I am not sure some on here truly got the message. Lori Drew is not even nearly responsible as Megans mother. AS pawpaw said, this will go nowhere. This was not an incredibly childish thing that Lori Drew but this is going nowhere. Let’s concentrate on Megans parents and let me them know how awful they are as parents. Any responsible parent should be all over this. Any responsible parent would have never allowed Megan to be on Myspace because of her age and mostly because she had many problems that she had to begin with. Megans mother tried to say she monitored Megan on the internet all the time. What? She didnt stop here from talking to this phony boy? Let’s string her a** up and make her an example of what happens when you abuse your own child. For you people that make excuses for Megan’s mom. Shame on you. You are the very reason why our children end up like this. Perhaps you are a major part of the problem and next time it will be your child. Stop being your child’s best friend and start being your child’s parent. When you had that child that’s the job you signed up for!

Let me correct one thing I said accidentally. This was an incredibly childish thing that Lori Drew did. Sorry for the mistyping! You weak parents drive me up a wall!

I think the indictment is justified. The evidence is there. Just by creating a fake user, she violated the rules of myspace. I can’t speculate on the outcome of all of this, but I think it’s a worthwhile pursuit. I think there is considerably less evidence that suggests Megan’s mother is a bad parent.

The witch Lori Drew must be burned at the stake. May her days left on this planet be full of misery and despair. That goes double for her evil doing family.

The GUILTY Lori Drew needs to be convicted and sent to prison for the rest of her ungodly life. Lori’s dopey daughter should also be charged.

This was an adult emotionally abusing a child, thus causing the child to kill herself.

She deserves life in prison, not just 20 years.

I think Drew should be punished and MySpace obviously should be shut down to minors.

Talk about a witch hunt !!!! No one is more responsible for megans death than her OWN PARENTS. She was weak…(obviously) she took the wrong course of action and her parents now want to place blame ANYWHERE but in their own hands. This is all just a sickening joke! Sad as it may be that she is now gone…it doesnt change the fact that she was not right in the head. Suicide is not knee-jerk reaction to an event as benign as this. It is a culmination of many events..poor self perceptions and poor self worth. God only knows.
Her parents claim to be so certain that this is what drove her over the edge. If thats the case …then certainly they also knew she had serious problems BEFORE this happened.No one likes to accept the fact that they may have offspring that was ill-equipped to handle the rigors of everyday life…but that is EXACTLY what happened, and is STILL HAPPENING !
I feel this is more about absolving themselves of those regretful feelings of inadaquecy as a parent than it is about justice for megan.
Now ,…if my statements were to cause you some mental distress for which you feel the need to now end your life …am I really responsible …I THINK NOT !!!!

What is truly the tragedy here are the amount of people who are being tried in the court of public opinion. If either this woman or the girl’s mother did what people are saying they did, they need to be held accountable in a reasonable way. I would say that probation and perhaps parenting classes for both. If I made such a mistake in my life, I would feel really bad about what I had done. While I know there are many “eye for an eye” people who demand some sort of justice, I believe many of these same persons have a few skeletons in their closet that they would like to keep from being held accountable for in the way that they are now demanding justice for these women. We need to remember that sometimes we all make mistakes and temper justice with mercy.

I wonder who is the deep pockets behind this. Drew says she didn’t do it: defers responsibility for the messages to her daughter and an unnamed late-teenaged employee. If anyone should be targeted, it should be the people she said actually did it. The indictment just calls them “co-conspirators.”

The constitution says “you shall create no ex post facto law — meaning, you cannot be prosecuted for something which was not a crime when you committed it, but since has been criminalized. There is *no one* on the planet who knows all laws in all jurisdictions. If My Space thinks they are doing themselves a favor by being party to this indictment, they are not: My Space is not an ISP but a website; as a website, they may themselves be negligent in not finding the offending exchange in time to affect the outcome. No airtight case can ever be made as to “who” is using a computer without flesh and blood witnesses to who is sitting at the keyboard, even if you have the computer’s DNS location. Where are the witnesses to the alleged infraction: esp. since, according to the indictment, the so called conspirators erased their My Space account once the girl’s death became known? Does the indictment have witnesses in real space, besides the accused, to the alleged activity? Where is the evidence?

While there might have been an intent to harass, I don’t think there was any intent to harm or kill. Little miss did that all by herself, and obviously, her legal guardians couldn’t stop her.

Personally, I hope this gets bounced out of court by a Missouri lawyer. It’s a fishing trip, pure and simple. People have been pulling cruel pranks on vulnerable people ever since Cain killed Abel over a mess of pottage. While the actions of the so-called conspirators were definitely childish, and pulled on a girl who obviously didn’t have her act together, “causing emotional distress” is such a lame charge — life (with or without a computer) causes emotional distress eventually to all of us. We learn to deal with it, or we don’t survive.

But making “causing emotional distress” a crime is someone trying to juice up work for lawyers, and prosecuting Lori Drew won’t bring back the kid, or help other troubled youth learn how to differentiate between virtual and real life. Gee, can I go back and prosecute all those kids in sixth grade who created emotional distress in me because I was a transfer student? Hey, they were in person and to my face, too!

I can’t imagine getting so worked up over someone I’d never met in person that I’d do the deed. Sorry for the family’s loss, but why can’t they let this thing rest, already, and get on with their lives? If they really want a memorial to their daughter, why not do something positive, like sponsor a scholarship for school counselors of troubled youth?