Since last year, I have been following the Megan MySpace case out of Missouri. The details are depressing. When a lonely, overweight teen, Megan Meier, cut off a friendship with one of the neighbor children (for whatever reason) the neighbor’s psychopathic mother decided to get “revenge” for her daughter by setting up a fake MySpace account to woo Megan and dump her. Now this bitch will finally be brought up on charges. She may get up to 20 years in prison if convicted. Now she will be SOMEONE ELSE’S bitch.
Here, in this video, you can see some of the people involved discuss the new development in this case. This is a landmark because no one has ever done hard time for an Internet harassment case. I’m not holding my breath that this will open the floodgates for ti’s to get help, however.
In case you’ve been living under a rock, in 2006, this woman, Lori Drew, and some of her friends from work and some of her daughter’s friends created a character named “Josh”, an older teen, who would build up Megan and “fall in love” with her only to suddenly dump her in the cruellest possible way. Megan did not survive. One hour later she was on the end of a rope in her closet. A few days later, physical death took place at a local hospital. She would have been 14 in a couple of weeks.
People will forget this detail, so I will point it out: after “Josh” rejected her, whory-Lori’s friends used the IM feature of the computer to pile on Megan calling her all kinds of names and convincing her to destroy herself. That probably did more damage than “Josh” rejecting her..the feeling of being ganged up upon and piled on is even worse than a controversy with another human being. The perps know that…who wants to bet whory Lori is also a perp? Maybe, maybe not..after all, she might have to PAY for what she has done, and the freaks never get punished.
Someone named Sarah Wells managed to use the Internet to trace back the MySpace account to the Drew household and the big controversy began over a year after the actual suicide took place. Lori decided to play down the death and told Ms. Meier to “move on”. The bitch and her husband even tried to press charges because Megan’s parents destroyed a FOOSBALL TABLE the Meier’s were keeping for the Drews. How’s that for perpy coldness? After the controversy became known to the world, the Drews retained their hard stance even opening an “anonymous” Blogger account debasing Megan’s character, painting her as an outcast weirdo that annoyed her peers. (sound familiar?). Thousands of comments flew from the sites that covered the suicide and I spent hours one night trying to read them all. Some were in sympathy for Megan and some were NOT, if you can believe it.
The detractors called Megan a loser and a whore and a mental case…it all sounds sooo familiar.
As a final note, Megan was on psychoactive drugs for “depression” and “ADHD” amongst other things which might have led to her suicidal impulsivity.
