Lori Drew now Notorious with Wikipedia Page
The Megan Meier Suicide controversy has raised enough dust on the web to merit it’s own Wikipedia mention. This is not a problem, it’s Wikipedia, it’s what we geeks expect. What better place to keep informed and appraised. I did find the “Reaction to news story” section interesting though. The bloggers and the neighbors really went on witch-hunt mode.
Megan’s story was first reported in the St. Louis Suburban Journal. When the story first appeared, reader comments focused on Lori and Curt Drew who had posed as Josh. Later, the focus was on the St. Louis Suburban Journal’s decision not to print the name of the Drew’s who were responsible for the hoax. The reporter stated in an interview that the names were withheld out of concern for the minor child of the hoaxer. Within days, the identity of the perpetrator, Lori Drew, was revealed by angry bloggers. The Drew’s were targeted with vandalism, prank phone calls, paintball attacks and a “prank” call to the local police which led to “as many as 15 deputies [drawing] weapons and [charging] the home of Lori and Curt Drew,” the people identified as the hoaxers. Due to the vehement public reaction, police added additional patrols to the neighbourhood, and the Drew’s have installed a security camera.
Sadly I’m kind of all for this. What the Drew’s have done is so beyond heinous and disgusting I can’t begin to express the vile vicious and violent things I’d love to do to them for having mentally tortured this child till she hung herself. I know what depression is. I know what being a ghost in high-school is. I hope they have a lot of security because a lot of people seem out to get them.
In response to COCO
You are so right! My brother took his life due to the breakdown of his self esteem from so many years of ridicule. He had red hair. He was teased and tormented. The first time my brother saw my son at age two and who is now 13, he looked at him with disgust and said, “oh god, he has red hair”. That was the only time he saw him.
Your message is so powerful and completely right. Nothing that happens at those tender ages will matter even a few short years later but they can have such an impact.
It is a struggle I face daily as a parent to try to teach my children that the words they hear today from their so-called friends /peers shouldn’t reflect on who they are as a person today and who they will become.
Very tragic! To the Meirer Family- My heart breaks for you. I can’t imagine your pain. My heart breaks for Megan!
Lori, I hope you and your kid will suffer forever in this life or after. I hope someday you’ll read this post that I curse you and your familt to hell. What are you going to do to pay for what you have done?
Jill are you actually blaming Megan for all of this? And her parents!? It isn’t possible to monitor children 24/7. And if Megan put up a pic of a woman she thought was more attractive in order to try to meet friends online, because she had NO confidence in her own appearance – that is not a crime. That did not hurt anybody!
But the people who went after Megan targeted that same insecurity in order to try and destroy her emotionally. They succeeded. No comparison!
I don’t know why you’d insult a dead girl either – but if she was ’sad and mentally unstable’ that is even more reason NOT to torment her. The Drews knew Megan and her family, they had to have known she was vulnerable. They did this anyway. At least the one teen employee must feel remorse or they would not be getting psychiatric help. Lori’s main concern at every turn she’s spoken out, has been for HERSELF.
I think that they should be ignored, and their businesses driven to hell,
but please do not do anything rash.
The father is already being subjected to prosecution over the vandalized
foosball table. If anything bad happens to the Drews, police and prosecutors may blame the father. For that reason, would-be vigilantes
need to cool their jets.
This is in response to comment number 12 by subfighter, who wrote:
“Lori Drew is an overweight, undersexed, bitter, evil bitch. She is the worst kind of person. She probably calls herself a Christian. I’ve seen her kind too many times.”
WHO ARE YOU TO CONDEMN CHRISTIANS FOR THE ACT OF THIS ONE SICK WOMAN WHO YOU DO NOT EVEN KNOW FOR SURE IS CHRISTIAN? WHY BRING RELIGION INTO THIS??? WHO ARE YOU TO MAKE A GENERALIZATION ABOUT CHRISTIANS?
Lori Drew is a child predator and is a murderer. With the type of evil she is capable of, the only place she should be is behind bars. I pray that she will be removed from society – this is the scariest type of person there is. Her kids should be protected from her – she is dangerous on a whole new level.
While what this lady did is disgusting and an outrage ,,,the site was condoned and supervised by her parents ….it is sad ..but jail? she is a sick bleep! we can not judge less we be judged ….how many times has someone said i hate you or told a secret or lied to get what they want…unfortunately she must wait for judgement by the only one who can…..and it is not any of us….this civil lawsuit blame everyone else society we have now sucks. the mother’s last words to her daughter were not chosen well …almost an i told you so….back off …ms. drew is a bad person but the truth is that should get you jail time?
There’s what I’d like to do to them, and then there’s what I think we should do with them.
I think we should deport them and never allow them to return to this country. Not ever. It seems to me their mentality would be more at home in Iran or Syria anyway. If not them then who?
We don’t need trash like this in our nation under God. If they’re smart, they’ll do it of their own accord. I don’t see what kind of a life they could possibly provide for their young child in the USA now that they are a national pariah.
Just one mans opinion.
Though I do not condone Lori’s actions, there is no way she should or could be prosecuted over what happened. She didn’t purposely enact any emotional damage on Megan to intend to result in her suicide. Unlike probably everyone here, I read through the ENTIRE transcripts of the myspace conversations. There is a reason the DA couldn’t prosecute Lori and it’s simply because there is no legal basis of a case. Yes, maybe on illegal use of a computer system or what not, but not for actual murder. Lori played a sick joke on Megan but that is all. She didn’t emotionally torment her, in fact the majority of everything she said were in the forms of compliments. The FBI was not able to prove that the final words were ‘the world would be a better place without you’. That is just heresay from what Ron described.
If you take out that comment the only other item that was ‘negative’ at all was the fact that Lori and her daughter / employee posted several bulletins about Megan being a fat slut. That was it. This entire debate is over one or two sentences that at BEST can be summed up as ‘very mean’. Anyone going through high school and middle school has been put through the wringer of things exponentially worse than this. We will all be subject to ridicule in our lives, and that is the end of it. The facts may be that Lori orchestrated the idea of ridicule, but her ridicule never exceeded ‘excessive’, it was not manipulative, and did not intend to for Megan to kill herself. Other kids Megan’s age have probably said things exponentially worse on a regular basis. There was no grand scheme of destruction here, Lori’s daughter had been hurt by Megan in the past and they decided to get back at Megan for this. Not a very mature decision but one that in 99.99999% of situations would have never resulted in this.
Megan had already tried to commit suicide before, she was a very emotionally unstable girl. I’m not making EXCUSES for anyone, I’m simply explaining the facts of the situation and the facts of life. To give Lori ANY jail time would be a total abashment of our entire legal system. Lori was not a predator (if you actually read the transcripts there is *NO* way you would conclude otherwise). I’m not condoning the actions of Lori I’m simply saying that it has been blown out of proportion in the media, the story has been skewed and the fact of the matter is there is NO way of proving that Megan killed herself because of Lori’s comments- none. Megan bursted out with rage and powerful emotions at her MOTHER for not agreeing with her. If anything, her mother’s lack of caring (at least in Megan’s view) was the final straw to a lifelong unstable foundation. You can not conclude what the actual ‘reasons’ for Megan committing suicide, but I’d also like to throw another tid-bit out there.
Megan hung herself by lifting her legs in the air but keeping her feet on the ground. The fact of the matter is she put her cervical spine in a vulnerable position. It was the CPR/ chest compressions coupled with a spinal injury and ripping down the ‘closet thing’ that was the cause of death, it was not asphyxiation. Megan didn’t actually DIE from suffocation, she died from injuries coupled with the trauma she gave her head and spine. This is another, huge flaw in the prosecutions case against Lori for murder. It was her inexperienced mother actually (although perfectly normal given the circumstances) to give her emergency care that actually made the problem a whole lot worse. This pretty much sums it up as an accidental death though with ‘possibly’ some criminal neglect.
Ultimately this is why you won’t see Lori getting jail time. There has to be a conscience effort to commit murder or psychologically control another person. After reading the transcripts there is no way she acted out of the mode of a normal teenage boy, and if anything actually spent the majority of the conversations complementing Megan. I feel bad what happened happened, but after all some people will just react unpredictably in a state of depression and instability. Lori is not the anti-christ, and her family certainly doesn’t deserve the ridicule from some poor decisions she made. We’ve all probably done a lot worse in our lives, it’s a fact of life- but the beauty of our legal system is actually remembering we are not on a witch hunt here thirsty for blood (which makes us no better than real murderers) but that we are in the search for legal justice that is fair and equal across the land. Freedom of speech is a powerful, powerful right that we have, and without the imminent threat that your words pose harm to other people (which in this case it surely did not) allows us to put the responsibility on the people who are actually responsible and disregard the people who might have incited it but weren’t ultimately responsible.
Brian, though you make a couple of statements about how you don’t condone what Lori Drew did, they don’t read as though they carry much conviction or truth. It would not be a stretch for anyone to conclude that you are a stooge for the Drew family, or perhaps you are simply one without the awareness to understand that what transpired between Lori Drew, a 47 year old woman with a mean streak, and Megan, a 13 year old with Depression–is absolutely wrong and for such deviant behavior as Lori Drew’s, there should be punishment.
You seem to feel as though you’re the only person that read the entire transcripts. Was it after reading the ‘ENTIRE’ transcripts that you felt, as an adult male, it must be okay to indulge in writings of a sexual nature with a 13 year old? Because that’s what Lori Drew did.
In the transcripts you mention the complimentary nature of the correspondence. The complimentary nature of any of Lori’s writings only adds to the cruelty of the hoax. Lori Drew was fully aware that she was manipulating a 13 year old with emotional problems; but Lori didn’t care. Lori’s intent was to be cruel.
Your entire post seeks to legitamize Lori’s actions and sum them up as entirely normal, or not worthy of concern. Not once do you point out the obvious, that Lori must have a screw loose, and a high level of an evil nature for concocting and taking part in this plot of fraud against a 13 year old suffering from Depression. (A tibit of which Lori Drew was completely aware.) And yet, you have no trouble making statements without proof whatsoever, regarding the blame you feel should be placed on Megan’s mother. You first state that Megan’s mom had a ‘lack of caring’ which led Megan to attempt suicide, then you state that perhaps Megan was killed by her own mother when the mother attempted CPR.
So, when based on facts, your logical brain cannot see what Lori did as being worthy of a trial, or worthy of possible jail time, and you feel it would be a horrible thing for our justice system if Lori does end up doing some time. But when based on theory, you have no trouble weaving a quilt of blame for Megan’s mom. You’re quite the quilter!
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aVFhf1WErz_I&refer=home
Let’s hope Lori Drew has to do the full year for each of the 3 counts on which she was found guilty. And let’s hope we update law in order to catch up with technology, so that the Lori Drew’s of the world can be dealt with appropriately.
Brian Your post seems to be written in a style that suggests a close to the case opinion.
Unfortunately the facts you address are not accurate.
Lori lied to police, Lori told a neighbours daughter to shutup about Joshs existence, Lori as an adult allowed conversation to continue when sexual innuendo introduced Lori, Sarah and Ashley enjoyed the game. Sarah to heighten the game effects and to further humiliate Megan shared the site password with other teenagers. Lori and Ashley admitted to the final email the world would be a better place. Lori is an adult and a parent………………..
I am glad this evil woman was found guilty. She deserves the maximum penalty under the law for her actions. Words cannot express the hatred I feel at this time for this disgusting human being. She is completely remorseless, and that is perhaps the biggest tragedy here. How could she possibly defend her actions? I truly wish that the rest of her days on this earth are filled with pain and torment, and that her soul is condemned to eternal damnation when she passes. BURN IN HELL, BITCH!
Indeed very disgusting, tisk tisk for the justice system. But I think what she did to poor Megan will haunt her for the rest of her life, that and the entire internet. Have a Great and Wonderful life, let the Sunshine and Rainbows be with you!
Qoute* I truly wish that the rest of her days on this earth are filled with pain and torment, and that her soul is condemned to eternal damnation when she passes. BURN IN HELL, BITCH! *Qoute — Justice Stick
Qoute* With the type of evil she is capable of, the only place she should be is behind bars. I pray that she will be removed from society – this is the scariest type of person there is. Her kids should be protected from her *Qoute –g
how do her kids live with physco