...her on networking site MySpace. The mother, Lori Drew, created a fake teen boy persona who first flirted with neighbour Megan Meier, then dumped her. Meier took her own life shortly afterwards. Drew was convicted of three misdemeanour counts but cleared of...
...A resident of a quiet Missouri suburb who ran a coupon-book business from her house, Drew set out to harass a girl named Megan Meier, a former friend of her daughter's. With the help of her daughter and a teenaged employee, she used a fake MySpace page to...
...access to MySpace's computers with the intention to commit a tortious act (inflict intentional emotional distress on Megan Meier) and one count of conspiracy to obtain unauthorized computer access with the intent of committing a tortious act. Here's how the...
...e-mail attacks (or sometimes spurring a young woman she worked with to do that). Twenty minutes after "Josh" sent 13-year-old Megan Meier, Drew's daughter's erstwhile friend, the message "the world would be a better place without you," Megan hung herself in...
...Lori Drew of misdemeanors for posing as a teenager on MySpace and writing messages believed to have driven 13-year-old Megan Meier to commit suicide. The prosecution is seen as the first cyber-bullying conviction under laws normally used to prosecute computer...
...economy. In a poll last week, we asked our readers to point fingers at those most responsible for the fates of Megan Meier and Abraham K. Biggs -- two teen victims of cyber-bullying who resorted to suicide. Facebook, often accused of maintaining a walled-garden...
...with her young daughter and a business associate to create a fictitious profile of a 16-year-old boy on MySpace to harass Megan Meier, apparently in an effort to humiliate Megan for saying mean things about her daughter. The "boy" sent flirtatious messages...
...Drew, an adult woman, lied and misrepresented herself as a young boy to harass 13-year-old Megan Meier. Drew knew Megan was emotionally fragile. Instead of openly harassing Megan, Drew used her computer to hide behind the anonymity of a social networking website. This...
...Abraham Biggs, 19, broadcast his death recently on BodyBuilding.com (âWeb Suicide Viewed Live and Reaction Spur a Debateâ), and Megan Meier, 13, killed herself two years ago after being cyberbullied by a woman posing as a teenage boy (âClosing Arguments in...
...holdouts did not believe e-mails used as evidence showed that Drew was acting maliciously or intended to harm 13-year-old Megan Meier. Voters in Georgia went to the polls Tuesday to elect a U.S. senator and possibly move the Democrats closer to a filibuster-proof...