Federal subpoenas issued in Megan Meier case

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L.A. grand jury issues subpoenas in Web suicide case:

A federal grand jury in Los Angeles has issued subpoenas in the suicide death of Megan Meier from Missouri. For those of you living under a rock, Megan Meier, at the age of 13-committed suicide when a boy she met on MySpace rejected her and demeaned her. Except the MySpace boy wasn’t a boy at all but adult neighbor Lori Drew. Drew wanted to see if Megan was talking about Drew’s daughter behind her back.

Authorities in Missouri could not find anything to charge Lori Drew with, but the U.S. prosecutors in L.A. have taken a different approach. They’re thinking of charging Lori Drew with fraud for creating the fake MySpace. And why is this happening in L.A. you ask.

The prosecutors believe they have jurisdiction because MySpace — the would-be victim — is based in Beverly Hills, the sources said.

The subpoenas were issued to MySpace and what the article says are “witnesses in the case.”

Here’s hoping that there can be some modicum of justice for Megan Meier.

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7 responses to “Federal subpoenas issued in Megan Meier case”

January 8, 2008

Bay

About time someone stepped up to the plate for this youngster.

As I said before I just honestly do not think that the county it happened in that the prosecuting Attorneys have enough know how when it comes to cases involving internet and technology to bring about proper justice. Sadly when it comes to the net many times people get away with their crimes because they do it in a small town or to victims in small towns whose attorneys are not all that savvy on prosecuting internet crimes
I am very happy to hear at least in some small way there will be a tiny bit of justice for this child.

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January 9, 2008

Heather

I don’t think they will ever be able to prove who actually opened the my space account. Lori is now completely contradicting the original
police report by saying she had nothing to do with the account. Setting it up or sending messages. Oh, apparently, they were only ‘positive’ messages up until the last day. hummm.

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January 9, 2008

Dan

Bay was commenting elsewhere on her dining room cyber cafe. (Yay!) It made me think of how cool it would be to have some hip parenting classes available.

Education on parenting would be so helpful, but what the hell would it do for a mother like this? She’s a middle-school girl at heart, a particularly petty, selfish and cruel middle school girl who is desperately in need of severe intervention. She is not fit to parent.

People kind of fall into parenting. It’s what’s done. Well, we’re not monkeys. We’re not overburdened farmers using a hoe to feed our family. We have the luxury of putting some intentionality into parenting. And we have the very legitimate choice not to be parents. Just as making sex seem like an essential spiritual human right messes up pedophiles who still have a conscience, making parenting seem inevitable creates parents who should not have children.

Societies set standards for themselves. I fail to see why it is such a horror to intervene when someone does not meet basic standards. For someone who has had sex with children, we might consider that they never be permitted to conduct their sex life of choice. It’s against this society’s standards.

For someone who has bullied a girl to death, we might consider intervening in her parenting. Is that a radical breach of freedom? Too often we equate “freedom” with “anything goes.”

If we could ditch the lynch-mob mentality about things that revolt us, try to connect with the humanity in people, maybe we’d trust ourselves to be invasive in these ways. But it seems we take too much joy in our fantasized lynching to do this. We scare ourselves with our rage. It’s this lynching rage that makes us react to protect these people’s “inalienable rights.” Can we execute this woman because she is a grossly immature bully bitch? It’s not what we do. So while we’re scrounging around for some sort of punishment, she is mothering a daughter just like the one she bullied to death. To me, that seems like an obvious place to start.

Though it is by no means a total solution, don’t you feel a twinge of desire to forgive a pedophile who has himself castrated? When there has been some heinous murder, don’t you feel a moment of rightness when the murderer kills him or herself too? With no hope of forgiveness, I believe criminals abandon any attempt to change.

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January 9, 2008

sara

im glad someone is finally doing something.
is there any word on a civil suite yet?

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January 9, 2008

Trench

Haven’t heard anything lately.

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January 9, 2008

AG

OMG!!! This is wonderful news!!! I have been angry for so long- and finally this is just a tiny piece of justice that makes me so relieved- elated really!!!

I hope and pray progress continues to be made!
What a blessing!

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October 24, 2008

Worried mom

I am not sure if anyone has advice on this, but my daughters biological fathers mentally unstable new wife is posing as a teenage girl and trying to get information about our family. She is pissed that her husband has another kid and somehow seems obsessed &amp paranoid of me and daughter. She used to harass me on the phone until caller ID caught her doing it. I am worried about if she is doing this, what else she would do. We are pretty sure it is her, but authorities say we can’t do anything until she actually threatens my daughter. I am watching the MySpace page and waiting for her to do something stupid. Seeing first hand the messages that she sends my daughter is chilling. I just want to catch her and punish her for messing with a child, but there really isn’t any law against it.

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