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Lori Drew Is Indicted!

Posted May 19th 2008 12:03PM by Ada Calhoun
Filed under: Crime, Social Media, Children

Remember how back in December, we were all talking about how sad the Megan Meier case was, and how it was awful that there was no way to prosecute her middle-aged harasser, Lori Drew?

[If you need a refresher here's the AP summary. Basically, this insecure girl Megan Meier, 13, met a 16-year-old "boy" on MySpace who turned cruel and pelted her with vicious messages, including one that said the world would be better off without her. Distraught, Megan hanged herself in her closet while her mother was downstairs. It was later revealed that this boy Megan had a crush on was in fact a fiction created online by a classmate's vindictive mother, Lori Drew.]

Well, it looks like there is justice after all.

'Megan' Blog Leads To More Attacks on Drews

Posted Dec 10th 2007 10:03AM by Ada Calhoun
Filed under: Crime, Children

Just when things seem to be slowing down with the Megan Meier story, that "Megan Had It Coming" blog shows up and (despite the fact that Lori Drew's lawyer has denied Drew wrote it) the outrage at the Drews escalates again.

Now on AOL News is this chilling report of the family's neighborhood, which has become almost "tribal" in its systematic shunning of the Drews: "It's like they used to do in the 1700s and 1800s. If you wronged a community, you were basically shunned. That's basically what happened to her," said Trevor Buckles, a 40-year-old who lives next door to the Drews.

Some of what's been done, according to the report: Last December, after neighbors learned of the Internet hoax, someone threw a brick through a window in the Drew home. A few weeks ago, someone made a prank call to police reporting that there had been a shooting inside the Drew's house, prompting squad cars to arrive with sirens flashing.

Did Lori Drew Create Blog 'Megan Had It Coming'?

Posted Dec 6th 2007 8:26AM by Ada Calhoun
Filed under: Crime, Children, Controversy

When we heard Lori Drew had started a blog called "Megan Had It Coming" to tell her side of the Megan Meier tragedy, we figured it had to be a hoax. But reading it now, we're not so sure. It has an awful lot of detail and all the defensiveness and sociopathy you'd expect from a woman who would destroy a thirteen-year-old girl and then show no remorse.

Here's the link. It already has more than 2,000 comments. Read it and see what you think: elaborate hoax or deeply disturbed confessional?


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