Nope, that wasn’t Lori Drew’s crime. Lori Drew, as an adult, impersonated a minor and a love interest in order to inflict emotional harm on a minor. The crime was so new and so atrocious, that Missouri’s State Legislature voted unanimously to enact “Megan’s Law” (not to be confused with the California law of the same name).

The law makes it a felony for someone 21 years or older to communicate with someone 17 years or younger by phone or electronic means in order to recklessly frighten, intimidate, or cause emotional distress to that person.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320274-38.html

What we’re doing here is vilifying Lori Drew for doing something so horrible, we had to make a law so we could prevent anyone from ever doing this again. Once upon a time, it was perfectly legal to get drunk and ride your horse around town. If you ran over someone, you could use the “I was drunk” defense. Then folks got angry enough that they passed laws. These laws, later, followed the car, airplane and hopefully will follow us into space. How exactly do we enact laws likes this?

Through public cause and action. Through informative, one-sided and brutal honesty that reveals the perpetrators of the first instances of the crimes to result in loss or near loss, as monsters and villains who deserve justice. We engage in character assassination.
You argue that “[we] re fast-tracking the whole human race to the point of complete irrelevance (meaning we have no future).” I retort, we instead are engaging in the natural and conclusively useful process that allows a mob, possibly composed of less than highly functional members to be guided by the injured into provided safety and succor. We harnessing the mob, and refusing the traditional bloody end of the mob by reserving our anger and judgements for the support of incarceration and convictions.

I think that’s fairly positive versus the alternatives of “letting this slide” or “letting the mob tear her to pieces.”

disclaimer: i know i’m bound to get some hate-mail for this post as well, and i say now that i’m sorry for your ignorance.

that is all.

Defaming a 13 year old girl with mental health issues, and defaming a 40+ year old mother who set up a fake MySpace account in order to embarrass said 13 year old girl are NOT one in the same.

To Lori Drew: Live by the sword, die by the sword. Unfortunately, because of your immature actions, your own daughter will now have a much more difficult time making friends. The first thing I do when I meet a new friend is Google their name, just to see what comes up. You can’t outlive this. Your family won’t outlive this. A terrible tragedy you helped create is now forever associated with your family name, all because of a spat between two teenage girls. Such a waste…

I had a bad depression in highschool. I cut my wrists and still have the scars to remind me of that darkest time. But obviously I didn’t follow through, because I had a good friend who I could trust.
Maybe Megan fell into the third category…Maybe she thought she couldn’t trust her parents. She already knew her friends had shafted her royally. Death was a release for her. No more pain, no more torment, no more taunting.