MySpace Mom: 20 Year Term Not Enough

When "Josh" requested to be Megan's "friend," at first her mother was wary. "She had a new friend request and she looked at it and it was a picture of a really good-looking boy. She looked at me and said, 'Oh my gosh, Mom, he is so hot.' And I said, 'Do you know who he is?' And she said, 'No,' and I said then I don't think you should add him."

Tina Meier testified Wednesday in the trial of Lori Drew. Drew is accused of organizing an online prank that led to the suicide of Meier's daughter.

But Tina Meier said Megan was persistent and she finally relented.

"I was afraid that if I didn't, that she would close down," Meier said. "And you know, we had been working very, very hard on opening up and talking and building that relationship."

Megan and Josh's initial instant message exchanges were harmless, but Meier says she sensed there was something off about her daughter's new friend.

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"I was very open with her. I said, 'You know, Megan, we don't know who this person is. This could be a 48-year old pervert. This could be a 16-year-old person or a 20-year-old person. Remember, people can be anybody they want to be on the computer.'"

The two developed a virtual friendship that lasted more than a month before things inexplicably took a downward turn. "Megan gets an e-mail, or a message from Josh on her MySpace Oct. 15, 2006, saying, 'I don't know if I want to be friends with you any longer because I hear you're not nice to your friends,'" Tina Meier said.

The next day, Ashley, posing as Josh, got into an argument with Megan online that ended with Josh saying that the world would be better off without Megan.

Megan hanged herself that day.

Ashley Grills, 19, said in an interview with "Good Morning America" that Lori Drew was involved in creating the account and wrote some of the messages to Meier.

"We were just combining ideas about how we can figure out what Megan was saying about Lori's daughter," Grills told ABC News' Deborah Roberts. "It was all three of us — me and Lori and her daughter."