The classic girl-meets-boy story that turned terribly wrong in October 2006, when 13-year-old Megan Meier hanged herself in her bedroom closet, will have serious consequences on the person responsible for it. Lori Drew was indicted by a federal grand jury for creating a MySpace account to interact with Megan and drive her to despair. The woman was charged on one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information that caused the young girl emotional distress.

The 49-year-old Missouri woman is held responsible for creating a fake MySpace account using the name “John Evans” and pretending to be a 16-year-old boy interested in Megan. Just when things started to go well between Megan and her so-called friend, Josh Evans turned against her all of a sudden and started sending her negative comments. His last message to Megan was: “The world would be a better place without you,” and that is when the young girl decided to end her life.

The reasons for Lori Drew’s actions are far from reasonable: although the woman denied the accusations, she reportedly created the fake account to find out what Megan thought about her daughter. However, according to her lawyer, although aware of the account (which she denied having created), she did not send any messages to Megan Meier (which is why the investigation has been stalled for so long).

This time however, the jury decided that such a behavior is not acceptable, and although the case is unprecedented, it should be a sign that social networking is not a tool to bully or harass another person, especially a young girl, and that such actions will most certainly have serious consequences. Lori Drew will appear for an arraignment in a Los Angeles District Court in June.