Posted on 12/07/2007 12:49:32 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
n army of Internet avengers has set out to destroy Lori Drew and her family.
With ruthless efficiency, they have learned the identity of the suburban St. Louis woman whose cyberspace meddling appears to have played a role in the suicide of a 13-year-old neighbor girl.
They have published her address, phone numbers and photos, and harangued the clients of her advertising business.
The Drew family has fled its home. Their teenage daughter is living apart from her parents, for her safety. The advertising business is closed.
And still the online avengers forge on, seeking the whereabouts of Lori and Curt Drew and vowing them no peace, ever.
The irony is rich. Lori Drew’s use of the Internet to meddle in the life of another person has earned her worldwide scorn. And now a legion of strangers, under the guise of justice, is stooping to her level.
“They’ll basically end up doing the same thing to that family and their daughter that they did to Megan,” Lt. Craig McGuire of the St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department told the Riverfront Times, a weekly newspaper in St. Louis.
The story of a cyberspace stunt that went horribly wrong was first published Nov. 11 in the St. Charles Journal. Writer Steve Pokin meticulously detailed how 13-year-old Megan Meier struck up a friendship on her MySpace page with a cute teenage boy named Josh.
But Josh was a phantom created by Lori Drew, her daughter and an older teenager who worked for Drew. They used him to gain access to Megan’s MySpace page and monitor what Megan was saying about Drew’s daughter.
The charade ended with Megan receiving a spate of nasty messages from the person she believed was Josh.
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In spite of what this apologist would have you believe that's not what the District Attorney and the police think, they would love to charge this nitwit but what she did is so bizarre they didn't have anything to charge her with. I don't feel the slightest bit of sympathy for her or her family, they are reaping what they've sown.
what goes around comes around.
what goes up must come down.
turn about is fair play.
Nonetheless, it doesn’t make the avengers right. And thank God the Drew family hasn’t lost a child.
>>“They’ll basically end up doing the same thing to that family and their daughter that they did to Megan,” Lt. Craig McGuire of the St. Charles County Sheriff’s Department told the Riverfront Times, a weekly newspaper in St. Louis.
Sounds like justice to me... Ain’t karma grand?
Shrug.
Just doing what the Prosecutor and the Police cannot.
Here is a really good rule of life, keep your 13 year old off MySpace. Stick your computer in the living room, sit behind your child as she surfs. When idiots like this come around, a parent should be with that child.
I’m on MySpace to talk to my family in Cleveland. You would not believe the amount of people that want to be my “friend”.
I finally put a warning at the top of my page states, “If I don’t know you, you can’t be my friend. Don’t even ask.”
Parents, know what your kids are doing on a computer. The best filter is mom or dad behind your back.
Truthfully...there is no law that was broken....thats the sad part about what happened. So the online avengers...are the only law we have in the land...to extract revenge. My guess? The woman and the husband will have to resettle in some state out in the west. The daughter? Probably will stay with some distant relative or friend in another state. The big problem here....is getting new identities...which legally will be tough. I’m guessing the parents will resort to changing their names by early spring...and the daughter will rejoin them by summer of next year....in some distant state. You can bet...there won’t be a single computer in this house.
True. But there's always that "last straw." IN this case, it would appear the last straw would be the sudden onslaught of insults and loss of a percieved boyfriend. It's a real pity that Police and the DA can't seem to find a crime here. Depraved indifference, manslaughter.
“They’ll basically end up doing the same thing to that family and their daughter that they did to Megan,”
Play up as being their only friend in the world and possible love interest only to stab them verbally in the heart, mock them, and drive them to suicide by saying that the world will be better off without you?
Only then will they be doing THE SAME THING.
No law broken? There are all sorts of online predator laws that target adults who correspond with children and lie about their age.
Turn your profile to private and toggle the setting that says something about someone requiring your email address or last name to even be able to “ask” to add you.
Anyone can still EMAIL you, but it’ll drop down the signal to noise ratio.
You can also set your age to 99 so that people searching 18-35 won’t find you as someone “their” age in their community.
I like the way you think.
Stunt? It was a horrible and malicious hoax perpetrated on a vulnerable 13-year-old girl by an adult.
Three cheers for the "avengers". Maybe the bitch will think twice before pulling this kind of crap again.
Well, then if what this woman did to that little girl wasn't a crime, what's being done to her in turn by others isn't a crime either.
Seems to me this b%tch is getting off easy... let her live the rest of her life being harrassed as far as I’m concerned.
I hope she spends the rest of her life being shunned and hated by everyone around her. And yes - if her harassment of that child wasn’t “wrong” then neither is the payback she’s getting.
Good, she deserves to be destroyed.
“Three cheers for the “avengers”. Maybe the bitch will think twice before pulling this kind of crap again.”
As the mother of a special ed girl who has been the brunt of jokes for years, Megan’s story really hit home for me. And so, I will admit to thinking how easy it would be to play the Drews’ own trick against them when I first read about Megan’s death.
“Parents, know what your kids are doing on a computer. The best filter is mom or dad behind your back.”
AMEN!
AMEN!!
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