L.A. grand jury issues subpoenas in Web suicide case

[RamboLiberal]

Source: LA Times

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has begun issuing subpoenas in the case of a Missouri teenager who hanged herself after being rejected by the person she thought was a 16-year-old boy she met on the social networking site MySpace, sources told The Times.

The case created a national furor when authorities revealed that the "friend" was really the mother of one of the girl's former friends.

When the woman abruptly ended the online relationship, telling 13-year-old Megan Meier that the world would be a better place without her, Megan hanged herself in a closet as her parents were downstairs preparing for dinner.

Local and federal authorities in Missouri conducted an investigation into the circumstances surrounding Megan's death but were unable to find a statute under which to charge Lori Drew, the woman who allegedly perpetrated the hoax.

Prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles, however, are exploring the possibility of charging Drew with defrauding MySpace by creating the false account that she, her daughter and another person used to communicate with Megan, according to the sources, who insisted on anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly about the case.


Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-myspace9jan09,0,5809715.story?coll=la-home-center

[MadMaddie]

1. I suppose any charge is better than nothing..

I hope suffers the rest of her life from the ghost of the young girl She deserves to rot in hell.

Grown ass women fucking around with the mind of a vulnerable teen girl.

[FreepFryer]

2. The woman deceived and tormented that young girl and she deserves to be punished. n/t

[7 of 11]

4. In my book that is called child abuse

Now let's take proper recourse!

[High Plains]

3. That's a stretch. I suspect grasping federal prosecutors...

...looking for that career-making case.

[progressivebydesign]

5. that's a total waste of tax money.

A federal case for getting a fake myspace account? Sounds like some political type in Missouri is trying to score brownie points. The thing they did was stupid.. but it probably happens every single day on Myspace. The poor girl was already battling depression issues apparently and on medication. She was in trouble with her parents that day because they caught her posting bad things online, when she was not supposed to, and was going to get in trouble for that. Who knows truly what made her kill herself... the idiots that made the fake profile did it because the girl was posting nasty shit about them online. Happens every day.

[Donnachaidh]

6. Good. Maybe it will make the next sick fuck think twice before doing what she did.

I hope they NAIL this woman. Big time.