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'My Space' hoax ends with suicide of Dardenne Prairie teen
St. Louis Post Disgrace ^ | 11/14/2007 | Steve Pokin

Posted on 11/14/2007 11:06:54 AM PST by Clintons Are White Trash

His name was Josh Evans. He was 16 years old. And he was hot.

"Mom! Mom! Mom! Look at him!" Tina Meier recalls her daughter saying.

Josh had contacted Megan Meier through her MySpace page and wanted to be added as a friend.Yes, he's cute, Tina Meier told her daughter. "Do you know who he is?"

(Excerpt) Read more at suburbanjournals.stltoday.com ...


TOPICS: Local News
KEYWORDS: loridrew; meganmeier; meier; myspace; teens
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To: Clintons Are White Trash

Sick. Someone needs to pay.


21 posted on 11/14/2007 11:28:43 AM PST by MaestroLC ("Let him who wants peace prepare for war."--Vegetius, A.D. Fourth Century)
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To: picard

Welcome to Human Depravity. Cruel is the word. It makes them feel important. I can see this happening to the friends of my daughter. I can see my son’s friends doing this type of hoax.

What am I saying? My son would probably do something cruel like this. I’m going home and make him read this.


22 posted on 11/14/2007 11:28:44 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Clintons Are White Trash

In before the ban myspace crowd.


23 posted on 11/14/2007 11:28:58 AM PST by mysterio
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To: weegee

MySpace was 1/100th the size when it was 18+ only...

I avoid MySpace like the plague, nothing but bored kiddies on there.


24 posted on 11/14/2007 11:30:25 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: rintense

But, as you may notice via Dateline, it’s when they show up to do something about it that they’re prosecuted (i.e., intent to commit the act of abuse).


25 posted on 11/14/2007 11:31:20 AM PST by Grn_Lantern (Let's go to work....)
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To: Clintons Are White Trash

Those are some f*** up, SOBs. Poor kid, poor family.


26 posted on 11/14/2007 11:32:27 AM PST by stevio ((NRA))
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To: Alberta's Child
every warning sign they mention in this article should have been seen by them BEFORE this whole incident unfolded.

C'mon, no time for that. Too busy. Drop the orphans off at the kiddie kennel. Chase the almighty dollar. More money means a better life for ... the children. (Yeah, that's it, for the children.)

A bigger pie means we all get a bigger slice. Happiness is a house full of stuff.

27 posted on 11/14/2007 11:33:14 AM PST by newgeezer (In a perfect world, Amendment XIX would still be someone's stupid idea.)
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To: Grn_Lantern

True. But, the kind of manipulation that happened here is the same tactic used by pedophiles. Regardless of whether anything would be ‘result’, the crime here is what the adult did to the child. This is extreme child mental abuse from malevolent adults.


28 posted on 11/14/2007 11:34:22 AM PST by rintense (I'm 4 Thompson!)
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To: Clintons Are White Trash
"She told me that some kids were saying horrible stuff about her and she didn't understand why. I told her it's OK. I told her that they obviously don't know her. And that it would be fine."

It's not OK and she's not fine. And consider this. I remember kids for whom every day of junior high was like this. It's surprising that the teen suicide rate isn't higher than it is.

29 posted on 11/14/2007 11:35:02 AM PST by Aquinasfan (When you find "Sola Scriptura" in the Bible, let me know)
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To: AppyPappy
How old is your son? (don't answer) I'm assuming he's a minor.

I can (sort of) see kids doing this. It's wrong, and their parents need to make sure they don't do it ... but it is childish behaviour.

Supposed adults hoaxing a teenager like this is beyond despicable. What was that about 'giving scandal to children' and millstones?

30 posted on 11/14/2007 11:35:55 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Clintons Are White Trash

What this father did to this foosball table I would have done to these adults.... Unbelievable.


31 posted on 11/14/2007 11:36:36 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Clintons Are White Trash

This story is incredibly tragic and disturbing. It would have been bad enough if kids had done this - but adults??

It’s too bad that the adults who created the fake page and tormented the girl aren’t going to be charged. It seems to me that criminally negligent homicide (or involuntary manslaughter) would be an appropriate and provable charge. And I wish the parents would go after the other family in civil court too.


32 posted on 11/14/2007 11:36:44 AM PST by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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To: Clintons Are White Trash

God allmighty.

I’d have lost my mind, and burnt the other families house to the ground...just for starters.

And I would have been standing there as they tried to escape the flames.

And then I’d have gone to jail, a broken man.

What this family did is unbelievable.


33 posted on 11/14/2007 11:37:13 AM PST by Badeye (That Karma thing keeps coming around, eh Sally? (chuckle))
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To: ArrogantBustard

He’s 11. I call it “The Stupid Age”. He’s really smart but he (and his friends) do stupid stuff. Luckily, he has no use for girls.


34 posted on 11/14/2007 11:37:59 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Clintons Are White Trash

If these fiends did this to a daughter of mine, their entire family would wake up surrounded by flames.


35 posted on 11/14/2007 11:39:34 AM PST by The KG9 Kid
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To: AppyPappy

Eleven years old, and smart but stupid? Sounds familiar ... ;’}


36 posted on 11/14/2007 11:40:06 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilisation is aborting, buggering, and contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: Clintons Are White Trash

Rest in Peace, Tina.


37 posted on 11/14/2007 11:40:09 AM PST by syriacus (30,000 Americans died in 30 months in Korea under Truman, to RE-WIN SK's freedom.)
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To: ConservativeWarrior
This article is written like an afterschool special.

I agree. I got the gist of it, but it was very hard to follow. Drama Queen journalist trying to milk a tragedy into a compelling little soap opera for the readers. Bleah!

38 posted on 11/14/2007 11:42:07 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: The KG9 Kid

I quite agree. Their doors and windows would be mysteriously nailed shut too.


39 posted on 11/14/2007 11:43:11 AM PST by InsensitiveConservative
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To: Clintons Are White Trash
Horrifying. The banality of evil (to quote Hannah Arendt).

Even if the girl hadn't killed herself, what these so-called adults did was evil, evil, evil.

One other thing caught my eye: The way Megan spelled out the last letter of her name..."N is for Neglected."

This got me to start reading between the reporter's lines: Here is a Modern Mom who is out being a real-estate agent, always rushing about; who doesn't have time to spend with her overweight depressed daughter -- who allegedly had ADD?

Now don't get me wrong -- I don't for one minute blame the mom for her daughter's suicide. If anyone's the proximate cause, it's those evil neighbors.

But I have to wonder if the girl was diagnosed with ADD because medicating her was the "busy" parents' way to deal with her problems.
And if the build-up of ADD medication in her system had something to do with her suicide.
And whether, if the mom had decided to be a full-time mom, the girl wouldn't have felt "neglected" -- and pushed into the arms of phantom strangers.

This is an angle the liberal media never dare pursue, just as they never pursued the evidence that Dylan Klebold's problems began in daycare.

40 posted on 11/14/2007 11:43:44 AM PST by shhrubbery! (Max Boot: Joe Wilson has sold more whoppers than Burger King)
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