Megan Meier's Online Predator Has New Problems

"MySpace Mom Linked to Missouri Teen's Suicide Being Cyber-Bullied Herself"

I'm doing two posts on the death of Megan Meier today. This is the first, and is today's harangue on the subject. The other is much calmer, I think.

There's a blog called "Megan Had It Coming." The blogger's attitude is summed up in the blog's name. The "Megan" is Megan Meier, the Missouri teen hounded to death by Lori Drew.

A bit of background:

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Lori Drew is the mother of an on-again, off-again friend of the late Megan. The two girls had a falling-out, so Lori Drew thought that Megan was mean to her daughter. Ms. Drew says she just wanted to find out what Megan was saying about the Drew daughter.

There's a pretty good description of what the St. Charles prosecuting attorney said, in the "St. Charles Journal's" "UPDATE: No charges to be filed over Meier suicide."

Thanks to there being no law specifically prohibiting interfering mothers from driving their children's friends to suicide, Lori J. Drew is off the hook, legally speaking.

Which should be a big relief for her and her husband, Curt Drew.

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Turns out that the teenager who Lori Drew paid to help set up the ersatz MySpace account profile was a temporary employee of Ms. Drew's company, Drew Advantage. That teenager is getting psychiatric treatment, now. The kid's understandably upset at being an accomplice in un-murder. Or whatever it is that Ms. Drew did.

Chalk another one up for Ms. Drew.

My guess is that driving an employee crazy isn't illegal, either: providing that the internet is involved.

Back to that "Megan Had It Coming" blog:

An article published today quotes a December 3 post:

"It's time I dropped the charade. Yes, I made this blog. Yes, I'm Lori Drew," the blogger wrote.

The post gave a detailed account of what was done to Megan Meier. Then, the blogger makes a request.

"My daughter had nothing to do with this, ... Everyone needs to leave her alone. None of you can possibly know her involvement, and none of you can possibly know what she's gone through. She's just a kid. She doesn't deserve these brutal verbal attacks. Please stop."

Fair enough. Of course, Megan was just a kid until she committed suicide, and so is the former employee of Drew Advantage - at least for someone my age.

Now, Lori Drew says that she isn't that blogger. So does her attorney.

That could be true.

I don't blame her for denying connection to the blog. Comments on that "I'm Lori Drew" post included phrases like "You have psychological problems," and one that ended with "Don't burn in hell. Instead, I hope you rot in the dirt with the maggots and other disgusting vermin, since that's the only thing you deserve."

The blog service (blogger.com - the same one I use) says that there's no reason to believe that Lorid Drew isn't the "Megan Had It Coming" blog. Impersonation is against their TOS.

Now, the St. Charles County Sheriff's Office is looking into whether the "Megan Had It Coming" blog and other postings falsely attributed to Drew have violated any online harassment laws.

The irony of this is that, assuming that "Megan Had It Coming" is the work of a troll, and not another example of Lori Drew's efforts at self-expression, the impersonator may face criminal charges - thanks to what Ms. Drew did to Megan Meier.

Posts, including this one, about the online predation of Megan Meier:
"Megan Meier's Tormentor: Knowledge is Power"
(December 6, 2007)
"Megan Meier's Online Predator Has New Problems"
(December 6, 2007)
" 'Murder?' Not Legally, but Megan's Still Dead"
(December 4, 2007)
"Ersatz Boyfriend Kills With MySpace"
(November 13, 2007)