megan meier redux

[seperis]

Update to the Megan Meier case.

To recap, in case the name doesn't ring any bells (pulled from my post here):

Short version: thirteen year old girl and best friend break up. Thirteen year old girl meets boy on myspace. Thirteen year old girl and boy become friends. Thirteen year old girl and boy talk. Boy starts to send unpleasant messages. Boy becomes cruel. Thirteen year old girl with a history of known depression kills herself. Boy turns out to be an imaginary construct of the parents of the broken-up-with best friend.

Parents, adults that knew this girl and how to fuck with her.

So it's been a year and change. Lori Drew, the perpetrator, was tried and charged with several misdemeanors, according to yahoo here.

Quote from original article:

A Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyberbullying case was convicted Wednesday of only three minor offenses for her role in a mean-spirited Internet hoax that apparently drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide.

The federal jury could not reach a verdict on the main charge against 49-year-old Lori Drew — conspiracy — and rejected three other felony counts of accessing computers without authorization to inflict emotional harm.

Instead, the panel found Drew guilty of three misdemeanor offenses of accessing computers without authorization. Each count is punishable by up to a year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Drew could have gotten 20 years if convicted of the four original charges.

If nothing else, the public humiliation and scorn she's received, and will continue to receive, are something.

Comments

[seperis.livejournal.com]

Yes, this.

And public shunning and humiliation works for me big time.

[ladyholder.livejournal.com]

Oh, me too. And I really hope that she stays in that town so people can keep shunning her.

~L

[delle.livejournal.com]

I am perfectly satisfied with public shunning and humiliation. Because charging her with a felony because she used a fake name on line? Is a really bad precedent. But what she did goes so far beyond heinous...