This story sounds straight out of some weird juvenile novel or dumb daytime judge tv show. Two 13-year-olds (Megan Meier and another unnamed teen) stop being friends. Lori Drew, the other teen's 46-year-old mother decides to set up a MySpace account, to find out what Megan's been saying about her daughter. Not too big of a deal, right? Hold on, it gets stupid from here.
The MySpace identity that Lori creates, with the help of then 18-year-old teen (Ashley Grills who used to work for her husband), is that of "Josh Evans", an imaginary 16-year-old teen boy. Josh targets Megan and strikes a friendship to woo her. They have a friendly online relationship until "Josh" turns on Megan, becoming abusive, telling her that the world would be better off without her. Megan who has a history of clinical depression, which Lori and her daughter were well aware of, commits suicide after being dumped by her friend's mother -- err Josh, whatever. Creepy.
The prosecutor decides that no charges will or can be charged against the mother regarding Megan's suicide. There is no evidence that suicide was her goal and what they did to her does not constitute cyber-stalking or anything criminal. The fact that a 46-yr-old woman (along with the 13- and 18-year-olds) posing as a teenage boy is chatting up a 13-yr-old sounds like something that would usually lead the cops to your door for attempted child molestation.
Here's the skinny on the legal footnotes to this crazy mess.
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