A Missouri woman was indicted by a federal grand jury for her alleged role in an online MySpace prank which led to the suicide of her 13-year-old neighbor girl.

Lori Drew of St. Louis faces one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization. She is accused of obtaining information and using it to inflict emotional distress on the teen girl.

The indicted woman allegedly created a fake profile on MySpace and contacted her teen neighbor Megan Meier. The 13-year-old thought she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy named "Josh Evans."

Through the fake profile, the woman allegedly sent Megan very cruel messages which determined her to hang herself inside her home on October 2006. In one of the messages, Drew said that the world would be better off without Megan.

However, the Missouri woman denied the accusations.

If convicted, she faces several years behind bars. The conspiracy count carries a maximum penalty of five years, while the counts of accessing protected computers carries a maximum possible penalty of five years in jail each.

A few weeks ago, Ashley Grills, a 19-year-old employee of Drew, acknowledged that she created the false MySpace profile, but Drew wrote and sent some of the messages to Megan.

In an interview to ABC's "Good Morning America", Grills said Drew came up with the idea of talking to Megan through the internet in order to find out what she was saying about her daughter, a former friend of the girl that later killed herself.

The last cruel messages were sent to Megan’s MySpace profile with the intention of ending her fake relationship with "Josh" because Grills felt the joke had gone too far.