls death. How ashamed she should be.
KatMay 23rd 2009 7:48PM
This is totally disgusting. This lady deserves to be in jail for the rest of her life. Megan Meier didn't get to live the rest of her life out, so the person who was the cause of that shouldn't be allowed to, either.
Awful.
doodooJun 3rd 2009 2:21PM
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