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This is insane. Parents are not supposed to live their children’s lives. Part of growing up is having friends, fighting, making up or breaking up. It’s called life, and kids need to learn lessons, sometimes good and sometimes bad. Too bad Lori Drew, 47, never thought of that. Read until the end please…Lori may have started a new blog:
Megan Meier died believing that somewhere in this world lived a boy named Josh Evans who hated her. He was 16, owned a pet snake, and she thought he was the cutest boyfriend she ever had.
Josh contacted Megan through her page on MySpace.com, the social networking Web site, said Megan’s mother, Tina Meier. They flirted for weeks, but only online — Josh said his family had no phone. On Oct. 15, 2006, Josh suddenly turned mean. He called Megan names, and later they traded insults for an hour.
The next day, in his final message, said Megan’s father, Ron Meier, Josh wrote, “The world would be a better place without you.”
Sobbing, Megan ran into her bedroom closet. Her mother found her there, hanging from a belt. She was 13.
Six weeks after Megan’s death, her parents learned that Josh Evans never existed. He was an online character created by Lori Drew, then 47, who lived four houses down the street in this rapidly growing community 35 miles northwest of St. Louis.
As awful as that is, it appears that no laws were broken. What makes this even worse is what follows:
At one time, Lori Drew’s daughter and Megan had been “joined at the hip,” said Megan’s great-aunt Vicki Dunn. But the two drifted apart, and when Megan changed schools she told the other girl that she no longer wanted to be friends, Ms. Meier said.
In a report filed with the Sheriff’s Department, Lori Drew said she created the MySpace profile of “Josh Evans” to win Megan’s trust and learn how Megan felt about her daughter. Reached at home, Lori’s husband, Curt Drew, said only that the family had no comment.
Because Ms. Drew had taken Megan on family vacations, she knew the girl had been prescribed antidepression medication, Ms. Meier said. She also knew that Megan had a MySpace page.
Ms. Drew had told a girl across the street about the hoax, said the girl’s mother, who requested anonymity to protect her daughter, a minor.
“Lori laughed about it,” the mother said, adding that Ms. Drew and Ms. Drew’s daughter “said they were going to mess with Megan.”
After a month of innocent flirtation between Megan and Josh, Ms. Meier said, Megan suddenly received a message from him saying, “I don’t like the way you treat your friends, and I don’t know if I want to be friends with you.”
They argued online. The next day other youngsters who had linked to Josh’s MySpace profile joined the increasingly bitter exchange and began sending profanity-laden messages to Megan, who retreated to her bedroom. No more than 15 minutes had passed, Ms. Meier recalled, when she suddenly felt something was terribly wrong. She rushed to the bedroom and found her daughter’s body hanging in the closet.
As paramedics worked to revive Megan, the neighbor who insisted on anonymity said, Lori Drew called the neighbor’s daughter and told her to “keep her mouth shut” about the MySpace page.
Six weeks later, at a meeting with the Meiers, mediated by grief counselors, the neighbor told them that “Josh” was a hoax. The Drews were not present.
“I just sat there in shock,” Mr. Meier said.
Shortly before Megan’s death, the Meiers had agreed to store a foosball table the Drews had bought as a Christmas surprise for their children. When the Meiers learned about the MySpace hoax, they attacked the table with a sledgehammer and an ax, Ms. Meier said, and threw the pieces onto the Drews’ driveway.
“I felt like such a fool,” Mr. Meier said. “I’m supposed to protect my family, and here I allowed these people to inject themselves into our lives.”The police learned about the hoax when Ms. Drew filed a complaint about the damage to the foosball table. In the report, she stated that she felt the hoax “contributed to Megan’s suicide, but she did not feel ‘as guilty’ because at the funeral she found out Megan had tried to commit suicide before.”
Is this a new blog that Lori Drew started? It’s called: Megan Had It Coming
Look at the titles of the only 2 posts on the blog. It appears that people assume it’s Lori’s, and when you read the posts, they don’t appear to be written by a 13-14 year old…Who’s really at fault? and Set the record straight
The St. Charles Journal has more
It looks like Kevin Drum picked up on the story last week:
I recommend that you read Jonathan Turley’s short op-ed first, which packs a punch and explains the basics. Then read P.J. Huffstutter’s longer piece, which fills in the gaps. If you’re anything like me, prepare to lose another little shred of faith in your fellow man.
UPDATE: More here.
Thanks to UrbanGrounds for linking to the story…Let’s get the word out on this one!
The Republic of T. and The Atlantic Online, have more.
Thank-you to Memeorandum for the link
It may not bring their daughter back, but I would sue the snot out of Lori in civil court!
Hey, is this the Lori’s company?
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6- I’ve read about that story earlier on.
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November 29, 2007 - 09:52 AM on November 29th, 2007
What exploitation? Do try to explain.
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November 30, 2007 - 03:49 AM on November 30th, 2007
10 Exploitation by not omitting the precise names of the involved people. I read that the Megan’s mother meanwhile even appealed to the public to not start witch hunt against Ms. Drew and her family…
Stuff like this happens every day. People commit suicide because of heartache or other incidents in which other people were involved. But on this sad story some journalist scented the smutt-factor to be stinking enough to bring it to the public…
What a poor society that has to entertain themselves with such crap!
November 30, 2007 - 09:37 AM on November 30th, 2007
It isn’t a whitch hunt, it’s a bitch hunt..Lori Drew is a 48 year old mother that knew this child was being treated for medication…it kinda looks like the fact that Megan dumped the Drew kid, pales in comparison to this woman that really doesn’t feel as bad because Megan talked about suicide before…
Why should the Drew name be kept from the public..the public has the right to know who they are dealing with.