Comments on: No Charges In Deadly MySpace Hoax

Prosecutor Won't Pursue Online Harassment That Parents Say Led To Teen Daughter's Suicide

[lawyertom1]

Some states, such as California, recognize a tort called intentional infliction of emotional distress. Combined with a claim for wrongful death, the parents could make the guano-head''s life miserable, and should.

[dlb31093]

Lori Drew may not be able to be charged under the law, but she sure can be shunned by her neighbors. I sure wouldn''t want her to have anything to do with my family. There is more than one way for a person to be punished for their behavior.

[jjp735i]

The woman who did this should be a shamed and tried for this horrible crime. Let a jury decide her fate.

[glb1969]

If I were the adult who did this to this poor girl, I would either kill myself or be running for my life. In fact, I will put a $10 bet out that these adults don''t survive the year''s end.

[talkingham]

Parents in these cases always have to blame someone else don''t they. It couldn''t possibly be that they weren''t paying any attention to their daughter could it? I''m very sorry for this kid but if she couldn''t take the so-called harrasmnet all she had to do was close her myspace account or block the person bugging her.

This is an absurd and ridiculous story.

Three cheerleaders were killed in Alabama last week when their car apparently left the road for no known reason (though there are survivors of the wreck) and tumbled down a 50-foot embankment. Now the parents are blaming the road, though thousands of people travel on it every week with no problem.

Let''s blame the road, let''s blame MySpace. This is absurd.

[Krazcarl]

Back in the old days sick varmits like this would be dragged from there house and taken care of I''m so sick of political correctness. I have rope and know where there trees with low limbs.

[susanhelit]

The names - and phone numbers - of the people who did this are on the internet - one good site is the People you see in hell site - pysih.com. You can read the whole story there - these people who did this are scum - no conscience, no regret, no apology, they continue to bash the dead girl, were banging on her family''s door on Thanksgiving! to harass them.

It''s only appropriate they get back what they gave.

[neenga]

Have the identities of those who harrassed Mega been made public? I have never seen them identified. Why not?

[yoopermom]

Wow, What sick people. For the Mother (of her friend) to even know anything about this and not do something is just wrong. What kind of adult would do this to a child? I know. Stupid question. All you have to do is watch the news to see the world is full of people like this!!

[nothappyatall]

Kids are cruel to each other in school , the playground etc every day, c''mon get real! they ALL tell fat kids they are fat slobs and all that, and Megan didn''t know it was an adult playing games so it doesn''t matter who "josh" really was.

In reality she was WEAK, as a kid/teen you eaither learn to COPE with petty insults designed to hurt and realise your reaction is giving them what they WANT, or you just curl up and die like she did.

The whole issue is MOM did not control HER computer or HER daughter''s on-line shenangans after the kid had earlier fabricated her OWN personna and was removed.
So the kid had faked a profile and photo of her own to play games on unsuspecting boys, and now it was done back at her.

MOM caved in and let her have ANOTHER myspace acct, it was MOM''s fault there.

"Even as Megan''s hometown, Dardenne Prairie, has adopted a law making Internet harassment a crime, Hitchcock wonders if it has any value"

LOL another useless knee-jerk law that wont do anything, harassment, unwanted repeated contact and especially THREATS are ALREADY a crime! the town passing a law is insane, like this would ever happen there again!

[ann3332]

shame on those people who had nothing better to do that harrasing a 13 year old girl which ultimately led to her sucide.Do you think that was funny what you did she dead now. do you think that funny too.

[jeffjonez]

That''s BULL@#$%!!! gimme a break the man needs to be put in prison. A child killed herself for being bullied on the internet. I have 6 kids if they get bullied I have them do the right thing. THE LAW GETS AWAY ANYTHING,THEY RULE THE LAND( NOT GOD). Let god be with parents of the 13 year old girl. GOD BLESS YOU,

[Krazcarl]

What kind of sick adult mind would find humor in harrasing a 13 year old, there are other issues here for sure

[jetranger7]

She''ll have her Day, maybe a Speeding Freight Train will hit her car ! What goes around-comes around !

[ladyephesus1]

Very immature for an adult to do that to anyone.

They are all sick and need to get a life.

If they didnt kill her, then I say they contributed to her death.

[shanev137]

Actually, they probably should write more laws that make criminals out of everyone who communicates on the internet, because they will scare everyone off the internet and back out into the real world of reality.

We need all the sick people doing what they do on the internet back out into the real world where we can see and hear them do what they do.

[spaspy]

My space accounts have the capacity to block unwanted people from posting to your page. She could have blocked these kids. I think there is another reason she killed herself. Maybe her parents should take a look further into her homelife.

[yongamerica]

The girls depression that led to her suicide was deeper than the myspace harassment. Big egos in little girls.

[shanev137]

It''s clear from this article why they couldn''t prosecute.

The people who told her to kill herself did not pose a direct threat to her, or threaten her life.

Sure it''s not morally right what they did, but the girl ultimately took her own life, which made her responsible for her death.

Nobody showed up at her house, walked through her front door and killed her.

[plplearecrzy]

Unfortunate indeed. Kids are horrible to each other anymore. My daughter refuses to be friends with girls her own age (16) because they are so cruel. It all comes down to the fact that kids no longer socialize with each other...they are too busy playing violent video games, texting and surfing the net. Technology is not ALWAYS a good thing :(