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24HourForums.com > Supported Forums > Brian's Science & Nature Shack > Parents Say Fake Online "Friend" Led To Girl's Suicide |
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Brian Grand Poobah of Moderation 
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This story on the CNN site is really disturbing. It's not clear to me if any law has been violated, but it's really reprehensible if a parent took part in tormenting a 13-year old child. If the law can't get these people, I certainly hope karma does!
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member  BAH HUMBUG
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i read about it too Brian, and felt so sad for a little girl who took her own life . yes, i believe in karma. 
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member BAH HUMBUG
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cruelty killed this little girl. 
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Brian Grand Poobah of Moderation
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Lady Cop wrote: cruelty killed this little girl. I hope the family that teased and tormented her has that picture stuck in their minds for the rest of their miserable lives! LC, do you think there could be any possibility of charges arising from this? I think any half-way decent defense lawyer could argue that it was impossible for them to foresee her taking her life, but there's got to be something that can be done. Whether they knew it could happen or not, there was a causal relationship between their actions and her death. That's got to be at least criminally negligent homicide, doesn't it?
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member BAH HUMBUG
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i think there is a good cause of action on the civil side. but not criminal.
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Brian Grand Poobah of Moderation
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It looks like the blogs are already at work trying to avenge this wrongdoing. The identity of the pieces of shit that pass for the parents that tormented the girl are now outed, and people are being encouraged to post reviews of their place of business, in hopes of delivering the ruination they so richly deserve.  These people are going to find out that the Internet against them just as surely as they used it against that girl. 
"It's been a long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last." -- "A Long December", Counting Crows |
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Cars Original500© Member  Love Living Large
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Very tragically sad indeed! May little Megan RIP, finally! The "adults" (questionable) involved, should get all they deserve & more!!! If not in this life, then in the next!
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foxglovepress Forum-Blogger© Original500© Member  NON-PC!!
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That's quite a story. Her parents will never be the same. I do not like My Space!!! Shanii and her friends communicate all the time on My Space. I monitor what's going on, and am able to walk up and read anytime she's on. She's in an area that's easy to keep tab on. Still....there is no way I could possible keep up on all of it!! These kids whole lives are the damn Internet! Several months ago, someone posted the private parts of a man in Shanii's My Space profile! They took her picture out, and replaced it with that. Then, they started calling her a slut and bitch, etc. She was horrified, and I was PISSED! I called the police because I didn't know if it was some "creep" who got into her website. The officer was on her computer for almost an hour! In going back over weeks of conversations, and talking with her, he came to the conclusion, that it was a group of kids here in town that were jealous of her. He warned me, that I needed to keep close watch on her. AS IF I DON'T ALREADY!! haha It's a very dangerous instrument for kids as far as I'm concerned! Thank God Shanii feels comfortable in talking to me, or I may never have known about any of it. The poor mother in this article didn't have a chance in protecting her daughter.
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member BAH HUMBUG
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A twisted joke on a teen girl Posted on Wed, Nov. 21, 2007 By LEONARD PITTS JR. This will kill you. Have you heard about the practical joke that was played on a girl in Dardenne Prairie, near St. Louis? You're going to slap your knee at this one. You're going to bust a gut. See, this girl -- Megan Meier was her name -- was 13. You remember 13, that gawky, uncertain age when you're growing into a new body, hormones firing off like howitzers. They say Megan was a heavyset child, emotionally vulnerable as only an adolescent girl can be. They say she had ADD and struggled with depression. Are you laughing yet? It seems Megan had this friend, a girl who lived a few doors down. Through seventh grade, they had gone round and round: best friends one day, feuding the next, the way kids do. Finally, Megan broke off the friendship for good. She was done with the other girl. But the girl was not done with her. This all happened last year, by the way, but we are indebted to reporter Steve Pokin of the Suburban Journals newspaper for bringing it to our attention just days ago. Since then, the story has made national headlines. Because everybody loves a good joke. So anyway, sometime after Megan and the other girl ended their relationship, this guy named Josh Evans shows up on Megan's MySpace page saying he wants to be added as a friend. And this Josh, he's like a gift from the god of cute boys. He's new in town, home schooled, fatherless, a musician, a major hottie. And he wants to be friends. He thinks Megan is pretty. Chunky, socially awkward Megan. She describes herself to him with an acrostic. M, for modern. E, for enthusiastic. G, for goofy. A, for alluring. N, for neglected. For a time, everything was good. Oh, it was strange that Josh never gave her a phone number and never asked for hers, but Megan overlooked that. Then Josh sent that strange message: ''I don't know if I want to be friends with you anymore because I've heard that you are not very nice to your friends.'' Megan was shocked. Where was this coming from? It was a Sunday night. As it turned out, the last Sunday of Megan's life. Are you laughing yet? The next day after school, Megan asked her mother -- Tina Meier restricted Megan's online access -- to log on the computer so Megan could check for new messages. What she found horrified her. Josh was still sending mean notes. And he had apparently been sharing her messages with others. Now the online community was abuzz with invective. Megan was fat. Megan was a slut. Megan was destroyed. Especially after one last hateful message from Josh. You're a bad person, he said. Everybody hates you. The world would be better without you. He got his wish just hours later. Megan Meier hanged herself that night. Weeks later, her family got the punch line. There never was a Josh. He was a fiction, created by the parents, Curt and Lori Drew, of the girl who had once been Megan's friend. By . . . The . . . Parents. People have threatened and harassed the Drews, and there are fears for their safety. No fears of prosecution, though; what they did broke no laws. But me, I don't want to hurt or jail them. I just want them to know how funny that joke was. How hee-fricking-larious. No one wants acceptance quite as desperately as an adolescent girl who has never been the most popular, never been the prettiest. What brilliance, what comic genius, to take that vulnerability and use it against her. So no, I don't want these folks hurt. I want them healthy. I want them long-lived. And I want them to be reminded, every day of their long, healthy lives, what a great joke they pulled. They really paid Megan back. They really got her good.
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Lady Cop Pioneer100© Member BAH HUMBUG
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may the drews be vilified, excoriated, shat upon and roasted in hell for all eternity. 
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Lady Cop wrote: may the drews be vilified, excoriated, shat upon and roasted in hell for all eternity.     These parents deserve the worst that life could possibly dish out to them.
"It's been a long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last." -- "A Long December", Counting Crows |
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An update, of sorts: The city where this happened passed a law outlawing cyber-harassment. The thing that kind of surprises me is, I thought harassing someone was already a crime. If a person makes harassing phone calls, they can be brought up on charges for it, can't they?!
"It's been a long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last." -- "A Long December", Counting Crows |
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Another (final, I guess) update to this story. The prosecutor refused to go ahead with charges against the Drews. What a worthless, spineless punk. This is the reason people resort to vigilante justice: Cowardly prosecutors can't find it in themselves to do the right thing. This has to be the most ludicrous statement in the whole article: The prosecutor said his inability to file charges does not mean those involved in the suicide will go unpunished. Oh yeah....I'm sure they're just all broken up about it... 
"It's been a long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last." -- "A Long December", Counting Crows |
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Saint Forum-Blogger© Pioneer100© Member  Polymath
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Here's a case for proving that there is pure evil afoot in the land. What could they possibly hope to gain by this behavior? It's just sick and evil. Well, I for one am glad this happened. Why you ask? Because now we are all aware of this, are watching, and will take action...possibly in time to save the next teen. I posted a review on the "Drew Advantage" website. Some of them were pretty biting and rightly so, I suggest reading it.
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Brian Grand Poobah of Moderation
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Saint wrote: Here's a case for proving that there is pure evil afoot in the land. This is one of those times where I hope there is an afterlife...and a Hell.
"It's been a long December, and there's reason to believe maybe this year will be better than the last." -- "A Long December", Counting Crows |
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