November 29th, 2008
Mom wants Drew to serve the max - three years and $300,000
I wonder about the response to this
http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4208
the washington post described the incident:
Drew, 49, of Dardenne Prairie, Mo., posed as a teenage boy, "Josh Evans," using a MySpace account to send romantic, then disturbing, messages to one of her daughter's classmates, 13-year-old Megan Meier. Meier thought she was messaging with a new, good-looking boy in town. As the New Yorker magazine said in a January article about the case: "Megan and her peers carried on an online social life that was more mercurial, and perhaps more crucial to their sense of status and acceptance, than the one they inhabited in the flesh."
Meier, who suffered from depression, killed herself in October 2006 soon after reading a message from Drew's account that said: "The world would be a better place without you."
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/washingtonpostinvestigations/2008/11/myspace_suicide_ruling_a_water.html?nav=rss_blog
is the question one of how to prosecute some who does this kind of thing (ie picking the laws based on terms of use, or is the bigger question, do you hold someone responsible for manipulating someone else in a harmful way - do you prosecute someone who falsifies identity and then purposely promotes angst in others in a real-life physical setting?
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The problem here..as far as I can ascertain...is that her local law enforcement decided that they were not able to prosecute her for any actual crime....so the feds tried to jump in with a trumped up hacker crime. Personally....I'm not buying that she couldn't have been prosecuted under current sex crime laws. If she had been a 50 year old guy...and done the same thing, she'd already be in jail and on a sex offender register someplace.
That being said...since her local prosecutors..with their own mentality of bullying, don't believe she did anything wrong...someone had to have a go at her. She is an evil, vicious shit who the world actually would be better off without. Unfortunately...people like her don't care what people think, so I have no fear that she'll ever read anything I write and take my advice.
The net has already punished to a certain extent..by publicizing the story and her address, phone number, family business, etc etc. There is one family who will have this coming back at them for the foreseeable future...and good on them.
Anyway..I agree this is a bad use of a law that was passed for an entirely different purpose. Won't be the first time a law was misused to make someone feel good or for political purposes (how many times was the LA prosecutors name mentioned in those articles?)
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