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Megan Meier is dead and there is
nothing that would bring her back. However, after more than one year since the
13-year-old girl’s strange tragic death, an even weirder legal war started. MySpace,
the social networking web site that was theoretically involved in the teenager’s
suicide case, now finds itself involved in one of the most unusual legal wars
ever!
According to a Los Angeles Times
report from Wednesday MySpace’s representatives were some of the people who
were issued a subpoena in the investigation of Megan Meier’s 2006 suicide case
that involved harassment through a fabricated profile on the popular social
networking web site. Additionally, “witnesses in the case” were also called by the
federal grand jury that is investigating the case.
Thomas Mrozak, a spokesman for
the United States’
office of Los Angeles Attorney General, declined to confirm the report. However,
according to Los Angeles Times’ anonymous sources, the investigation would eventually
determine whether the creation of a fake identity to harass the teenage girl
could be considered Internet fraud under federal statutes.
Despite this report and after
almost one year of investigation, federal prosecutors in Missouri were not able
to press charges against Lori Drew, the mother who was accused to have set up
an online account using the fake identity of an inexistent 16-year-old boy, “Josh
Evans”, and communicated with Megan Meier in the month before she killed herself.
Lori Drew was reportedly helped in her devilish plan by her teenage daughter,
Meier’s former friend, and a former employee.
In November 2007, Megan Meier’s
hometown of Dardenne Prairie, voted a law banning online harassment. Offenders
face up to 90 days in jail and a $500 fine, or both.
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