No Charges in MySpace Bullying Suicide Case

By Monica Comersan
23:31, December 3rd 2007
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No Charges in MySpace Bullying Suicide Case

Last year, Megan Meier, a 13 year old girl committed suicide after receiving a critical message on the social networking site, MySpace.

The teenager kept on having normal conversations to someone who has presented to be Josh for several weeks before the unfortunate event. Actually, an 18 year old young woman was trying to find out, the teen’s opinion about a neighbor’s girl, under the fake name of Josh.

The Missouri prosecutor could not press charges in this case as there was no intent of the young women, who sent to the teen the message saying that she was mean to her friends, to draw her to killing herself.

The day that Megan received this message and responded with inappropriate words to the sender, her mother came to the room and found her crying at the computer. After reading the correspondence, she told her daughter that she shouldn’t use these kinds of words. Megan ran in her room responding her mother that she couldn’t believe that her mother isn’t on her side and than hanged herself.

The judge also stated that adults should have prevented what happened. He also added that he is unable to file charges, as Missouri’s harassment statute doesn’t specify about the Internet situations and stalking statute requires repeated conversation, which doesn’t apply in this case.



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