Lori Drew Indicted
Posted by TRO on May 16, 2008
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted a Missouri woman Thursday for her alleged role in a MySpace hoax on a teen neighbor who committed suicide after being spurned by the “boy” in the fake profile.
Lori Drew, of Dardenne Prairie near St. Louis, was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl.
Drew allegedly helped create a false-identity MySpace account to contact Megan Meier, who thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named “Josh Evans.”
Megan, 13, hanged herself at home in October 2006 after receiving cruel messages, including one stating the world would be better off without her.
Drew’s attorney, Jim Briscoe, did not return FOXNews.com’s requests for comment about the indictment.
Drew has denied creating the account and sending messages to Megan.
There’s a copy of the indictment at the link. I hope justice is served in this case. Long, hard, sweaty justice in a woman’s correctional facility.
May 16, 2008 at
I can’t believe (well I can, but you know what I mean) that a parent would do something like that to someone else’s child. It’s horrible.
May 16, 2008 at
Besides being an incredibly cruel and malicious woman, what a horrible role model she has been to her own kids. The whole story is so very sad.