I had a teacher when I was young who caused me great grief with his insulting out of line comments. I’m sure many of us have. We didn’t have PCs, but we knew when we were being harrassed and it was quite depressing when you knew you would have to face the nut who held your future in their hands day after day as they took their frustrations out on the kids. I also had a friend who lost their kid after putting him on meds with bad side effects. As far as fake accounts on social networking services, it is common practice for internet marketers to have several accounts. So do many who date, rip folks off, and go back to rip off again. Dating sites who claim they offer only singles have married folks who swing trolling there. Spreading STDs as they go. Tina with her hair highlights makes me wonder. I agree that she doesn’t act like any mother I have seen who lost their kid. Even right after the accident she was fixated on the perp excessively. No grief, just rage. And those who saw her daily say the same thing. Methinks it might have been her husband’s lay at one time, or maybe both of them played with her and now we have a suburban soap opera of sour grapes and secrets. It just don’t smell right Judge Judy! This should be fun, but leave our freedoms alone. I agree with Tim…you can tell this is an election year. And the prosecutor who finally agreed to pop the case open after so many saw there was no case has an agenda too. Should be interesting to see what that is. Maybe he likes petite highlighted blondes with no ties to responsibilities. This chick and her ex are gonna be rich. And they know it!

Gosh some of you sound COMPLETELY heartless and to put blame on the parents when they are dealing with this tragedy is just wrong! If Megan had so many problems before this incident, then a grown women should know what sort of influence this might have on a 13 year old child. If you feel someone is “talking” about you, be mature enough to confront that person. Superdave you sound like a super ASS and I feel sorry for you!!!!!! Mysapce is suppose to be fun and her mother probably thought it might help her to make friends and interact with people, not get completely tormented by a 49 year old women. Any mother should know what kind of pain a 13 year old girl will feel thinking she is in love. And you, Dave, don’t know what kind of help her parents had been getting for her maybe they did all they could for her and 13 year old girls can be very secretive. I don’t blame the parents in any way! Parents don’t get a manual telling them how to properly raise a troubled child. To say they failed thier daughter as parents is ludicrous. They did’t ask for this to happen and nobody could have predicted it. If anyone failed as a parent it is Lori Drew. She is a horrible parent to let her children think this type of behavior is acceptable and that it is okay to treat someone this way. I could go on and on!!! Joe, you pretty much summed it up though and I think you are awesome!

I just read the ENTIRE indictment. It states, and I quote, “using the internet to gain unauthorized access to a computer.” I have several questions…………

What constitutes “unauthorized access?” If I appear as someone other than myself and someone accesses my page, does that mean I have broken the law? If this is the interpretation they are using, I don’t see how what would pass judicial review.

The “law” is unenforceable. The vaugness of the statute, if that is the exact wording, is easily challenged.

No where have I found a section of the Federal Register that specifically states the use of the NET for harassment. If it is not law, how can it be used as a basis for an indictment?

Criminal conspiracy is one of the hardest crimes to prove. There would have to be clear evidence of “intent.” It would appear to me that a 2nd year law student could sucessfully argue this case before SCOTUS.

Oh please don’t feel sorry for me. I don’t need or want your sympathy. It truly amazes me that Tina Meier gets a free pass with so many of you. Tina Meier is the one that illegally signed her up for Myspace. Worse than that, Tina Meier knew her daughter had problems to begin with and so she puts her in a place and lies to us saying that she always monitored her daughter. What a bunch of crap! If Tina Meier and her lame husband would have been responsible parents then Megan would be alive today.

The audacity of some of you people blaming most, if not all, on Lori Drew blows my mind. Lori was completely childish and it was inexcusable for her behavior. Let me say this again. Megan had problems to begin with. As stated earlier by some on here and myself, Tina Meier put her own daughter in harms way. Why would any responsible parent do that? Are you saying you would do that? Tell me it isn’t so! It is our job as parents to prepare our children for the future. I am hard on parents because I think so many of you, whether you mean it or not, put your children in positions that you wouldn’t put yourself into.

It bothers me none that I get attacked for my position. It only saddens me that there are so many irresponsible parents parenting children and blaming everyone else for their own incompetence. Oh, by the way. I raised 4 children and 3 of them were girls. I certainly didn’t teach any of my children that it’s ok to disobey the rules, but more importantly I sure as hell wouldnt help them disobey the rules. Please defend that one. As far as I am concerned, if that little girl wasn,t put in that position then we wouldnt be on here making comments now, would we? Try being parents first before you decide to be best friends with your kids. They can find friends but parent are hard to come by, as shown on this blog!

The have intent. They have a testimony by Ashley Grills that states Lori Drew knew of the page, suggested the page, and suggested some of the comments made.

You can never completely block your children from harm. Are you kidding me? Did you lock your 4 children in a box and let them out only for air and water. Harm is out there. It will never go away. At best we can give our children all the tools to deal with and stay clear of it but it will never be completely gone from our children. If that is the case why do children get sexual abused at church and school, places that are meant and suppose to be safe.

You don’t know how much monitoring was done by her parents. You can not be judgemental and assume there was a lack of parenting. It is not illegal to sign a 13 year old up for myspace. There are many out there. It is however illegal to pretend you are 14.

It was a sad outcome to an event were many people were to blame.

Drew is just charged with creating a false identity.
As to that I totally agree.

But blaming her for Megans CHOICE to kill herself is just the act of a bitter and angry mother and father. I’ve never seen one woman try so hard to point the blame as far as she can from herself. Its become a full time job for her. One and on she goes “Drew murdered my baby, Drew did this, Drew did that” Never once taking any responsibity for herself.

For all we know Megan thought she was too fat and hated her body. This online stuff may not have bothered her at all. Maybe her home life was bad. Maybe mom and dad were fighting all the time. These reason make far more sense. More sense then a fake boy online she NEVER meet hurting her feelings. HE WAS A STRANGER who cares if he like you?

Maybe the sad truth is the parents are the reason. Fighting? Ignoring her? Nagging her? Not paying attention to her problems?
Who know what happens behind closed doors?
Hard to believe but it could be true.

Only Megan knows the truth and she chose to leave us guessing.

Unfortunately the one thing you don’t need a license for is to have children. If that was the case, our population would be a lot lower.

Has she been taken into custody by U.S. Marshals?

She has until June to turn herself in.