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| | Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl | |
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+6violetriddle harry_potter_rules_27 LOONYkim Cheery Caroru kathrineee_anne 10 posters | Author | Message |
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kathrineee_anne 5th Year
Country : Regist. date : 2007-08-11 Number of posts : 4857 Age : 29 Location : Ragin' Cagin' (you know you love us...) Real First Name : Katherine Warning : House : slytherin. Crest : Wand : Willow and Dragon Heartstring Award Bar :
| Subject: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Thu Nov 29 2007, 13:29 | |
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- Megan Meier, 13, killed herself after a fake online admirer, allegedly created by a neighborhood mom, mocked her in cyberspace.
He called himself Josh Evans and the photo on his Myspace page was enouhg to get the pulse of any teen girl racing: It depicted a bare-chested young guy with wavy brown hair and rock-hard abs. But the best thing for 13-year-old Megan Meier was that he really seemed to like her. Not long after striking up an online flirtation with the eighth grader from Dardenne Prairie, Mo., Josh, who said he was a 6'3" 16-year-old, told her he thought she was "hot." For six weeks he was all sweetness and flattery. And then one day, as suddenly as it had all started he began trashing her online. According to Megan's mother, Tina, in his last message he told her, "the world would be a better place without you." A few hours later, a distraught Megan, who suffered from depression, committed suicide by hanging herself with a belt in her bedroom.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, Tina Meier and husband Rob, both 37, tried to get in touch with Josh-not to place blame on someone they believed to be a teen, but to offer a life lesson in how hurtful words can be. To their horror, though, they discovered that there was no Josh, that the whole thing had been concocted not by an immature kid, but by a neighborhood mother, Lori Drew, whose own daughter had had a falling out with Megan. Even now, a year after Megan's death-it took that long for some of the key parties to speak publicly-Tina Meier can barely contain her fury. "To my dying breath," says Meier, a real estate agent, "I feel what they did was absolutely criminal," referring to Lori Drew, 48, and husband Curt, 51, who supposedly knew about the hoax but did nothing to stop it.
Many others in the community share Tina Meier's outrage, especially now that it appears there may be no grounds for prosecuting anyone in the case. The Drews' home, which is four doors down from the Meiers', has been vandalized several times. Indeed, authorities are worried about the Drews' safety. "Any time we have that kind of emotional situation," says Lt. Craig McGuire of the St. Charles County Sheriff's Dept., "it causes a great deal of concern."
For the Meier's, one of the saddest aspect's of their daughter's death (October 17, 2006) is that it came just as her life seemed to be on the upswing. For years, she had battled a weight problem. Her mom says Megan, who had been diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, had suicidal thoughts when she was in the third grade and was on the antidepressant Zoloft. Still, she was looking forward to her 14th birthday party on November 4. She had lost some weight, her braces were coming off, and she had a new birthday outfit: a sleveless dress with polka dots, and a silver tiara. "She joked about having her dad carry her down the stairs in a chair," says Tina.
It is unclear what prompted the hoax. According to a sheriff's report, which mentions Lori Drew by name, the neighborhood mother maintained ina an interview that she had created the "Josh" account on Myspace, but said it was to moniter what Megan was saying about her own daughter. She insisted that "somehow" other Myspace users had been able to access the fake profile. But according to another neighbor, Michele Mulford, whose daughter carpooled with the Drews, Lori seemed to take delight in the prank. "They bragged about this to my daughter," says Mulford, who didn't know about the deception at the time, but was the one who informed the Meiers after finding out.
On the day Megan hanged herself Tina could see that her daughter was upset. Shortly before dinner she had raced up to her room, sobbing. When Tina didn't hear anything from upstairs in about 20 minutes she got concerned. When she went up she found Megan hanging in her closet. She died the next day. "I held her in my arms as they took all the moniters off," says Tina. "I held her until she took her last breath." When she and ron, a machinist, later found out about Lore Drew's involvement, they took turns destroying a foosball table the Drews, incredibly, had asked them to hide as a Christmas present for their own kids.
Local authorities and a federal prosecutor looked into the case, but none could find any criminal law that had been broken. County prosecutor Jack Banas has vowed to file any charges he can, but he is optimistic. "This is a problematic case," he says. The town has drafted an ordinance that would ban cyberbullying and the Meiers are pursuing a civil case against the Drews. For now, the grieving parents have only the memories of burying their daughter in the birthday dress she never got to wear.
-"People" magazine R.I.P Megan Meier. May God be with you. | |
| | | Caroru HE Owl
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| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Tue Dec 04 2007, 04:15 | |
| Seriously!? This happened? o_____O Oh my God...
If only words can do such thing, then... well, Internet sucks.
See, this is why I hate MySpace!! (Okay, maybe not over this, since this is the first time I read about this...)
I'm sorry if I have hurt anyone o____O I'm just going to... shut up. Stop typing my opinions so strongly.
But seriously, suicide over that? Maybe she took it extra strongly and all, but I wouldn't kill myself over something on Internet. I would... throw the computer out, if I really got angry. It's easy to say that now, but... well, no one can really put themselves in Megan's situation, right? Good thing with Internet is that you can always choose to not go there, and just ignore the people there - you can't do that with your real life.
I'm sorry if this was too harsh, I'm just... a bit overwhelmed o____O | |
| | | Cheery 1st Year
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| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Wed Dec 05 2007, 15:40 | |
| I actually live near where this happened and I can't believe that anyone could be so cruel. That's horrible and I hope that they charge the mother that did this strongly. She should know better than to manipulate someone like that for so long, especially a child. As teenagers, we're already having a hard time and for a MOTHER to do this to find out if another girl is talking about her daughter...that's just...there isn't a word for it. Immature, irresponsible. Megan's family has and will continue to be in my prayers. | |
| | | LOONYkim 1st Year
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| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Fri Feb 22 2008, 22:58 | |
| i heard about this. so cruel, what kind of mother would do that, to a child? who think's that is funny?? *tear of distress and anger* the world is so cruel, and that mother gets what she gets.*breaks out the spray paint* naw, jk, but really, that horrible... how immature!! | |
| | | harry_potter_rules_27 1st Year
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| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Sat Mar 29 2008, 09:36 | |
| This is terrible! Definitely immature.
So sad.
RIP Megan | |
| | | violetriddle 5th Year
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| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Sat Mar 29 2008, 09:58 | |
| I almost started crying. Thats really pathetic for a parent to do that! | |
| | | harry_potter_rules_27 1st Year
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| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Sat Mar 29 2008, 11:55 | |
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| | | ginnyunited 1st Year
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| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Fri Apr 04 2008, 11:29 | |
| I heard about that. That's soooooooo sick. Ugh. I can't believe someone would do that to a kid. | |
| | | ag167 1st Year
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| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Sat Apr 05 2008, 02:22 | |
| You can't believe a parent would do that, she had a daughter and i bet she wouldn't think it was a laugh if it happened to her kid
RIP Megan. In Heaven may no-one trouble your soul.
~AG
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| | | amberg93 Deputy Head : Gryffindor HoH : Arithmancy & Arts & Muggle Studies Professor : 5th Year
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| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Wed May 28 2008, 14:57 | |
| Horrible to hear that things like this happen, and it depresses me that someone would even do something like that to a young girl. It is being brought into the light right now though again. I just logged into myYearbook and they have her story there plus there is a new "Meghan Pledge" to help stop cyberbullying from happening. | |
| | | kathrineee_anne 5th Year
Country : Regist. date : 2007-08-11 Number of posts : 4857 Age : 29 Location : Ragin' Cagin' (you know you love us...) Real First Name : Katherine Warning : House : slytherin. Crest : Wand : Willow and Dragon Heartstring Award Bar :
| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Wed May 28 2008, 16:33 | |
| The mother that led to her death has been charged with, I believe, fraud, hacking into MySpace, and one or two other things. Shes facing jail time, I believe. | |
| | | serena07 1st Year
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| Subject: Re: Crule Hoax Leads to Death of 13 year old girl Mon Oct 05 2009, 00:51 | |
| i think there could be already planned by someone for such time . . but the final she was no more to be alive & my sympathy words always with her to ask the GOd to save her for good new one life . . . | |
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