MySpace Hoax Victim Kills Herself

[midwesterngirl]

Originally Posted by KSig RC

I doubt the adult knew the actual extent to which the child was unstable - I doubt anyone did, quite honestly, or different actions would have been taken.

Also, being cruel is not the same as causing someone's suicide - this is beside the fact that many breakups end with one person intentionally inflicting hurt on another. I think the analogy rings far more true than you give it credit.

Child vs. Adult is one thing, but that's also part of my point - we're overreacting because of the adult's involvement, when we should be focusing on the painful and preventable loss of a child who likely did not receive the treatment, support or attention she needed.

I am sure that the woman in question didn't mean for it to go this far. Cynically or naively I guess,I would just like to assume that an adult should know better from the start than to deliberately set up a situation like this. I'm not even talking about the suicide. I am raising a child around this age (11) and as an adult,I can't even imagine setting up one of her friends in a like situation. I would call it unthinkable to me not in the horrific sense but that I know that I would never even think of something like this as a means to problem solving.

I work with small children for a living so it is very difficult for me to view this situation unemotionally. I can't get past the "what the hell were they thinking" stage.

[KSUViolet06]

This is so sad. The woman definitely wasn't right to meddle in her kid's drama to this extent, but she couldn't have known that this girl would kill herself. I wonder how her parents didn't know she was in such an unstable state of mind.

[SydneyK]

According to this article:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071203/...ternet_suicide

there will be no criminal charges filed against the people who sent this girl the cruel messages. After the case went public, however, lawmakers have been asked to review state laws in order to better deal with internet bullying cases in the future.

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by SydneyK

After the case went public, however, lawmakers have been asked to review state laws in order to better deal with internet bullying cases in the future.

Ok, this whole story was sad, but I laughed when I read that. Y'all know why.

[Tom Earp]

Originally Posted by AlphaFrog

Ok, this whole story was sad, but I laughed when I read that. Y'all know why.

Because that is the type of person you are?

[AlphaFrog]

Originally Posted by Tom Earp

Because that is the type of person you are?

[ZTABullwinkle]

Someone posted on another board I read that this blog is from the mother who created the profile: Megan Had It coming

Wow... I can only hope this blog is a fake, because this is downright scary to read.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by ZTABullwinkle

Someone posted on another board I read that this blog is from the mother who created the profile: Megan Had It coming

Wow... I can only hope this blog is a fake, because this is downright scary to read.

Under the assumption that it's real: An adult, a parent, doing to a 13 year old girl the very things that were tearing her daughter apart.

She claims that she merely encouraged others to stand up to Megan, and that in the process "oops" some thing slipped out. Sorry. Uh uh. she should have taken away MySpace from her own daughter, or gee, made her profile PRIVATE. How can you 'prank' on someone whose profile you can't see? To turn around and inflict it on the perpetrator does not make you some beacon of internet justice, it makes you a vengeance-seeking hypocrite.

And then to keep your mouth shut because "well they lost their daughter, what could I say?" How about telling them everything you knew, witnessed and participated in. How can a parent be so callous when another parent loses a child... Oh because covering your ass and keeping your mouth shut clearly trumps honesty.

Originally Posted by ZTABullwinkle

Someone posted on another board I read that this blog is from the mother who created the profile: Megan Had It coming

Wow... I can only hope this blog is a fake, because this is downright scary to read.

The fact that her blog's name is "Megan Had It Coming" just goes to show that Lori Drew feels no remorse whatsoever for her hand in Megan Meier's suicide.

She feels confident enough to tell her "story" to the world now that she knows charges will not be filed, but in reality, she should feel damn scared as hell for the vigilantes who'll stop at nothing to make sure Lori Drew pays for what she's done.

I hope that this haunts her and eats at her for the rest of her life.

[ZTABullwinkle]

Originally Posted by OTW

The fact that her blog's name is "Megan Had It Coming" just goes to show that Lori Drew feels no remorse whatsoever for her hand in Megan Meier's suicide.

She feels confident enough to tell her "story" to the world now that she knows charges will not be filed, but in reality, she should feel damn scared as hell for the vigilantes who'll stop at nothing to make sure Lori Drew pays for what she's done.

I hope that this haunts her and eats at her for the rest of her life.

I don't know what bothers me more...that she seems to have zero remorse for what happened while "defending her daughter" or that she is defending what she did.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by ZTABullwinkle

I don't know what bothers me more...that she seems to have zero remorse for what happened while "defending her daughter" or that she is defending what she did.

But don't you understand!!! I was just defending my daughter in the only way I knew how!

An anonymous commenter made this comparison:
"Your 10 year old son beat up my 10 year old son, so it's ok for my 34 year old husband to go beat up your 10 year old son" It's not a perfect analogy, but the point is spot on.

[mu_agd]

Originally Posted by ZTABullwinkle

I don't know what bothers me more...that she seems to have zero remorse for what happened while "defending her daughter" or that she is defending what she did.

Or that she filed a police report because she feared that people would harrass her or damage her property.

Jezebel has been pretty good about discussing this situation.

[nittanyalum]

I seriously couldn't even bring myself to click into one link to read anything further about this situation or that awful woman, I am so thoroughly incensed and disgusted, I just don't know what I would do if I were Megan's parents...

[texas*princess]

Originally Posted by KSUViolet06

This is so sad. The woman definitely wasn't right to meddle in her kid's drama to this extent, but she couldn't have known that this girl would kill herself. I wonder how her parents didn't know she was in such an unstable state of mind.

I saw this story on the news not too long ago. It wasn't secret that the girl who killed herself was on anti-depressants for a very long time.

When the parents tried talking to the woman, her (the woman's) response was "get over it".

That lady has absolutely no remorse for what her actions did and that really bothers me.

The women sent messages (under "Josh's" name) like "the world would be better if you never existed" before the girl committed suicide.

[skylark]

Okay... maybe I'm just a little naive about blogs and the posts on Megan Had It Coming are from two different people... I think, though, that the first blog post at the bottom of the blog is Lori Drew (once again) pretending to be a teenager. She says that she was at Megan's school and Megan was a bitch, etc. Does anyone else find it really disturbing that Lori Drew started the blog out as a complete impersonation just like her impersonation of "Josh"?