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Megan Meier

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A vicious deception turned deadly in the suburban town of St. Charles, Missouri: A family created a fake MySpace account for their daughter so they could see what the child's 13-year old ex-friend and neighbor, Megan Meier, said about her online. Megan befriended the persona, a 16-year old boy, and became infatuated.

The situation turned ugly. The persona said extremely cruel things and Megan took her own life. Her parents are devastated.

The family who created the MySpace account believe that neither they nor their daughter bear any responsibility for Megan's death. (Further proof that people should pass a mental and ethical competency test before they become parents, imo.) No charges will be filed as the police say they don't have enough evidence for a case.

The family had also given the account password to another girl that Megan knew. Her mother, a single parent, alerted the Meiers several weeks after Megan died.

"She had been encouraged to join in the joke," the single mother said.

The single mother said her daughter feels the guilt of not saying something sooner and for writing that message. Her daughter didn't speak out sooner because she'd known the other family for years and thought that what they were doing must be OK because, after all, they were trusted adults.





Full story here. Comments on that article reveal a great deal of community support as well as outrage that the journalist-blogger didn't reveal the names of anyone who harassed Megan online.

More on MySpace and Bullying.

Also: The St. Charles Journal has posted an update. (Thank you, jlygrnmigt)
The Meiers appeared on Good Morning America. There is a photo of Megan in that article.

Edit: Please do NOT comment on this post with information revealing the name, address and phone number of the anonymous family. If you want to start a witch-hunt, get your own blog. Thank you.

Edit #2: I regret that visiting anonymous commenters don't seem to be capable of following my polite request. So, I'm now screening all anonymous comments and those which don't violate LiveJournal's TOS will be unscreened as I read them. If you have an LJ, you'll still be able to comment freely.

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