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+-   Woman indicted in MySpace suicide case-> on Thursday May 15 2008, @04:53PM longacre

Submitted by longacre on Thursday May 15 2008, @04:53PM
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longacre writes "The Associated Press is reporting an indictment has been handed down in the sad case of Megan Meier, who committed suicide after receiving upsetting MySpace messages from someone the girl 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."
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