And you think America is NOT psychotic ..??
See: http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Megan_Meier
http://pysih.com/2007/11/19/lori-drew/
and more if you just google Lori Drew and hit "news" ..
Seems to me we have the classic behaviour of a psycopath here on the part of Lori Drew. And the PROBLEM there is that society so often tolerates their behaviour,which is not considered mentally deranged!
There is nothing "normal" about psychopaths; they have no conscience but it isn't labelled as mentally defective. Trying finding it in a DSM - diagnostic statistical manual. And give it a google search and see if I am not right.
This is the classic case of power and control being used to harm a child, exactly the same as sexual abuse which isn't about "sex" as much as CONTROL.
No wonder people are so upset and no wonder so many are ANGRY.
Why this community is not organizing to get crisis workers together to help out the survivors of the trauma crisis is beyond me. Everyone who is coming into this situation is in full scale GRIEF. Someone died.
I don't advocate the stalking of Lori Drew: however, I sure don't like the fact that people are pointing fingers at those who are clearly upset.
I think it's time that some adults who understand trauma entered the scene and helped out. PRONTO. This is all so upsetting; no wonder people are ballistic.
I ask you ... What does Homeland Security and the FBI actually do?? What does all this tax money actually get spent to DO??
 Tina, left, and Ron Meier pose for a portrait in their daughter Megan's bedroom in O'fallon, Mo., on Sunday. (Stephanie S. Cordle/P-D) |
DARDENNE PRAIRIE — One night last week, well after most of the families in this quiet community went to bed, a half-dozen police cars sped down Waterford Crystal Drive, lights flashing.
A man, they were told, had been fatally shot inside a home.
Neighbors opened doors, peered out windows and watched. As many as 15 deputies, they said, drew weapons and charged the home of Lori and Curt Drew.
But there was no body lying in a pool of blood. No weapon in Curt Drew's hand.
The neighborhood is angry.
Residents are struggling to understand what happened here, in two homes four doors apart.
By now, the story is the subject of both national discussion and schoolyard lore:
One year ago, 13-year-old Megan Meier tied a cloth belt around a support beam in her closet and hanged herself. Her parents first said she was driven by a soured online romance, and the cruel, taunting Internet messages of a boy named Josh Evans.
Then they were told that Josh Evans didn't exist — that the Drews had concocted him to get back at Megan for quarreling with their daughter. According to a police report, Lori Drew said she wanted to know what Megan was saying online about her daughter and had "instigated and monitored" the fake account.
The Drews declined to comment for this story.
For the next year, the Meiers struggled privately for justice.
The FBI seized computers and interviewed families, yet gave up after a few months. Representatives from the St. Charles County Sheriff's Department said they could find no appropriate criminal charge. A U.S. prosecutor said much the same.
Even early interest from high-profile law firms, the Meiers say, has died down recently.
Authorities say there's little they can do.
And that leaves a neighborhood enraged at its own neighbors — the Drews.
"I flick 'em off whenever I see 'em," said Dave Beard, 26, who lives next to the Meiers.
The police are now worried residents will take the law into their own hands.
"Everybody in our department knows what's going on," said Lt. Craig McGuire, spokesman for the St. Charles County Sheriff's Department. "And everybody is afraid of what's going to happen there."
ACROSS THE COUNTRY
The problem, police and prosecutors say, is that technology is outpacing the law.
In some cases, said Jack Banas, St. Charles County prosecutor, the trouble is with evidence, and tracking the source of threatening Internet messages. "It may not be your neighbor who is sending it to you," Banas said. "It may be someone from another country."
In other cases, laws don't yet address online misconduct.
"It's a vast problem," he said.
And a national one.
In Florida, Jeff Johnston, 15, hanged himself by his book-bag strap in 2005 after three years of cyberspace bullying. His mother and principal had tried to stop the threats but couldn't.
In Vermont, Ryan Halligan, 13, hanged himself four years ago, after instant messages insulted and threatened him for months.
And here in O'Fallon this past April, a teen, now in college, got more than 500 sexually threatening and harassing messages through MySpace — the same social networking site Megan used to meet and talk to the fictitious Josh Evans.
Sometimes law enforcement can find ways to prosecute the bullies. But much more often, the indiscretion doesn't fall into an existing crime category.
Megan Meier
In Megan Meier's case, authorities don't even see a misdemeanor.
'MY NAME IS JOSH'
Megan struggled with depression and a lack of confidence most of her life, her family said. She even threatened suicide a few times.
Megan was so badly bullied in seventh grade, and so unhappy, her parents pulled her from public school and moved her to the local Catholic grade school.
By the start of eighth grade, Megan had improved dramatically, her mother said. Her grades were good. She had shed a few pounds, as well as troublesome friendships. She seemed happy.
At roughly the same time, the Meiers gave Megan back Internet privileges she had lost in seventh grade after she and the Drews' daughter had set up a fake MySpace account, they said.
Back online, a boy messaged Megan almost immediately. Megan's mother was suspicious but let them talk under tight supervision.
Megan and Josh chatted online for roughly six weeks, Tina Meier said. Megan thought Josh really liked her. Her confidence soared.
Then, on Monday, Oct. 16, 2006, Josh told Megan he'd heard she was a bad friend. According to the FBI transcript, Josh wrote: "yeah this is how i want to end it."
Megan was distraught: "josh i thought u were a nice guy but u ant ur just another (expletive) (expletive)."
Her mother told Megan to log off, then left for an appointment.
Megan, desperate to know who had told Josh she was mean, kept typing. As she guessed names, some of those teens fired back responses.
The effect, Tina Meier said, was an online pile-on.
The final message of the evening, the Meiers said, pushed their daughter over the edge. It's not in FBI transcripts. But Ron Meier remembers it saying this: "The world would be a better off place without you."
Tina Meier returned home to find her daughter sobbing at the computer. Meier sent Megan to her room.
Roughly 20 minutes later, Ron and Tina found their daughter hanging by a belt, knees bent, toes on the ground.
THE AFTERMATH
Megan Meier died the next day, just short of her 14th birthday.
But it took nearly six weeks before the Meiers found out Josh was fake.
Neighbors had to keep Ron Meier from attacking the Drews.
"I thought about killing them, cutting their heads off," Ron said.
Instead, Tina and Ron took an ax and a sledgehammer to a foosball table they had been storing for the Drews. They spray-painted "Merry Christmas" on its box, and dumped the splinters in the Drews' driveway.
The moment galvanized the neighborhood against the Drews.
The Meiers say the Drews came to their door several times, but the Meiers refused to talk. The Drews sent a letter, too, wanting to tell their story: "Things have now taken a turn that suggest that whatever information is being discussed surely goes beyond what we know."
Over the next year, it became clear to the Meiers that neither law enforcement nor law firms would bring the justice they wanted. They turned to the media. The Suburban Journals broke their story a little more than a week ago.
Overnight, the story made national headlines.
Bloggers ran with the story, inserting their own opinions. Thousands of readers responded. Erica Leger, 15 and a student at Francis Howell High School, wrote on facebook.com: "Show this to everyone, parents or other adults. We need to do something. Her death will be avenged."
The Meiers swore to fight for new laws.
The media attention has helped. Banas, the St. Charles County prosecutor, has decided to review the case. The Dardenne Prairie Board of Aldermen has pledged to adopt a new ordinance making Internet harassment a misdemeanor — the strongest measure it can take.
A BROKEN FAMILY
Before Megan's death, the Meiers were on top of life, neighbors said.
Court records show they had a 40-foot, $123,000 motor-yacht, a $300,000 house in a gated community in Florida, and a neighborhood they loved.
Now, they have the bills. Their Florida home is on the market. They've each filed restraining orders against the other. They're getting a divorce.
"Our family's broke up," Ron said. Tina moved in with her mother. Their other daughter, 11-year-old Allison, spends most of her time there.
The house on Waterford Crystal Drive feels empty, Ron says.
In Megan's room, he's put everything back as he remembers it. Her clothes are hanging again in the closet. Boy band posters cover the walls. The bed is made.
Ron has added stuff, too. A pink Christmas tree, decorated by friends. Two volleyballs, signed by Megan's teammates and classmates. A Hershey's bar, just like Megan used to give out, for good cheer.
There are also two light-up angels, hung in the front window.
Most nights, when Ron gets home and the street is dark, he plugs in the angels, and he feels a little closer to Megan.
Jessica Bock of the Post-Dispatch contributed to this report.
Now read this!! Talk about dysfunctionality!!
Megan Meier MySpace Suicide: Blogger Says “Megan Had it Coming”
More Evidence of Internet’s Dark Side
Blogger Calls Dead Girl “Slut”
Anonymous Blogger Brags She “Covered Her Tracks Well”
A Sick Afterthought to a Sad Case
“You guys are totally wrong about Megan. I’m sick of all the news putting the blame on the lady. I knew Megan and what really went on you can read about it here: http://meganhaditcoming.blogspot.com/
kristen”
The above comment appeared suddenly on our story “Megan Meier MySpace Suicide: Cruel Hoaxers Outed, Let the Lesser Outrage Begin“. Because DBKP has been covering this sad story from the moment it appeared, we supposed, the commentator felt compelled to let us know her feelings.
The comment was left by a poster named “Kristen” and led us to a blog by the sick name of “Megan Had It Coming“.
We checked out the blog and found one post on it. That post, in its entirety follows. At the end of it, “Kristen” brags that no one will be able to track her down.
Sunday, November 18, 2007
Set the record straight
I want to set the record straight about Megan Meier. I’m calling myself Kristen because if i don’t want to give out my real name.
Megan and I were sort of friends. I always saw her at school and sometimes on myspace when her mom would let her on. I need to talk about what she was like because everyone has this picture of this innocent girl who had this horrible thing done to her. That’s sorta true but not totally.
Megan was a total drama queen. Yeah i know it was depression or whatever but it was hard to be her friend for very long because she would always lose it and turn into a psycho. That’s why the daughter stopped being friends with Megan. Let’s call her laura. Every other day Megan would have some crisis and you could see her freaking out down the hall or screaming at someone for stabbing her in the back or not listening to her or whatever then she would go cry to Laura unless it was her pissing her off. You couldn’t say anything to megan without her taking it the wrong way.Read the rest of the story:
Megan Meier MySpace Suicide: Blogger Says “Megan Had It Coming”
Sources:
Megan Meier MySpace Suicide: Blogger Says “Megan Had It Coming”
and those quoted above.
Mondoreb blogs at Death By 1000 Papercuts. Interested readers can e-mail him at
mondoreb@gmail.com.
For those of you who feel powerless against this injustice, please read. You are not powerless.. Public pressure CAN result in the proper handling of this case as it has many times before.
Example:
About a month ago, a child nearly drowned in the family swimming pool. The child was pulled inside the house to try to recessitate the child.
A cop who showed up after paramedics arrived, ran into the house and slipped on the wet floor. A floor wet, because the child was soaking wet.
After the cop received full pay for her workman's comp claim...and after all of the cops medical bills were paid....this cop proceeded to sue the family of the boy who is now a vegitable.
Public outrage and anger lead to the cop's suspension from the force...and the cop was finally forced to repeal her case.
Had this story been covered up and hidden, this cop would have gone forward and sued this grieving family while their child was still in intensive care.
See... you do have a voice... public pressure can give a victim a small amount of justice.
Megan Meier deserves at least a little justice in all this - not just some new law named after her.
If you feel the adult child predator in this case should bear some kind of responsibility to her part in this, then make sure your voice is heard.
Ms Drew could set this up on your child next...
Even if you watch your child like a hawk....remember the following.
Your child's friends have computers.
Your child's school has computers...
Libraries have computers...
If your child desperately desires to get to a computer, they will find one eventually...
And Ms. Drew, and others like her are waiting.
Justice deserves to prevail here...and so far it has NOT!
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