Case Is One of the First to Use Computer Hacking Law to Prosecute Cyberbullying
Opening statements could begin as early as this afternoon in a potentially landmark trial of a suburban mother accused of organizing an online hoax that ended in the suicide of her teenage neighbor.
Prosecutors say Lori Drew, 49, along with her daughter and assistant, used the social networking Web site MySpace to trick and torment Megan Meier, an insecure 13-year-old girl who lived down the street in Dardenne Prairie, Mo.
Drew and others allegedly pretended to be a 16-year-old boy named... Full Story
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