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Clueless parents blame daughter's suicide on cyber-bully

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tibor75

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Way to deflect attention from your own failings as parents

Parents say fake online 'friend' led to girl's suicide - CNN.com

DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Missouri (AP) -- Megan Meier thought she had made a new friend in cyberspace when a cute teenage boy named Josh contacted her on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her.


Teen's parents say she thought she had made a friend through the social networking web site MySpace.

Megan, a 13-year-old who suffered from depression and attention deficit disorder, corresponded with Josh for more than a month before he abruptly ended their friendship, telling her he had heard she was cruel.

The next day Megan committed suicide. Her family learned later that Josh never actually existed; he was created by members of a neighborhood family that included a former friend of Megan's.

Now Megan's parents hope the people who made the fraudulent profile on the social networking web site will be prosecuted, and they are seeking legal changes to safeguard children on the Internet. (Yeah, creating a fake persona is a crime :slappy: idiots )
 
Someone using Josh's account was sending cruel messages. Then, Megan called her mother, saying electronic bulletins were being posted about her, saying things like, "Megan Meier is a slut. Megan Meier is fat."
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So far this is sticks and stones BS.


Megan's mother, who monitored her daughter's online communications, returned home and said she was shocked at the vulgar language her own daughter was sending. She told her daughter how upset she was about it.
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Way to focus on the main issue Ms. Meier.
Megan ran upstairs, and her father, Ron, tried to tell her everything would be fine. About 20 minutes later, she was found in her bedroom. She died the next day.
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So, harsh as this may sound, one can argue that it was the parents handling of this matter that sent their daughter of the deep end.

Of course they are completely and utterly stable folk right?

Megan's parents had been storing a foosball table for the family that created the MySpace character. Six weeks after Megan's death, they learned the other family had created the profile and responded by destroying the foosball table, dumping it on the neighbors' driveway and encouraging them to move away.
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Nonetheless this must have brought the grieving parents together?

Megan's parents are now separated and plan to divorce.
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Everyone's a winner in this tale.
 
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scarletandgrey;999710; said:
Take notes Tibs that is how you successfully bully on the internet
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Yeah, sorry tibs

1. Josh Evans
2. tibor75

The woman who created the fake profile has not been charged with a crime. She allegedly told the St. Charles County Sheriff's Department she created Josh's profile because she wanted to gain Megan's confidence to know what Megan was saying about her own child online.
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Wow.
 
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