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After Tina Meier's 13-year-old daughter was cyberbullied on MySpace by a grown woman named Lori Drew, she took her own life on October 17, 2006. Now, Tina's facing her former neighbor Lori in court in the nation's first cyberbullying case. Tina spoke with momlogic about all she's been through ... and her message for moms everywhere.
Do you think Lori Drew should be found guilty of computer fraud and misuse? Comment below.
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YES. She should be charged with murder.
- Anonymous
My personal opinion is that Lori Drew is responsible for having taken part in the death of Megan. As an adult, she should have said, “no, this is wrong.” My heart goes out to Megan’s parents, family and friends. In my opinion, something more needs to be done with the sites like MySpace. It is too accessible. No way to tell who is who, who is telling the truth, etc. I have seen it too many times. Boys, girls, teens, adults—whatever, they do not have the guts to say things in person, but they can say whatever they want on Myspace, to people they do not even know. I read my teenager’s MySpace and I was shook. The words that were on her MySpace that I have never heard come out of her mouth and her friends were all the same way. The teenage boys (they say they were teenage boys-let’s put it that way) talking to her about sex. The so-called friends telling my daughter, who also was suffering from depression, telling her that when she came back from her Uncle’s house, that they would have a big party for her and get her all the “cigs, beer, and pot” she wanted. I sent it straight to the police, with a little copy/paste into an email with a copy of the girl’s picture. When I contacted MySpace about my daughters site, I was told that I have to have her username and password and I can delete the sire myself. I contacted several different times stating that I wanted it removed—NOTHING. I carbon copied in the FBI computer crimes unit-NOTHING. I try everyday to protect my child and when I ask for help from people I think SHOULD help like MySpace—NOTHING. My daughter is no longer allowed on MySpace. We have no computer at home for that reason. She knows when she goes to a friends house, I will check her site to make sure she was not. I will spend hours searching for people matching her critera, just to make sure she did not create another. MySpace (and related sites)is the worst thing a child, pre-teen,and/or teenager can get their hands on.
- clb1970
Changing myspace or other sites won’t stop people from hurting others. Parent’s need to have control over what their children are doing. Even if that means no computer in the house or no cable tv.
- Tracy
Lori should definitely be found guilty of computer fraud and misuse but murder, no, as Megan took her own life. This is a sad situation from every way you look at it. Tina needs to start taking some blame here also for allowing her 13-year-old daughter to have a MySpace account in the first place and not monitoring it properly and seeing who was sending her messages and what types of messages. It plainly says when opening up an account that you have to be at least 14 or 15 to even have a MySpace account (I don’t have one so I’m not sure exactly). I know kids will go behind their parent’s backs anyway and open them but this parent knew she had one and still was unaware completely that she was getting these types of harassing messages. She should have had her password and username and should have been checking her account every few days if not every day as MySpace is such a dangerous place to be. She also should have been talking to her about proper computer etiquette, especially while on such a site as this. If she did do this and Megan still found ways to cover up the harassment then there was nothing she could have done and what happened was inevitable falls back to Lori who should have acted like more of an adult regarding the whole situation and should have just let the kids be kids and worked things out in their own way. No matter what it’s sad because both Lori and Tina are “doing time” for this in their own ways for the rest of their lives, although Lori deserves to do time in an actual prison whereas I think Tina has been through enough already.
- Angie B.
yes she should.
- Anonymous
Nope. just because she was making fun of someone doesnt meen she should be charged with murder. murders should be charded with murder, not people who mess around. huge fucking difference.
- anon
I belive that she should be charged with something more than just computer fraud. I think that assisted suicide, abuse of a minor, and/or manslaughter should be in play in this case. She was an adult that decided to get inside of the head of a thirteen year girl. It is sick and reprehensible and she is at least partially responsible for her death. I think anyone that does not think so is out of touch with what it is like to be a 13 year old. I have a daugher close to that age, and I was that age, do you remember what is was like being 13, then imagine that combined with all of the other things kids deal with these days. For a grown woman, to intentionally create the account to harass her and then carry it out to me shows Intent, malice, disregarding the safety of the victim, assault (using the computer) and wreckless abandon. Lori needs to be not just fined, but institutionalized, she is a sick, viscous woman that decided to attack a child for her sick devious and psychotic reasons. Lock her up for the rest of her life, do not allow her access to any communication with the outside world, and make her think every day for the rest of her life, what she did to Megan.
- Rose
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