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Indictment says woman posed as a teen boy, feigned romantic interest in girl
Prosecutors: She used false data to create account to "harass, abuse or harm" girl
Authorities have said she set up account to find out what girl said about her daughter
Megan Meier, 13, hanged herself after hoax
LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- A Missouri mom was indicted Thursday for her alleged role in the death of a teen who killed herself over a failed Internet romance that turned out to be a hoax.
Megan Meier, 13, hanged herself in her bedroom after being targeted in a MySpace hoax.
A federal indictment accuses Lori Drew, 49, of O'Fallon, Missouri, of using the social networking Web site MySpace.com to pose as a 16-year-old boy and feign romantic interest in the girl.
The girl, Megan Meier, committed suicide after her online love interest spurned her, according to prosecutors, telling her the world would be a better place without her.
Drew faces up to 20 years in prison on charges of conspiracy and accessing protected computers to obtain information to inflict emotional distress.
The indictment, which was filed in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, accuses Drew and others of registering on MySpace as "Josh Evans" and using the account to lure Meier into an an online romance.
Authorities have previously said that Drew set up the account to find out what Meier, who lived in her neighborhood, was saying about her daughter.
Prosecutors allege that Drew and the others violated MySpace's terms of service by using false information to create the account so they could "harass, abuse or harm" Meier, according to the indictment.
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MY POINT IN POSTING THIS, is to show EVERYONE,
how DEADLY this kind of behavior can be.
I am SO HAPPY our government,
yes it was a FEDERAL INDICTMENT
that FINALLY charged
this NOSEY, MEAN,
NOW: GOING TO PRISON
mother for what she did.
LESSON!!!! LESSON!!!! LESSON!!!!
