Missouri mom found guilty of lesser misdemeanor charges in MySpace suicide trial

[Wretched Excess]

slap on the wrist for a miserable human being.

MySpace Hoax Jury Has Verdicts on 3 of 4 Counts

LOS ANGELES —  The jury in the MySpace cyber-bullying trial of a Missouri mother has told the court it has verdicts in three of the four counts in the federal case.

The jurors said Wednesday they can't reach a verdict on Count 1, which alleges conspiracy to access a computer involved in interstate or foreign communications without authorization.

Defendant Lori Drew has pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and accessing computers without authorization in an alleged scheme to harass a 13-year-old neighbor girl by contacting her through a fictitious MySpace profile of a teenage boy.

The neighbor girl, Megan Meier, committed suicide in 2006 after receiving a message saying the world would be better off without her.

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[Chris_]

The article doesn't bother to tell us what she WAS found guilty of.

Today's "journalists" can't even get a short article right.

[Thor]

This case is going to establish a very bad precedent, I'm afraid. The woman drove this girl to commit suicide. That's basically "murder", but not in the sense she actually killed her. However, where do we draw the line without violating the 1st Amendment ??

[Wretched Excess]

The article doesn't bother to tell us what she WAS found guilty of.

Today's "journalists" can't even get a short article right.

it's a true breaking news item.  they are getting more detail as the minutes tick by.

[Wretched Excess]

Misdemeanor conviction in MySpace hoax trial

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A jury has convicted a Missouri mother of lesser, misdemeanor crimes in the MySpace cyber-bullying case linked to a 13-year-old girl's suicide.

The Los Angeles federal court jury on Wednesday rejected felony charges of accessing a computer without authorization to inflict emotional distress on young Megan Meier.

However, the jury found defendant Lori Drew guilty of three counts of the lesser offense of accessing a computer without authorization.

The jurors could not reach a verdict on a conspiracy count.

Prosecutors said Drew violated the MySpace terms of service by conspiring with her young daughter and a business assistant to create a fictitious profile of a teen boy on the MySpace social networking site to harass Megan.

Megan, who had been treated for depression, hanged herself in 2006 after receiving a message saying the world would be better without her.

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[Ptarmigan]

Lori Drew and company will have to answer to God Almighty and it will be of eternal torment one cannot even think of. They will all end up in the dark corner of Hell rotting with other monsters like Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Idi Amin, and Osama bin Laden. Lori Drew is really Lori Screwed.