3 years in prison sought for MySpace hoax

[RamboLiberal]

Source: MSNBC/AP

A Missouri mother should serve three years in prison for her role in a MySpace hoax on a 13-year-old neighbor who committed suicide, federal prosecutors said in court documents filed Wednesday.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Mark Krause outlined the government's position while requesting the maximum sentence for Lori Drew. Probation officials have recommended Drew receive a year of probation and a $5,000 fine.

Krause argued that Drew "coldly conceived of a scheme to humiliate" Megan Meier, a neighbor in a St. Louis suburb, by helping create a fictitious teenage boy on the social networking site and sending flirtatious messages in his name to the girl.

The fake boy then dumped Megan in a message saying the world would be better without her. She hanged herself a short time later.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30607568/

[aquart]

1. Oh, yes. Depraved indifference to human life.

To deliberately do that to a hormone-saturated teenager?

[Hoopla Phil]

2. Is that all?

[Merlot]

9. Kids do this type of stuff to each other, that's one thing. She was an adult

messing around with a kid. Sick and sad.

[valerief]

3. And Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, and Gonzales go free. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. That's a good start.

Is that all?

[tabasco]

5. Good thing she didn't have pot plants in her closet.

Or she would be a FELON.

[L0oniX]

6. Sounds like some prosecutor is hard up for something worth while to do.

[bluesbassman]

8. Do you know the facts in this case?

What she did was stupid and criminal. She was perpetrating a fraud that resulted in death. Three years is appropriate.

[dipsydoodle]

14. Yes - 3 years at the very least

What a cow to do such a thing. x(

[liquid diamond]

11. Just curious. Do you think the prosecutors are over the top

for wanting to put this bitch away for 3 years? That's a slap on the wrist in my opinion. She is responsible for her victim's suicide.

[JonLP24]

15. They asked for more

The jury found her not guilty of other charges and couldn't reach a unanimous verdict for the felony conspiracy charge. As far as 3 years seems fair, may have caused emotional distress but did not physically kill the child.

[tomm2thumbs]

7. how about 3 years in prison for Bush for IRAQ HOAX?!

I'd take 2

[Highway61]

10. If she were your child....

How would you feel? Three years? You figure it out.

[t0dd]

12. She deserves a much longer sentence than that

How could an ADULT do that to a child? Create a fake identity like that, toy with a 13-year old girl's emotions, and tell her the world would be better off without her? What a despicable human being.

[bunnies]

13. That evil bitch deserves a hell of a lot more prison time than that.

That poor girls parents must be furious. Hell, I'M furious. :nuke: