Woman indicted in Myspace hoax suicide


	Woman indicted in Myspace hoax suicide

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5-15-2008 7:35 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/98b23309-79fa-43bc-bded-bed6ed5cc356/29435BBA-9D0F-4B24-87F4-C1F93B5BCFC3/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/myspace_suicide_dc" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/myspace_suicide_dc" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/myspace_suicide_dc"><H1>
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                                        Woman indicted in MySpace hoax suicide                </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/myspace_suicide_dc">Lori Drew and others created the fake 
MySpace persona of a 16-year-old boy to woo neighbor Megan 
Meier for several weeks, then abruptly ended the relationship 
and said the world would be better off without her</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/myspace_suicide_dc"><P>
 Meier's 2006 suicide by hanging, just hours after she read 
those final messages, made worldwide headlines and prompted 
calls for social networking sites like MySpace to crack down on 
cyber-bullying.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/myspace_suicide_dc"><P>
 Several hours after the final message, Meier, who had 
argued with her mother over the relationship, hanged herself in 
the closet of her bedroom in a <SPAN id="lw_1210893820_5" class="yshortcuts">St. Louis</SPAN> suburb, still unaware 
that "Josh" did not exist.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/myspace_suicide_dc">Drew family was 
shunned by members of the community, targeted for abuse on the 
Internet and their small advertising business was vandalized</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/myspace_suicide_dc"><P>
 Drew, who faces a maximum sentence of 20 years in federal 
prison if she is convicted on all of the charges, was expected 
to surrender to authorities in <SPAN id="lw_1210893820_6" class="yshortcuts">Missouri</SPAN>.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/29435BBA-9D0F-4B24-87F4-C1F93B5BCFC3/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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