Some Kids Never Have a Chance
When children are being raised by parents who are immature and evil, do those children even have a chance at a life where they will ever know right from wrong?
I am pondering this because of an article I just read about Megan Meier. She was a 13-year-old who killed herself after a boy called Josh she met on MySpace suddenly turned on her and started sending her cruel messages.
It turns out the boy did not exist and his profile had been created by the PARENT of another child who lived down the street from Megan and her family.
Here is how this adult tried to justify her actions. She told the police she created “Josh’s” profile because she wanted to gain Megan’s confidence to know what Megan was saying about her own child online.
What kind of freak does that? Who created a fictitious online profile to fool a child and then uses that profile to terrorize her? What a sick woman this “adult” must be. She was intentionally toying with Megan’s emotions.
Megan already struggled with depression and attention deficit disorder. When “Josh” suddenly ended their online friendship and began sending cruel messages. This was followed by the posting of electronic bulletins calling Megan fat and a slut. “Josh” told Megan the world would be better off without her in it.
What makes it worse is that the woman who created the profile turned the sick little game into a family activity, allowing her daughter and at least one other person to send and monitor the communication between the “Josh” and Megan.
So, what kind of chance does the daughter of this sick woman even have to learn appropriate social behavior?
It’s a poingnant reminder that there are some sick people in this world. Now, the other child’s family are going after the Meiers for financial compensation for the stress they have suffered!!
A brief letter to lawmakers, sheriff’s department and other people — even an email or fax — will show that we will not stand for this harassment, goad them to change legislation to make this kind of online harassment illegal. Megan Meier is not the first kid to be hurt by online harassment, and she won’t be the last. It is the best chance for Lori Drew to actually see the jail time she so richly deserves — and hopefully get her kid some counseling.
People to write and fax a letter to:
Jack Banas, Prosecuting Attorney
Courts Administration Building
Room 601
300 North Second Street
St. Charles, MO 63301
Tom Neer,
St Charles County Sheriff Department
101 Sheriff Dierker Court
O’ Fallon, MO 63366
Fax: (636) 949-3078
E-Mail: sheriff@sccmo.org
Remember – Lori Drew, the woman who started it all, actually had the gall to file a complaint against the parents of the girl she tormented, for destroying a “foosball table” she asked them to hide for Christmas.
The Meier family, when they learned of Drew’s harassment of their daughter months after her death, destroyed the foosball table and drove its remains onto the Drew lawn. The police filed a report about the property damage — but not about Drew’s harassment and goading of Meier?! Ask them to drop the charges and file new ones against Mrs. Drew.
Rep. Doug Funderburk
MO House of Representatives
201 West Capitol Avenue
Room 236B Jefferson City MO 65101
Congressman Todd Akin (St. Louis)
District Offices 301 Sovereign Court, Ste. 201
St. Louis, MO 63011
314-590-0029 voice
314-590-0037 fax
Email: http://www.house.gov/akin/emailtodd.html
If you’re not from Missouri, also write your own senator and representative. Ask them to work on a federal law that would make online stalking, punishable by mandatory community service, mandatory counseling and/or jail time.
http://www.house.gov/writerep/
http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm
Ed Weeks
President and CEO
The Saint Peters Chamber of Commerce
1236 Jungermann Road, Suite C.
St. Peters, Missouri 63376
Fax 636-447-9575
Mrs. Lori Drew is a member of the Chamber. Make sure the Chamber knows that using a business temp to help harass a 13 year girl, while using office equipment, goes against the grain of all ethical business people. Ask that Lori Drew and her company’s membership be suspended immediately.
United States Attorney (Eastern Missouri)
Catherine Hanaway
Thomas Eagleton U.S. Courthouse
111 S. 10th Street, 20th Floor
St. Louis, MO 63102
Fax: 314.539.2309
Carrie Costantin
Assistant United States Attorney
Project Safe Child Coordinator
Cybercrime Task Force
Fax: 314-539-2309
Ask the US Attorneys to take a crack at this case.
Good post. You make some great points that most people do not fully understand.
“Here is how this adult tried to justify her actions. She told the police she created “Josh’s” profile because she wanted to gain Megan’s confidence to know what Megan was saying about her own child online.
What kind of freak does that? Who created a fictitious online profile to fool a child and then uses that profile to terrorize her? What a sick woman this “adult” must be. She was intentionally toying with Megan’s emotions.”
I like how you explained that. Very helpful. Thanks.