No Justice yet for Megan Meier. Announcement Due next week.
Well it’s about time but announcements will be made next week as to whether charges will be laid on Drew Lori who drove 13 year old Megan to suicide through a cruel internet hoax using MySpace to get back at her after Megan ended a friendship with her daughter.
Jack Banas, the St. Charles County prosecuting attorney, said Wednesday he expects to announce on Monday or Tuesday whether criminal charges will be filed in connection with the October 2006 suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier of Dardenne Prairie.
Ron Meier, the father of Megan, said it would be a “severe letdown” if, once again, there is no prosecution of the neighbor, 48, who was behind a MySpace hoax that apparently contributed to Megan’s death.”I would surely hope that that would not be the case,” Meier said.(source)
Here’s a quick recap of the events:
Drew admitted to police in a published report that she had created a fake MySpace account in the identity of a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans in order to befriend Megan online and find out what she was saying about Drew’s own teenage daughter after the two girls had a falling-out. Once Meier was drawn into the trap, Drew or others who had access to the Josh Evans account, turned on Meier and began attacking her online with hateful messages. Meier reportedly committed suicide after reading an especially wounding message saying that the world would be better off without her.(source)
Previous Articles:
- Lori Drew now Notorious with Wikipedia Page
- Lori Drew – Dave and Thomas Asshole Of The Year. Meet The Mother That Drove Megan Meier To Suicide
I saw this story on CNN a few days ago, I just couldn’t believe it!!! So sad story for this girl…
Nothing will be done, nothing!
But for the ones that will follow, justice will be made… Come on, she deserves that something be done just so her soul can rest in peace, not pieces…
Click to read how FOX TV attacked one blogger for calling for Justice for Megan and is painting all bloggers who ask for justice in this case a “CYBER MOB”
http://clearblogs.com/theexposer/84756
Now someone has created a blog to abuse this poor gal more.
On Wednesday, October 21st, city officials wasted no time enacting an ordinance designed to address the public outcry for justice in the Megan Meier tragedy. The six member Board of Aldermen made Internet harassment a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $500 fine and 90 days in jail.
Does this new law provide any justice for Megan? Does this law provide equitable relief for a future victim?
The Vice rejects the premise of this new law and believes it completely misses the mark. Classifying this case as a harassment issue completely fails to address the most serious aspects of the methods Lori Drew employed to lead this youth to her demise. The Vice disagrees that harassment was even a factor in this case until just a couple of days before Megan’s death.
Considering this case a harassment issue is incorrect because during the 5 weeks Lori Drew baited and groomed her victim, the attention was NOT unwanted attention. Megan participated in the conversations willingly because she was misled, lured, manipulated and exploited without her knowledge.
This law willfully sets a precedent that future child exploiters and predators might use to reclassify their cases as harassment cases. In effect, the law enacted to give Megan justice, may make her even more vulnerable. So long as the child victim doesn’t tell the predator to stop, even a harassment charge may not stick with the right circumstances and a good defender.
Every aspect of this case follows the same procedural requirement used to convict a Child Predator. A child was manipulated by an adult. A child was engaged in sexually explicit conversation (as acknowledged by Lori Drew herself). An adult imposed her will on a child by misleading her, using a profile designed to sexually or intimately attract the 13 year old Megan.
Lori then utilized the power she had gained over this child to cause significant distress and endangerment to that child. She even stipulated to many of these activities in the police report she filed shortly after Megan’s death.
City officials who continue to ignore this viable, documented admission and continue to address this issue as harassment are intentionally burying their heads in the sand, when the solution is staring them right in the face. Why?
There are several other child exploitation laws on the books. To date, none of them have even been considered by City, State and Federal officials in this case. The Vice is outraged that a motion was never even filed, so that the case could at least be argued before a judge or jury.
Danny Vice
http://weeklyvice.blogspot.com
One can argue that the mother pushed her over the edge. She may not have committed suicide if not for her mother’s callous remarks, however her mother was doing what she thought was right concerning the rearing of her daughter and cannot be found at fault. It is a tragedy of life that shouldn’t have happened, but did. We shouldn’t seek to destroy other’s lives in seeking justice that cannot be found.
Yes because attacking your daughters former friend is very mature as a parental figure. Sometimes I think parenting should be a privilege.
Yes, she was indeed immature. However to put it in perspective, imagine this, there is another young girl out there who is suffering as well. She lost her friend twice and now she may lose her mother. In attacking her mother, are we not also pushing that young girl to a point where she may commit suicide, after all she may feel she is to blame for the whole situation. If she does commit suicide, do you think you should go to prison for her death? If the mother commits suicide are you again guilty of murder for having driven the girl’s mother to such extremes? Vengeance is a human trait, but forgiveness is a learned one.
In the world,there becomes many tyrants. But as for justice, it seems to find those accountable for their deeds, and in a way most unmercifully, does more justice then anyone of us could try to imagine.’ JUSTICE IS MINE SO SAYETH THE LORD MOST HIGH’. Add to that ‘DO NOT JUDGE, LEST YOU ALSO WILL BE JUDGED’. Or in some ‘ VENGENCE IS MINE …..” I would pray for both families
Mike that innocent young girl you are concerned about, took part in this also.
Oh, I didn’t know that she was involved, but I would still push the same point, which is forgiveness. Unfortunately our children are always guilty of hurting each other unmercifully, that is no surprise. The adults should have shown a better example, but didn’t as do so many. Do we as a race continue to be unmerciful and thus continue the tradition?