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Lori Drew Indicted in MySpace Suicide Case
Drew pretended to be a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans. Meier began talking with “Josh” over the social networking site. She hung herself in October 2006 after receiving cruel messages from Drew posing as the boy. One of the messages said the world would be better off without Meier.
Drew’s daughter was a former friend of Megan’s. The hoax was created so Drew could see when Megan was saying about her daughter.
Drew was charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization. She denied creating the MySpace and sending the messages to Megan.
The indictment says that Drew and other people, who were not named, conspired to violate the service terms of MySpace; which include not promoting false information and not to use information to harass or abuse another person.
After Megan committed suicide, Drew and the unidentified people deleted the MySpace account. An employee of Drew’s, Ashley Grills, told Good Morning America that she created the account but her employer wrote most of the messages to Megan.
Grills, 19, said she intended to end the hoax when she told Megan the world would be a better place without her. “I was trying to get her angry so she would leave him alone and I could get rid of the whole MySpace,” she said.
Drew will be arraigned in
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