Uh-oh. Lori Drew is in trouble now.
Lori Drew has been indicted for her role in the deception of 13-year-old neighbor Megan Meier, who hanged herself after Lori Drew’s creation, a cute “boy” who was communicating with Megan Meier via MySpace, roughly rejected her via e-mail.
Back in January of 2008, People You’ll See In Hell mentioned that federal charges were possible for good ol’ Lori Drew.
Well.
On the 15th of May, 2008, a federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted 49-year-old Lori Drew on one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress. Federal officials were able to get involved because MySpace is based in Beverly Hills.
While Missouri authorities decided not to press charges against Drew for Megan’s suicide in October of 2006, Federal prosecutors launched a grand jury investigation aimed at determining whether Drew or others defrauded MySpace by providing false information.
Megan’s father, Ron Meier, welcomed the indictment and told the press:
I don’t know who is actually is going to end up paying for what happened to our daughter. I just want some justice after all this time,” Ron Meier said. “For the first time in as long as I can remember, I actually have hope.
Heck. He might be right. Let’s hear it for justice!
Thanks to Kelly, Emily, MindyS, PantalonesDeDios, Max the Cat and Brittany for the heads up.
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Admin - I just want to say you guys are cranking out the hits!
Keep up the good work. I’ve acquired quiet an appetite. (insert diabolical laughter here)
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Drew was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to get information used to inflict emotional distress on the girl.
Drew has denied creating the account or sending messages to Megan.
Each of the four counts carries a maximum possible penalty of five years in prison.
(excuse me while I have a “Jason” moment) lol
5yrs x 4 counts = 20 years
(thanks)
Now that’s twenty long years for Lori Drew if she is found guilty in a court of law on all charges.
Stay tuned folks - ha!
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that’s what I”m talking about
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It’s about time that woman had to own up to what she did. What a disgusting, childish pig of a woman.
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*claps* You know, it was that case on here that brought me to the lovely world of pysih.
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In a moral court, wrong
In USA law I think it is a stretch.
I hate to see lawyers bending the law to fit their own personal gain.
What Lori Drew did was wrong, but that girl obviously had deeper problms tha just what Lori did. People suffer extreme huniliation all the time, and dont kill themselves. I guess it was one of my loved ones, I may feel differently. I just think that it is not a issue for the courts. I mean no disrespect to the family, and only hope that they are learning to enjoy life without their precious daughter.
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Mulch reply on May 16, 2008:
Shut up. Wether or not the girl had problems is not the real issue here. The real issue is an adult who conspired to do the girl harm. that is what should be punished.
You can wish all the bullshit you wat. the girl had issues or what ever else makes you feel warm and fuzzy. But the bitch is the catalyst that killed that girl.
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Meaghan reply on May 16, 2008:
I agree. Megan Meier obviously had issues before Lori Drew came along, but the evidence strongly indicate Lori’s actions pushed her over the edge. Maybe the gun was loaded to begin with, but Lori Drew pulled the trigger.
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Penny reply on May 16, 2008:
Wring Wrong wrong! Megan killed herself, tragic as is is. She had many other choices. She could have sought help, she choose not to, and she choose to kill herself.
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TheLastPrincess reply on May 16, 2008:
Lori knew the girl had been treated for depression and used that against her. She is an evil despicable person. She knew the girl was vulnerable and decided to hurt her anyway.
Penny reply on May 16, 2008:
lORI IS an evil person, but so was my cousins ex when she cheated and took the kids. He later killed himself because he couldnt live with the pain. Should we start criminally prosecuting everyone who emotionally hurts someone and in part causes them to kill themselves?
becky reply on May 16, 2008:
Megan Meier was a CHILD!! How can you sit and defend the dispicable the dispicable things that Lori Drew did and said to this poor child?! Whether or not Lori Drew is found guilty and sentenced to time in prison, I know that she has a nice warm spot waiting for her in hell. She is a horrible excuse for a human being and deserves the worst possible outcome from this.
penny reply on May 16, 2008:
Becky- you obviously have problems with reading. I have never defended her actions. She was wrong, and does deserve hell. However, her actions were morally wrong not illegal.
Nissa reply on May 16, 2008:
Megan killed herself yes, but she was driven to it by a sadistic woman who used her years of experience in the game of life against her. She may have been on the cliff already, but Lori Drew is the one who pushed her off of it. A grown woman should know better then to mess with a psychologically damaged child.
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Pete Mitchell reply on May 16, 2008:
you piece of shit you have no Idea how an adult can manipulate a child, yes a child by some over 40 year old slut who has no life!
I hope you go to hell too you sperm swallowing asshole!!
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Kim reply on May 16, 2008:
wow….
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Sarah reply on June 14, 2008:
The girl did have issues. I’m guessing she told her friend that who told her mother that. Or maybe even the parents told Lori that as their children were friends. I’m guessing (easily) that Lori had knowledge of the mental state of Megan. Considering that they went on vacations together it’s not a hard jump that Lori knew.
As much as adults have and will have their own fights with each other online they are with people they have no knowledge of. This woman most likely knew that this CHILD was mentally unwell. Knowing that she still took steps that resulted in the death of a child. Megan hung herself 15 minutes after messages were read by this woman. There are multiple factors that go into this. Such as Megans overbearing parents who instead of teaching her how to handle bullying tried to protect her *but* if you as an ADULT knew that a child was suicidal and KNEW what it was like to be a 13 year old girl and still acted this way you should at least be tried for murder. You should at least be tried for wrongful death.
I would vote that she is guilty of both but that is simply a vote. The point of a trial is that it is up for a vote. There should be a trial that names Lori in the death.
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Lori Drew didn’t cause the girl to commit suicide.
Lori Drew is an immature, little bitch but Megan Meier must have also been very unstable.
Think back to Judas Priest and Ozzy Osbourne being accused of causing suicides of people that listened to their music, or people that kill themselves because their lover broke up with them.
People are responsable for their own suicides. That’s why it is called suicide.
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Meaghan reply on May 16, 2008:
That’s why Lori Drew isn’t being charged with murder, only with causing emotional distress, and it’s hard to argue she didn’t do THAT.
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mrs. drew is a pig. while the charges, unfortunately, might be a stretch, anything to make her life more difficult is ok with me. maybe she will choose the solution she so readily pushed someone else to.
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@ Miwist
The difference is that Ozzay & Judas Priest didn’t target a SPECIFIC individual– One that they were FULLY AWARE was mentally unstable– and push them into suicide. They wrote a generic piece of art that was heard by millions of people, and of those millions, a scant few killed themselves while coincidentally listening to that music.
Lori Drew TARGETED a specific person. She INTENDED to cause mental distress to a thirteen-year-old girl. She went through the DELIBERATE actions of creating a MySpace page with a false identity, posting a picture of a boy and misrepresenting herself as that boy, and SOUGHT OUT Megan Meier with the SOLE INTENTION of gaining her trust so she could humiliate and embarrass her in a public forum.
That is the act of a sociopath, and if she doesn’t get at least 10 years in prison, I hope she is browbeaten by enough people that she hangs herself in her own closet.
That, my friend, would be even-steven.
Actually, “even” would be if her own daughter killed herself due to the embarrassment of having a sociopath for a mother, but I wouldn’t wish that on a child (unlike Lori Drew), so I’ll settle for Drew seeing some justice in a federal court.
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Fred reply on May 16, 2008:
You said what I was going to say, and did a better job.
Lori Drew targeted her victim and there was clear intent. Lori Drew’s daughter should also be charged as well as she played a role as well.
I hope that Lori gets to spend time with Bernice, Bubba’s deprived wife while Obie (froma different account) keeps Bubba happy
Admin - I love the follow up that you are providing. Too many news sources do NOT do follow up and as a result the public does not know how these POS are, if at all, getting justice.
Here in CT a death row inmate was stabbed, unfortunately will most likely live and the incarcerated relative of another victim killed the perp in jail!
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admin reply on May 16, 2008:
You know, we do our best to keep our readers in the know about what’s going on with the people we write about. The problem is that we have a limited amount of time available to write, research and so on. It cuts into our Battlefield 2 time.
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Miwist reply on May 18, 2008:
I agree, Lori drew did target Megan. And I agree that Lori Drew is a horribly immature, despicable human.
But, sadly, the responsibility of the suicide rest squarely on Megan’s shoulders.
I am not defending Lori Drew. Society needs to push back on these bullies harder than they push their victims. I hope she is unable to walk down the street in peace, I hope people spit on her wherever she goes. Her named should be forever ingrained in the publics collective conscience, and her sin forever exposed.
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Shame that they cant give her a death sentence
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She bullied Megan, plain and simple, and I hope the immature pig suffers for it. Every time I see her big smiling face in the news it makes me want to put a boot in it.
This is the case that brought me here too. I haven’t commented before but I read here all the time.
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tell me how different it is what Lori did as a sexual predator choosing a name like “bunny girl”, selecting a profile pic of a cute underage teen girl and soliciting a young boy to meet only to molest the child?
She misrepresented herself for evil means plain and simple. She deserves punishment and that family deserves Justice.
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I hope they broadcast the trial on Cable TV/Internet stream.
This is good.
I think this one will be better than the OJ trial.
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Saw this on CnN yesterday, I knew this would end up here. I hope her and her fat ass lil helper end up in prison. :)
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I have a 13 year old daughter. Know what I would do to a grown-up who did something like that and caused my daughter emotional anguish? Much less to kill herself? I would beat the living SHIT out of her!! Oh yeah, then I would hang her with a belt. How in God’s name could a grown woman hurt a little girl like that? I know what it’s like to think a boy likes you then tells you some bullshit that breaks your heart. IT SUCKS!! I hope my little girl never has to go through that kind of hurt. I know a broken heart is inevitable during life, but I sure wish I could protect my kids from that like I did from the boogeymen when they were little. Of course my kids are pretty well stable when it comes to stuff like that, but there are many who are not. I feel sorry for them. This story pisses me off!!!
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I wish I could see the transcripts of those myspace notes between the Haggish Lori Drew and the teen she killed.
Because I’ve seen part of one, and have read other people on other sites implying that not only did LD and her minions pretend to be a teen boy, they wrote to the teen implying that he liked her or loved her or something along those lines, and she responded in that same manner. And, that there were sexual overtones to many of the notes- which, if you think about it for a teen, would be very stressful when he/she/it then said they hated her, that she was a slut and the world would be better off without her.
If so, LD is an even sicker bitch than I thought, and Chris Hansen should do a little show about her.
She can’t die soon enough for me.
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A pat on the back to the LA prosecutes.
Why did this take so long?
Jail the bitch, give justice to her parents.
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oh this just made my week. I knew I could count on you.
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In addition to charging Lori they should also charge the fat bitch Ashley Grills for her involvement (not sure if they can charge Drew’s daughter given her age). How heartless Lori was to put up this fake profile..even though she didn’t make that final hateful comment about the world being better off without Megan (that was Ashley) she probably wrote sick and perverted and hateful things all for the sake of causing this girl grief and humiliation (why does a 40 year old needs to pick fights with a 13 year old? how fucking immature) and obsessively trying to find out what had been said about her daughter like some deranged helicopter parent. Interesting how Ashely though said that final comment was supposed to anger Megan not contribute to her depressing feelings. Way to go Ashley (sarcasm). I hope Lori gets the full sentence or even better I hope she has to endure so much emotional distress that it causes her to kill herself. This world would be better off without her.
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TurtleMania reply on May 20, 2008:
Lori’s beaver smells like fish!
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Max The Cat reply on May 20, 2008:
Good one Turtle. That reminds me of a joke I heard once about Adam and Eve.: Adam was chillin in the Garden of Eden, when God happen to drop in.
“Hey Adam, How’s things?”
“Real good God, how about You?”
“Not bad son, not bad. So tell me, where’s Eve?”
“Oh, she’s down at the river taking a bath.”
“Me dammit! now all the fish are gonna smell like that!”
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TurtleMania reply on May 21, 2008:
This is good!
I’m a mental health clinician and want to address this comment to those who think a 13 yr old child with mental illness should be blamed for having committed suicide…
Mental illness is a medical condition, not a character flaw. Individuals with Major Depression often do not have the emotional tools needed to deal with trauma that people without this illness have. People with mental illness are often not able to see the “light at the end of the tunnel,” have impaired reason and judgment (due to chemical changes in their brains), and often are not capable of making reasonable decisions (thus the need for the involuntary commitment process). That is why so many people with Major Depression and Bi-Polar do suicide–they are at times incapable of problem-solving, feel overwhelmed, and despair. Even the Roman Catholic church recognizes that mental illness is a medical condition, and no longer consigns suicide victims to eternal damnation.
In addition to the issue of mental illness is the scientific fact that the regions of the brain that control reason and impulse control in youths under age 20 are not yet fully developed. Thus, we see the ingredients of the tragedy that unfolded in this young girl’s life.
The blame for this child’s suicide does not lie with the child or her parents–it lies with Lori Drew.
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Miwist reply on May 24, 2008:
If we want to put it in this context, then yes, her parents do share some of the burden of guilt. As parents, they should have recognized that Megan was ill, and sought appropriate care for her well being.
I do not defend Lori Drew. I think she is a poor excuse for a human.
What she did was childish and mean-spirited, but I don’t believe her intent was to cause Megan to commit suicide.
I am well aware that mental illness is a medical condition. I am also aware that most illnesses are treatable.
My wife is being treated for severe depression with medication, therapy, and behavior modification. Our 12 year old son is also being evaluated and treated for mental illness. We take responsibility for the illness and understand that we can’t expect the whole world to change because they have an illness. Things happen everyday that may upset the balance, and we need to deal with it.
We don’t expect people to always be nice and polite because it may upset us. My wife and son have learned how to cope with things that have previously pushed them to the edge. That’s just part of life.
As a mental health clinician, I sure you understand that the person with the illness cannot control all factors of their lives and must learn techniques to cope with the uncontrollable or they are doomed.
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penny reply on May 24, 2008:
So was it Lori or her mental illness?
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kathy reply on May 24, 2008:
From what I understand from reading the news articles, Megan was on some type of psychiatric medication. I don’t know if she was in therapy, but if she wasn’t, she needed to have been. Maybe her parents didn’t realize the extent of her depression (teenagers aren’t always forthcoming with such information).
While Lori Drew may not have intended for Megan to commit suicide, if she knew that Megan was on psychiatric meds and still decided to play this cruel mind game with her, then she should be held accountable for her actions (in my opinion).
As a final thought–I think this tragedy should make parents more cautious about allowing their children who are under the age of 14 to set up MySpace accounts. Young children just don’t have the maturity to handle whatever predators they may encounter on that site.
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Words have power. Words have power over life and death. God spoke and there was light. The devil spake through a serpent and tempted Eve to commit sin. Hitler spoke and millions died. Mother Theresa spoke and the poor and hungry were comforted. Behold the Word of God. Behold His Mighty Justice. Woe to those who bring despair to children.
Matthew 18:6
But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea.
7″Woe to the world because of the things that cause people to sin! Such things must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!
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