Showing posts with label cyberbullying. Show all posts
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Saturday, December 5, 2009
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Lori Drew to Be Sentenced for MySpace Suicide Hoax
Drew faces up to three years in prison and a $300,000 fine for what prosecutors described as a "scheme to humiliate" 13-year-old Megan Meier, Drew's former neighbor in a St. Louis suburb, by helping to create a MySpace profile for a fictitious teenage boy named "Josh Evans ."
Drew, with her own teenage daughter and a business assistant, Ashley Grills, used the fake profile to flirt with, befriend and then abandon Meier, leading Meier to hang herself, prosecutors contend.
Federal prosecutors charged Drew under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which bans unauthorized access to computers and has previously been used to combat computer hacking, for violating MySpace's terms of service.
Unauthorized access to computers for violating MySpace's terms of service...........
Drew's lawyers and outside legal experts have argued that the unusual prosecution could broaden the scope of what's considered criminal conducton the Internet .
Drew, with her own teenage daughter and a business assistant, Ashley Grills, used the fake profile to flirt with, befriend and then abandon Meier, leading Meier to hang herself, prosecutors contend.
Federal prosecutors charged Drew under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which bans unauthorized access to computers and has previously been used to combat computer hacking, for violating MySpace's terms of service.
Unauthorized access to computers for violating MySpace's terms of service...........
Drew's lawyers and outside legal experts have argued that the unusual prosecution could broaden the scope of what's considered criminal conduct
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