Jury convicts mom of lesser charges in online hoax

Submitted by Matt on Wed, 2008-11-26 21:19

Story here. Excerpt:

'LOS ANGELES (AP) - A jury has convicted a Missouri woman of three minor offenses for her role in an Internet hoax that apparently drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide.
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However, the jury found defendant Lori Drew guilty of three counts of the lesser offense of accessing a computer without authorization. Each count is punishable by up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine.

The jurors could not reach a verdict on a conspiracy count. The disposition of that count was not immediately clear.

Prosecutors said Drew violated the MySpace terms of service by conspiring with her young daughter and a business assistant to create a fictitious profile of a teen boy on the MySpace social networking site to harass Megan.'

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"Prosecutors said Drew violated the MySpace terms of service by conspiring with her young daughter and a business assistant to create a fictitious profile of a teen boy"

My first response to that was to wonder if that's been added into the d.v. statistics and used to fuel the d.v. industry witch-hunting of young men, then I wondered how many other female lies are in d.v. industry stats fueling the witch-hunting of all things male.

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Submitted by MR on Thu, 2008-11-27 16:44

You have to remember that the person responsible really is a male, if it weren't for the accused person's(victim #2) father forcing himself on the accused person's mother(Victim #3) then she wouldn't have been born and the little girl Victim wouldn't have died. He probably raped her, must have. That guy should get three life sentences obviously.

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Submitted by Michael on Sat, 2008-11-29 09:38