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As we said back when this case came to public light, Lori Drew broke a lot of laws. We will never understand why the prosecutor in her area gave her a pass. He should be investigated too.

Megan Meier (left)/ Ashley Grills (right) But now, Mrs. Drew's chickens have come home to roost. Ashley Grills, the girl Drew tried to blame Megan Meier's suicide on -- came clean about Drew's involvement and now the U.S. District Attorney, Thomas O'Brien has filed an indictment against Drew.

We can only pray that Drew gets the jail time for her immature & malicious intentions towards poor Megan Meier. This case will set a precedent for those who wish to pursue charges against their predators for INTENTIONAL INFLICTION OF EMOTIONAL DISTRESS.

Predators often do the same things Mrs. Drew did - use false identities, lure vulnerable persons into online relationships, smear them, bully them and discard them - leaving adult victims with serious PTSD and other problems.

In our opinion, Megan Meier was a young girl who deserved a lot better than being set up and yes -- pushed to suicide by a remorseless person like Lori Drew.

REMEMBER: The Courts & Prosecutors INITIALLY said "THERE WAS NO CASE." But Tina Meier (Megan's mother) and people like us - the bloggers, who the press tried to smear as a "cybermob," kept after this case.

Victims - NEVER NEVER NEVER GIVE UP PURSUING JUSTICE!!!!!!! LOS ANGELES – A Missouri woman was indicted today on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on the social networking Web site MySpace, U.S. Attorney for the Central District of California Thomas P. O'Brien announced today.

The woman posed as a teenage boy who feigned romantic interest in a 13 year-old girl, who later committed suicide after the "boy" spurned her and told her, among other things, that the world would be a better place without her.

Lori Drew, 49, of O'Fallon, Mo., was named in a four-count indictment returned this morning by a federal grand jury. The indictment charges one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress on the girl who, because of juvenile privacy rules, is referred to in the indictment only as M.T.M.

The indictment alleges that Drew, along with others, registered as a member of MySpace under the name "Josh Evans." Drew and her co-conspirators then used the Josh Evans account to contact M.T.M. and began what the girl believed was an on-line romance with a 16-year-old boy.

In taking those actions, the indictment alleges, Drew and her co-conspirators violated MySpace's terms of service that prohibit users from, among other things, using fraudulent registration information, using accounts to obtain personal information about juvenile members, and using the MySpace communication services to harass, abuse or harm other members.

After approximately four weeks of flirtatious communications between "Josh Evans" and M.T.M., Drew and her co-conspirators broke off the relationship. Within an hour, M.T.M. had hanged herself in her room. She died the next day. "This adult woman allegedly used the Internet to target a young teenage girl, with horrendous ramifications," said U.S. Attorney Thomas P. O'Brien. "After a thorough investigation, we have charged Ms. Drew with criminally accessing MySpace and violating rules established to protect young, vulnerable people.

Any adult who uses the Internet or a social gathering Web site to bully or harass another person, particularly a young teenage girl, needs to realize that their actions can have serious consequences."

To become a member of MySpace, individuals are required to submit registration information – including name and date of birth – and have to agree to certain terms of service that regulate their use of the Web site. Among other things, MySpace terms of service require prospective members to provide truthful and accurate registration information; to refrain from using any information obtained from MySpace services to harass, abuse or harm other people; to refrain from soliciting personal information from anyone under 18; to refrain from promoting information that they know is false or misleading; and to refrain from posting photographs of other people without their consent.

The indictment alleges that Drew and her co-conspirators violated all of those provisions.

"Whether we characterize this tragic case as 'cyber-bullying,' cyber abuse or illegal computer access, it should serve as a reminder that our children use the Internet for social interaction and that technology has altered the way they conduct their daily activities," said Salvador Hernandez, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI in Los Angeles. "As adults, we must be sensitive to the potential dangers posed by the use of the Internet by our children."

The conspiracy count carries a maximum statutory penalty of five years in federal prison. Each count of accessing protected computers, each of which alleges that the access was for the purpose of intentionally inflicting emotional distress on M.T.M., carries a maximum possible penalty of five years in prison.

An indictment contains allegations that a defendant has committed a crime. Every defendant is presumed to be innocent unless and until proven guilty.

Drew will be summoned to appear for an arraignment in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles in June.

This case was investigated by special agents with the FBI in St. Louis and Los Angeles.

Our deep thanks to Denise Marhoefer of the Defense Foundation for Children USA for her help and sending us this information.

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MYSPACE SUICIDE CASE - SOME TRUTH AT LAST

You lived a time of lies until you told me everything.
I hope we make amends, but you don't.
Life taught you how to fly and then you flew away from me.
You left me haunted, star the ending image of the one.

'Cause they're still in you too low.
All the voices you don't know.
And they're still in you too low.
All the choices that you chose.

You harbored all the wasted sighs to define the quiet drone.
I'll let you start again, but you won't.
I saw you pray for change and then you walked all over me.
You wanted what you could not have and now you are alone.

'Cause they're still in you too low.
All the voices you don't know.
And they're still in you too low.
All the choices that you chose.
Make the voices tell me who you are and who I am to be.

Are you alone where you are tonight?
I'm alone when you're right here,
But I'm still in you somehow.
I never left at all.
Now I'm stealing you too low,
So my voice is all you know.

'Cause they're still in you too low.
All the voices you don't know.
And they're still in you too low.
All the choices that you chose.

Leave you nothing left to hold.
When you're nothing it's a good time to remind you of one thing:.
The pursuit begins when this portrayal of life...ends.

[true story]
I was listening to a man speak and he challanged the audience "who is your hero?" and so I started to think on it.....
at first I thought of Kurt Cobain, I've always concidered that living legend a hero.... but really thinking about it, he's impersonal, so I thought about Kurt, (my friend Kris) and although he has always been a guiding force in my life he's not really my hero.......
so then I went to folkfest, and I saw my hero for the first time.....

Her name is Christine Evans....and she's.....beautiful...*sigh*
her web site is www.christine-evans.com and her music has inspired me, her causes keep me grounded, and thanks to her I can now say this without lying:
although I have lost everything I cared about, I'm not afraid...... although I can't talk to my friends, I can stand on my own.....even though the weight of the world lays on my shoulders.....I can stand

now every morning I get up I look at my 2 memories from her, the bracelet she gave me and her autograph
the bracelet says her cause: on my own
well, thanks for reading this entry...almost noone cares anyway but the fact that you took the time makes me smile

well maybe I'll see love again....maybe...... I miss you amby......I always loved you.........