Arraignment scheduled in LA in MySpace suicide case:
Lori Drew is scheduled to be arraigned in a Los Angeles federal court on June 16th.
Drew was indicted on conspiracy and basically hacking charges as it relates to the harassment induced suicide of 16-year-old Megan Meier
I don’t think this Lori Drew woman should be charged with anything. I think that what she did was silly, mean and immature, but can she really be blamed for the suicide?
I mean c’mon, if the girl killed herself over something as trivial as a boy not liking her anymore, she was clearly a ticking time bomb. What would have happened had she actually started dating, had a ‘real’ break-up? If a virtual break-up made her kill herself, what would a IRL break-up have made her do? Obviously something even worse. And had that happened, would the boy be charged? Of course not. The point is that the teenage years are full of little hurts- falling-out with friends, break-ups with boys, embarassing mishaps. It doesn’t sound like this girl was destined to make it through those years with her mental health being as it was. This girl was obviously extremely unstable and volatile, and her parents should have done more to get her the help she needed. They should have known how fragile she was, and had her in an institution. How could Lori Drew be expected to know how unstable she was, when even the parents didn’t seem to. They are more responsible than Lori Drew, I think.
Considering they were getting her counseling for the situation, the Meiers clearly knew something was wrong w/their daughter…she had her probs, but that def wasn’t grounds for being institutionalized. Lori was the one who pushed her over the edge and put the noose in her hand, so she deserves w/e she gets.
They had her in counselling, but why on earth, at 13 years old, did she have a Myspace?? According to their guidelines, wasn’t she too young? Why were her internet activities not being supervised? And why would the parents think it was a good idea for her to be online in the first place- surely they’d heard about the kinds of things teens are up to on these social networking-type sites. Not the place that most parents would want their young teens, especially a young teen with mental health issues.
As much of an idiot as Lori Drew is, it sounds like the parents need to accept their own responsibility in all of this.
And again, the things that Drew wrote to her were pretty mild compared to things teens say to one another every day. Obviously this girl had severe self-esteem problems- where did those come from, I wonder? Again, one has to look to the parents. Kids don’t end up with emotional problems like that without something having gone on within the family.
Lori Drew sounds like a mama bear who stooped to some juvenile behaviour. Calling it criminal is a stretch.
What happens, for example, if you call somebody in, say, a chat room, a ‘moron’, and they kill themselves? Should you be charged with something? Charged only if you did it while using a fake name? Somebody needs to come up with some guidelines for this, because this behaviour goes on every day all over the internet.
Lori needs to die in a fire 😛
Lori… I mean “realistic” stop trying to hard to defend your shit reputation. You will always be known as the stupid mom who killed a 13 year old girl. Losing your stupid business was nothing compared to losing a child.
And in 15-20 years when you get out of prison you will still be able to see your own daughter, who will be alive, on welfare and doing tricks because her stupid mom was in jail instead of raising her properly.
You know what, jail is the best thing for you and your daughter. Maybe now she will grow up with some 40 year old hag teaching her it is OK for adults to create fake MySpace pages to harass 13 year old girls.
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