Mother accused of the cause of teen's suicide
A Missouri women was convicted Wednesday of three misdemeanor charges after being accused of participating in a MySpace hoax that ended in a young teenagers suicide.
The L.A. jury rejected more serious felonies to this woman.
Lori Drew, 49, allegedly posed as a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans on MySpace and contributed in “an elaborate scheme to inflict massive humiliation” on the emotionally fragile teenager that ended when she hanged herself.
Drew faces up to three years in prison after the federal jury did not convict her on three felony charges. The felony counts had carried a maximum 20-year term.
This has been called the nation’s first cyber-bulling trial. Drew was officially accused of hatching the MySpace romance plan in 2006 because of a feud between Drew’s daughter and the teen. The fictional “Josh” concluded the online flirting by sending a message saying “the world would be better off without Meier(the teen).”
Meier then hung herself in a closet with a belt and died the next day.
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