MySpace Mom Back on Computer

By Steven Mikulan Thu., Aug. 6 2009 at 1:57 PM

Categories: Full Court Press

It had to happen sooner or later: Lori Drew, the so-called MySpace Mom, is back at her terminal. In 2006 the Missouri woman created a young hunk in cyberspace whose fictitious MySpace posts led to a fragile girl's suicide. Last November Drew, 50, beat most of the federal

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Drew With Attorney Dean Steward

conspiracy and computer-fraud charges she faced in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles, and had the remaining convictions later overturned. While Drew had never been charged with directly causing or intending the death of 13-year-old Megan Meier, the girl's death hung like a cloud over Drew's trial, which was pressed by no less than U.S. Attorney Tom O'Brien and two co-prosecutors.

Associated Press reports that the Missouri mom recently took a job that requires her to use a computer and today received permission -- apparently from her trial's judge, George Wu -- to do so. Reaction has been swift and not as forgiving. "Folks, I DO have a problem with this," Elizabeth Bennett wrote in a post titled "Oh No! Lori Drew Is Back!" on BloggerNews. "For starters, this woman took the life of a young girl who suffered from clinical depression by using the internet,"

"As Mrs. Drew was not punished or held accountable for her crimes or Megan's death," Bennett continued, "who is to say she is not going to go back online and pull this stunt on another child that her daughter may be feuding with?"

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Thanks for the article this is just the thing I needed to see.
I mean, come on... I know that the state will ban some people from carrying weapons for various crimes. By the standards that Drew is being allowed, these people should have every right to apply for a job where they would be allowed to handle & carry deadly weapons & then complain that they should be able to get special permission to handle said weapons. I don't care that Drew is unlikely to do such a thing again. All I care about is that now a very dangerous precedent has been set & in the future many other people, some who might do even more harm than Drew has, will be able to use this same argument for their cases & situations. This judge is a fool. If Drew wants to find a job then she can do what everyone else in a situation similar to her's is: find a job that doesn't entail using the banned items. If it has to be a lower paying or rougher job, well then tough cookies. You should've thought of that before you did what you did.
I do have a problem with this. Drew committed a crime when she antagonized & bullied Meier. The punishment was that she was unable to use the internet. So why is Drew getting special treatment? What about all of the other criminals out there who have been banned from specific workplaces, living in certain areas, or going to specific places? Since Drew is apparently a special circumstance, shouldn't all of the other criminals out there be given special treatment as well? I don't think she'll ever do anything like the Meier stuff again, but that's not the point. The point is that Drew was given a punishment & evidently the courts don't think that she should have to stick to it. Drew could have very easily found a job that did not involve having to use the internet. Many office jobs do not require the use of a computer & some would have been willing to work around this. If she couldn't do the job without using the internet, tough cookies. You did something terrible & you have to live with the punishment. Considering that she helped fuel someone's destruction, she got off lightly. Maybe Megan would have killed herself because of something else, but that's not the case here either. Drew & her employee willfully bullied Megan into thinking that she would be better off dead. (In fact, they repeatedly told her that.) Whatever her previous mental status was, Drew & her employee's actions caused Megan's death. Shouldn't they both still be held accountable for it?
Ms. Bennett's seems to be one that doesn't let a little thing like facts get in the way of her rant. Evidently, neither do you.
Maybe the lads over at 4chan will get news of this. Lets hope.

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