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It has been called the MySpace suicide case. On May 14, 2008, a federal grand jury indicted Lori Drew, 49, of Missouri, the so-called cyber bully. Ms. Drew had created a MySpace site for Josh Evans, a fictitious teen boy she used as a means of getting information from Megan Meier, a 13-year-old girl with whom Ms. Drew’s daughter had had a falling-out. Josh pretended to be interested in Megan, but then said that she was “fat” and that the world would be a better place without her. Megan hanged herself within an hour of receiving the final comments from “Josh.”
Ms. Drew was charged with one count of conspiracy and two counts of accessing computers without authorization and was convicted of three lesser charges. However, the judge dismissed the charges because of issues related to the meaning of the term “unauthorized use” and whether the federal statutes could be applied to what Ms. Drew did. When the indictment was made public, Salvador Hernandez, assistant director of the FBI in Los Angeles, said, “Whether we characterize this tragic case as ‘cyber-bullying,’ cyber abuse, or illegal computer access, it should serve as a reminder that our children use the Internet for social interaction and that technology has altered the way they conduct their daily activities. As adults, we must be sensitive to the potential dangers posed by the use of the Internet by our children.” Some states have now passed specific statutes to make cyberbullying a crime.
Why would the judge not find a criminal violation? Is it a crime to bully over the Internet?
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