A Mother indicted in MySpace suicide

[Truth Bearer]

US woman indicted in MySpace suicide

08:24 AEST Fri May 16 2008



An American mother has been indicted in connection with a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a fictitious boy.

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lori Drew, 49, on criminal charges of conspiracy and accessing MySpace computers "without authorisation to inflict emotional distress on the girl".

"This adult woman used the internet to target an innocent girl with horrendous consequences," Los Angeles US Attorney Thomas O'Brien said during a press conference announcing the indictment on Thursday.

"Any adult who uses the internet or a social networking website to bully another person, particularly a vulnerable teenage girl, should realise this has serious consequences."

Drew was among several adults who pretended to be a 16-year-old boy named "Josh" on MySpace, according to prosecutors. The girl met "Josh" in the online community after she opened her MySpace account in 2006.

"Within days Josh was telling her she was sexy," O'Brien said. "The flirting continued for three weeks."

Josh broke off the virtual relationship and sent the girl a message saying the world would be better off without her, according to prosecutors. Within an hour of receiving the message the girl hanged herself in her bedroom.

Drew and "co-conspirators" used her home computer to chat with the girl on MySpace and gleaned from online exchanges to "torment, harass, humiliate and embarrass" the girl, according to the indictment.

"MySpace does not tolerate cyberbullying and is cooperating fully with the US Attorney in this matter," MySpace said in a written reply to an AFP inquiry.

Drew deleted the "Josh" profile from MySpace after getting word that the girl, a neighbour, hanged herself, according to prosecutors.

"This adult hid behind cyber walls in cyberspace," Los Angeles FBI assistant director Salvador Hernandez said during the press conference.

"Whether the defendant could see the ramifications of this choice she is accountable for what happened. These actions are cruel and unjustified."

Each of the four criminal counts listed in the indictment carries a maximum prison term of five years.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=563880

[Truth Bearer]

Only in America you will get adult morons playing around like this.........This stupid ignorant bitch of a woman happens to be a mother too..........

[ellas_makedonia]

oh yeah!
i remember reading this in the US magazine!

its sad that people have to die because someone preferred to act like an "idiot"!

and yes Only in America!!!!

[Ariadni_Nefeli]

Psycho yankees m*ther frackers.

Hollywood zionism propaganda and genetically modified food have totally ruin their brain cells!




Τα κοροιδεύουμε, τα κοροιδεύουμε, αλλά μην τα λουστούμε φοβάμαι, όπως λουστήκαμε και άλλα.....

[Ehetlaios]

Αριάδνη, μην κοροιδεύεις τους αμερικανούς και τα 5000000 Ελληνοαμερικανών, γιατί θα φας ban από τον Ακρίτα.

[Ariadni_Nefeli]

Οι Ελληνοαμερικανοί δεν είναι Αμερικανοί και ούτε πρόκειται να γίνουν φίλε μου.... Και ευτυχώς που η Αμερική εισάγει εμπορεύματα απο την Ελλάδα και απο όλον τον κόσμο, και μπορούν να βρίσκουν Ελληνικά μαγαζια να αγοράζουν καλό Ελληνικό φαί τουλάχιστον, και να αποφεύγουν τα αμερικανικά ποτισμένα με κάθε λογής χημικό.

Ο κουμπάρος μου παντρεύτηκε Αμερικανίδα και ήρθε στην Ελλάδα πριν 10 χρόνια, και αν και διατηρεί το αμερικανικό στυλ στην μαγειρική της, λέει συνεχώς οτι εδώ τρώει σαν άνθρωπος και το χαίρεται!

Εγώ μιλάω γι αυτό το άθλιο φυλετικό συνοθύλευμα που δημιούργησαν και που κάποτε ενώ κοροιδεύαμε, τώρα μας κάνουν σαν και αυτούς...

[golden_earrings]

Οι Ελληνοαμερικανοί δεν είναι Αμερικανοί και ούτε πρόκειται να γίνουν φίλε μου...

Thanks so much for that Ariadni.....so true except for those who live in Texas...believe me, I should know....they are what we call "vremena psomia"

[Tsontos]

I have alot of respect for Americans and their country. You will always get phsychos in a country so big. In America they have something of everything; the good, the magnificent, the bad and the terrible.

I used to be pretty anti-american and seem to hate anything american like the above posters but I just think you cant hate a country like that. Not least because half the world based it's political and constitutional structures on it.