Neighbor Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case - May 15, 2008

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Lori Drew Indicted For Inviting Megan Meier To Touch Her "Snake" [Drew No Blood]
Published 5/15/2008 by Moe at Jezebel
0515083inside1.jpg Lori Drew has been indicted ! (We totally want to marry the California courts today .) The Los Angeles feds have indicted the Missouri mom who masterminded the MySpace hoax that led 13-year-old Megan Meier to hang herself on charges of fraud and conspiracy in a case that probably has some... interesting First Amendment implications! But whatever, we are generally satisfied. Lori Drew, who created a fake MySpace profile for a 16-year-old named "Josh Evans" and used it to fuck with Megan in retaliation for ending her ...

Radar's "Worst Person on the Internet" Finally Indicted
Published 5/15/2008 at Radar: Fresh Intelligence Blog
... 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 now being charged with "accessing protecting computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress." ( The Smoking Gun has the full indictment.) Drew has maintained that she did nothing wrong, even ...