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Mother Indicted In MySpace Hoax that Led to Teenager?s Suicide

By Altman & Altman

Lori Drew, a Missouri mother, has been indicted in connection with a cyber taunting case that prompted a teenager to commit suicide in 2006. The federal indictment, filed in US District Court in Los Angeles, says the 49-year-old mother and others used a MySpace account to pose as ?Josh Evans,? a 16-year-old boy. The ?boy? then pretended to have romantic feelings for 13-year-old Megan Meier. Meier hung herself in her room after her online crush rejected her and told her the world would be better if she wasn?t in it. Meier?s mother, Tina, found her daughter hanging by a belt in her room. She says that her daughter was insecure and suffered from depression. If convicted, Drew could spend up to 20 years in prison for three counts of accessing protected computers to get information to inflict emotional distress, as well as one count of conspiracy...continue to full post

Full post as published by Boston Criminal lawyer Blog on May 16, 2008 (boomark / email).