Alleged MySpace 'cyber-bully' indicted in teen's suicide - Los Angeles Times

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mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA found this 5/15/2008 on www.latimes.com [flag]
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles today indicted a woman of fraudulently using a MySpace.com account to "cyber-bully" a Missouri teenager who later hanged herself because she believed she was being rejected by a 16-year-old boy she met on the social networking website. Lori Drew, 49, of O'Fallon, Mo., faces three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain ... [link]

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LAT In 90 Seconds
Published 5/15/2008 at mediabistro.com: FishBowlLA
... This Never Woulda Happened On Friendster: A federal grand jury in L.A. indicted a 49-year-old woman of fraudulently using a MySpace account to "cyber-bully" a Missouri teenager "who later hanged herself because she believed she was being rejected by a 16-year-old boy she met on the social networking website." Yeah. Try living with that. ...

Radar's "Worst Person on the Internet" Finally Indicted
Published 5/15/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... a teenage girl into hanging herself because the poor kid thought she corresponding with an older guy crush old and not a sick, twisted adult: she's been indicted by a federal grand jury in Los Angeles on three charges of fraud and on count of conspiracy. Prosecutors were initially unable to charge Drew with anything because they couldn't find an appropriate statute under which to file charges. A grand jury in California, which is where MySpace is headquartered, eventually decided to pursue charges on the grounds that she had provided the site with false information. She is ...