Posted on 11/12/2007 6:23:51 PM PST by Royal Wulff
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?"
"No, but look at him! He's hot! Please, please, can I add him?"
Mom said yes. And for six weeks Megan and Josh - under Tina's watchful eye - became acquainted in the virtual world of MySpace.
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Found story at Ace of Spades http://ace.mu.nu/archives/246297.php
How very sad.
RIP
Child welfare services ought to come and take the other girl away from her sorry excuses for parents. If they would set up and use a fraudulent MySpace account to torment an adolescent who they knew was mentally ill and carry this on for weeks or months, they can’t be trusted to raise an adolescent/teen themselves. Personally I think they ought to be locked up. At the very least, they should be forced to pay a massive civil damage award to the Meiers.
Ugh. What a horrible story. May she rest in peace
“Child welfare services ought to come and take the other girl away from her sorry excuses for parents. “
And put her in foster care? To destroy other lives along with the other one destroyed? That’s no solution.
This is a tragic story and I’m sorry for these people’s pain but a new law won’t solve this problem.
Wow - never imagined THAT kind of twist. How truly sad and heart-wrenching.
I showed this to my 15 year old daughter.
She said a hot guy you don’t know asking to be on your friends list is a set up; it just doesn’t happen, there are no hot guys on myspace.
I am going to try to phrase this carefully:
It seems to me it wouldn’t be difficult for people in Megan’s community to figure out who the guilty adults are.
Et cetera.
And you don’t trust anyone you don’t know personally.
Many of the kids she knows use it just as a bulletin board and have it restricted to only those people they know personally. They don’t accept anyone they don’t know and can lock them out if it appears someone is stalking them.
There are security features for the kids to use.
It does sound like this girl had other problems. I got all kinds of nasty things said about me during those years in jr high, and I hated those years. But I knew what was true about me and that it was lies and chose to ignore it. It’s sad that this girl had so many problems that something that should have been so insignificant caused such a tragic reaction.
The Meiers should reconsider their decision not to sue. Intentional infliction of emotional distress is normally a trivial claim, but in this case, it might prove to be far from trivial in court.
Chances are she’d be a lot better off in foster care. And it wouldn’t hurt her a bit to learn first hand that parents cannot get away with this sort of thing. It’s really amazing that they haven’t moved away. Since apparently many local people know the identity of the parents and girl involved, she’s growing up in a setting with teachers and peers and neighbors knowing that her parents are utterly immoral and unapologetic about it. Her parents have zero moral authority in their home, and this girl urgently needs to spend some time under the care of adults who regard this sort of behavior as unthinkable.
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