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It looks as if Lori Drew, the Missouri woman accused of cyber bullying a teenage girl on MySpace who later killed herself, will walk free.  She supposedly posed as a teenage boy on the social networking site and developed a relationship with 13-year-old Megan Meier, before dumping her with the words "the world would be better off without." Meier committed suicide.  Drew, 50, was found guilty of illegally accessing… Read More

Lori Drew, the 49-year-old Missouri women alleged to have precipitated the suicide of a teenage girl through cyberbullying, has been found guilty of three counts of unauthorized access to MySpace. However, she was found not guilty of three more serious felonies of violating the federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Each of the guilty verdicts carries a possible penalty of a year in jail and a $100,000 fine. It’s believed Drew will… Read More

Lori Drew lived with her daughter in St. Louis. Next door was Megan Meier, who was 13. Meier and Drew’s daughter were reportedly friends, but fell out. And with that began a strange and tragic tale that’s ended in a courtroom. Prosecutors claim that after the girls argued Drew and others created the fake profile of a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans on social networking site MySpace. Allegedly, after starting an online… Read More

Cyber-bullying is a growing phenomenon among teens, but a Grand Jury has indicted Lori Drew, 49, in a strange and tragic instance of it. It’s alleged that she posed as a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans on MySpace, then befriended Megan Meier, 13. When the relationship ended it’s claimed that “Josh Evans” sent a message to Meier saying the world would be better off without her, one of several bullying messages she… Read More