I used to live across the street from Lori Drew and knew she was a sick, sick woman 10 years ago. She mistreated another child in the neighborhood who “had a falling out” with her daughter. To have someone smiling in your face pretending to be a friend and doing awful, hateful things behind your back is common place for Lori Drew and her husband Kurt. But never in my wildest dreams would I ever think she would dream up a scam such as this to hurt a child. She’s a sick woman and she’s getting payback for her deeds. But the lack of remorse, no apology for the part she played, makes this whole thing 10 times worse. It’s time to pay the piper Lori Drew, your stunts have caught up with you and this time you need to serve jail time. YOU ARE A CRIMINAL!

This story continues to haunt me. As a parent of a teenage girl, this is disturbingly real — my daughter was the subject of disturbing comments by other girls in her early teens, thankfully nothing this severe. If an adult did this to a teen, I can’t see any excuse whatsoever for tolerating this. As a lawyer, I find it hard to believe there isn’t a civil cause of action (deceit, intentional infliction of emotional distress, etc.) or a criminal-type law (bullying, stalking, etc.) that would address this in a general way with a half-way decent creative attorney working at it. That this continues to be a problem, with or without the use of the internet, is a sad comment on our life & times. That theorectically responsible adults in this community apparently shrug their shoulders and disclaim any ability to do anything about it is equally sad. There ought to be a law — and a legal response.

i think that the accused should be held accountable for this childs suicide. good lord people, she was 13, girls this age argue about stupid things like boys or whatever, it is not a reason to get involved and cause someone to take their life like this. this child had a long life ahead of her, until some heartless person took it upon themselves to make this childs life a living hell by pretending to be a boy that liked her and lie to her and break her heart.
for a parent to get involved like this and be so mean, you must have had a horrible childhood that you are so bitter about that you did this. you should be ashamed yourself of what you did. what if someone had done this to your own daughter? would you not be upset and want justice for your child, i know i would. but since the bible says that i should not judge, that is up to god, we will see where you will stand when judgement day comes.

Now that Dardenne Prairie has a law targeting on-line harassment, we have the perfect test case. There’s a Dardenne Prairie couple with a vendetta against a family in the same subdivision they live in. They’ve used the print and broadcast media, as well as the internet, to sway public opinion. They have stated repeatedly that they “want something done”. More than one of their supporters has stated, online, that they want the other family “out of the neighborhood”. Last weekend, the couple’s supporters organized a public demonstration in front of the other family’s home. At least one half of the couple participated in the demonstration. If this doesn’t constitute harassment, I don’t know what does . . . and the name of the “harassing” couple? The Meiers!

Any comments blaming the Meiers just might be a post from Lori Drew and her street gang, acting once again like somebody else.
God bless!

As parents we are an example to our children - they live by example. What is the most horrifying thought is that if Lori Drew does not suffer any consequences, what kind of a message does this give to our children. Her assistant should have consequences as should local authorities be accountable for why this was not followed up with more aggressively. Is this how we deal with disagreements? As a parent, I would have taken my daughter, brought them together (with the other parents on board) and turn it into a lesson as to how resolve differences or just know how to “agree to disagree” and still maintain friendship.

Lori Drew is by my definition not only a murderer but a mentally disturbed woman who is a threat to the public. She should have her children removed from the home. She will only continue to breed hatred with her behavior and spread her disease to those within her home and who claim to support her.

In the end she will have her conscience to deal with and suffer the consequences of society’s rejection and intolerance for her actions.

Her life will never be the same, as it should not be.

Canton, Massachusetts

I feel that as parents they should have done more to make her have real friends/boyfriends. I agree that you never know about the other person that your talking to. With the internet being in most households now we as parents should monitor our children better. But I also feel that the Drew’s should be held some what accountable for Megan’s death. They knew she had emotional problems. It is very immature for the mother to create a fake boy up and hurt someone like she did and to also involve other children in her immature joke. Megan looked like a beautiful girl and I can’t imagine how her family feels about losing her over someone’s ignorance.

I think it appropriate to characterize a juvenile’s behavior as immature and hope with age the behavior will change for the better, what Lori Drew did was not immature in my opinion, it was malicious. She deliberately baited a child into a fictious relationship that she as a mature adult knew could only end with the deceived child being emotionally hurt. She did this knowing full well that the child she preyed upon was already emotionally fragile. This is malicious behavior not immature behavior in my opinion, as it would take a certain amount of maturity and insight into knowing exactly how to go about creating this person in a non-threatening way that would deceive Megan’s mom as well as Megan herself, thereby getting them allowing into her friends group on Myspace, immature no! Malicous yes!!

This won’t be a popular opinion, but I believe it’s the correct one: no crime was committed here, because Megan committed suicide without ever knowing that Josh wasn’t a real person. So pretend for a moment that it was a real boy named Josh, and not a middle-aged neighbor - the end result would be the same, and I hope nobody is suggesting that it would still be a crime if that were the case. Had Megan discovered that Josh wasn’t real and then committed suicide as a result of that discovery, that would be a different story (although I’m not sure if even that would be illegal).

I find it disturbing that a law was passed to try to prevent this sort of thing - I guess they acted on emotion instead of stopping to really think about it. This is a social issue, not a legal one. The neighbor who impersonated the boy will forever be associated with this event, and she will have to think about it every night when she goes to bed (just like if this were a real boy named Josh, he would have the same burden).

I’m sorry that this happened, but stop polluting our legal system with laws like this one that serve no purpose other than providing source material for one of those “Dumb Laws” books to be published 100 years from now.

Teenagers are supposed to learn life lessons from interacting with other teenagers not psycho manipulative moms, posing as teenagers. I can see Lori Drew working for months on her “Project” waiting for just the right time to spring her evil trap. I can picture her explaing to her own daughter to “be patient, Mommy knows what she is doing, we just have to wait for the exact moment to extract the most pain and suffering that we can. Just trust Mommy, she knows what she is doing, we will have our revenge soon enough.” It’s enough to make you sick if you think about it long enough.