Lori Drew
Posted on 05/15/2008 1:13:42 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Missouri woman who prosecutors say used a fake MySpace persona to "torment, harass, humiliate and embarrass" a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide was indicted on Thursday on federal charges.
Lori Drew, accused of participating in a hoax on 13-year-old Megan Meier that led her to believe she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy, was indicted on conspiracy charges by a U.S. District Court jury in Los Angeles.
Meier had what she thought was an online friendship with the fictional boy, "Josh Evans."
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Finally! This horrid woman needs to be locked up for a very long time (and perhaps “harassed” a little by her cellmates as well).
What the heck is wrong with people?
Good! I’m sure she didn’t mean for the girl to kill herself but what kind of adult does that to a junior high aged student? What a despicable thing to do.
Personally, I cannot see the pleasure one would get from tormenting another human being, whether physically or mentally.
I don't think she gave a damn. Sociopath. Mouth breathing waste of DNA. I can only hope she gets the cellies she deserves.
Can’t read article, at work just popping in but I remember hearing on the news right after it became public she was getting death threats and people were throwing stuff at her house. Awwww, so sad!
It will be interesting to follow this case. Lori Drew is a scumbag.
I hope she gets some jail time. She has devastated that child’s parents. She probably won’t see the inside of a jail. I hope every penny she ever made or makes is taken from her.
I think that's probably why it took so long to see any movement on this.....Local prosecutors didn't know how to apply law to a case like this. It really needed to go to the feds for some kind of case law to be established. I'm not advocating the fed, but I believe this is going to be a part of standard law for the future of cyber-based crimes such as this.
She is the most hated person in America. She is in the most hated list besides Fred Phelps, David Cash Jr., Michael Crook, and John Walker Lindh. If she goes to jail, inmates will gladly go after her. They don’t look too kindly to scumbags who hurt and kill children.
Actually, from what I have previously read about this case and this woman, I have no trouble believing that her ultimate goal was to drive the child to suicide.
She is ONE SICK PUPPY!
I read that she wanted to humilate Megan Meier in public. I read that Lori Drew is described by others as a mean, abrasive, clingy, and envious person. Not the kind of person I want to be around.
My thoughts as well...it will be interesting to see what ultimately comes of this.
You know there is a special place in hell for people like this.
Lori Drew is miserable scum, but I am dubious that a federal court, much less one in Los Angeles, has jurisdiction here. The theory is apparently that Drew committed wire fraud by misrepresenting “Josh”’s identity to MySpace. I am not sure that that charge will stick here.
Hangings too good for this piece of trash. No offense to trash intended.
I know what this woman did was terrible, but I wonder how it qualifies as a crime, federal or not. There are tons of spiteful comments which are continuously spewed through the Internet, so I’m not sure why her case is special.
I think that the best approachds for the case would be a civil suit against the perpetrator for harassment and the like.
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Agreed.
She can rot in Hell along with the Burmese Military Junta, Saddam Hussein, Seung-Hui Cho, and Ted Bundy.
What a bunch of freaking hypocrites. You are applauding a woman getting federally indicted for pretending she was someone other than herself on the internet. Lock up half the country, already including most of you.
What is wrong with you people?
Nobody was harrassed. What went on there meets NO legal definition of harrassment.
There were exactly ZERO attempts by the girl to break off contact.
There were exactly ZERO attempts by the girl to block the user in question.
“Torment”? Ridiculous. No reasonable person would have been “tormented” by a person she voluntarily chatted with on MySpace for a month.
“Oh, I am SOOOO tormented because those girls who I meet on MySpace really aren’t girls at all but the owners of adult sites. I’m soooooo tormented, who can I sue?”
You “conservatives” get the government you want. Enjoy it. Before smarting off to or zotting someone on this forum, you might take into account their mental well-being before doing so. You might find yourself under federal indictment.
Deval Patrick is a treasure isn't he! /sarc!
It may be that federal law offered some avenues for prosecution that state law did not. This occurred over the internet, using out of state MySpace servers, and that is likely how it was brought under federal jurisdiction, even though all parties involved lived in the same state. And federal conspiracy laws are a good deal more extensive than most state conspiracy laws.
We’ve had it happen here. One of our posters did suicide.
We should always think before we hit that post button.
Freedom comes with great responsibilities. The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. When did that poster here at FR committed suicide?
This went beyond “spiteful comments”. This was an adult who was personally acquainted with the minor target of her scheme, and knew the girl to be an insecure adolescent who’d never had any boyfriends in real life, and tailored the scheme to take advantage of this. The scheme was quite elaborate and went on for quite a long time. The woman also concealed her connection to the girl’s suicide for quite some time after she learned it happened (and actually never confessed until somebody with knowledge of her actions told police), and then she told some lies to investigators after the fact, trying to pin some of her own actions onto another minor.
We are very quickly becoming a nation of wussified pu$$ies..
“We should always think before we hit that post button.”
Agreed.
What makes me angry about this case is that no REASONABLE person would have committed suicide over it. That mother did not drive anybody to suicide. The girl had tried before. She had serious mental problems and was not the poor helpless, wilting violet that FReepers like to pretend.
Nobody was harrassed or bullied by ANY definitions of those words, other than the woman under federal indictment.
What happened to her was a damn shame but SHE DID IT TO HERSELF. Note to FReepers: Crazy people can be pretty little girls in braces.
Found this elsewhere: Lori Drew, 49, of O’Fallon, Mo., faces three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress and one count of conspiracy.
Lori Drew
Because she demonstrated malice aforethought and went to great lengths to ensure that her subterfuge would be undetected and would have maximum effect on her intended victim.
Because she is a waste of skin, basically.
And it has been established that Lori Drew knew this.
Your oversimplification of the issue notwithstanding, I believe a reasonable person can see the conspiracy here. The only difference between this and other crimes of conspiracy is in the medium used to commit the crime.
The adult sought to harm the 13 year old publically. She apparently did quite well in her objective.
Lori Drew’s comments early on how the suicide was “not her problem” gave enough insight into her mindset for me. I personally hope the scumbag is financially ruined trying to defend herself.
LOL!
No, wrong. She was compulsory in it.
I worked Psych. I see what you are saying, no one makes a person suicide, however, knowingly inventing a love interest, gaining the confidence of the girl and knowing that she has mental problems is compulsory. She had a hand in driving the child off the deep end and it was premeditated.
A couple years ago. Really nice guy, grew tomatoes and was on the gardening threads. It was well known that he was depressed and when we got the word, I remember sitting on a thread and crying.
Sometimes our cyberfriends mean so much. It was a time in my life where I had very young kids and had moved to a city hundreds of miles away from my family. FR was like a lifeline.
And the thing is, this girl was 13. Anyone who has been a 13 year old girl knows how easily the world can look horribly bleak. Her mother had yelled at her for language she used responding to the “boy”. Imagine what that mother is going through.
I wonder if she will have to register as a sex offender since she posed as a 16 year old and talked in a sexual nature to the girl. This was reported in an first reported story.
Hey, why are you insulting the sweet cow??
Where did you find that?
Sorry, I thought they were twins!
That’s what several other news outlets and AP had listed.
Sorry to hear that. I don’t want to know what Christina Meier is going through right now.
Don’t denegrate cows. Cows got more dignity than Lori Drew.
Don’t denegrate cows. Cows got more dignity than Lori Drew.
And to beat all, it was a mature woman who did it!
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