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| Woman Indicted In MySpace Suicide Case                             |
|   from the eye-for-an-eye dept.                                    |
|   posted by Soulskill on Friday May 16, @03:48 (The Courts)        |
|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/05/16/0443232 |
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[0]longacre writes “The Associated Press is reporting [1]an indictment
has been handed down in the sad case of Megan Meier, the girl who
committed suicide after receiving upsetting MySpace messages from someone
she perceived to be her boyfriend. It was later determined the boy, Josh
Evans, was a fictitious identity created by a neighbor of Meier’s family.
Lori Drew, of a St. Louis suburb, has been charged with ‘one count of
conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without
authorization to get information used to inflict emotional distress on
the girl.’ Interestingly, despite the alleged crime having occurred
strictly in Missouri, the case was investigated by the FBI’s St. Louis
and Los Angeles field offices, and the trial will be held in Los Angeles,
home of MySpace’s servers. Wired is running a related story about the
[2]potentially ’scary’ precedent this case could set.”

Discuss this story at:
http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=08/05/16/0443232

Links:
0. http://www.nycaviation.com/
1. http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90MA9IG0&show_article=1
2. http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/05/myspace-indictm.html