Blog Readers Out Anonymous Adults that Newspaper Refused to Identify:
According to this article from Wired readers of some blogs, not this one, that read the story about Megan Meier have published the names of those responsible for her suicide.
The St. Charles Journal wrote in the story that it decided not to name the woman and the other adult involved in the incident out of concern for the woman’s own teenage daughter. The two adults haven’t been charged with any crime.
But readers of various blogs that posted the story were furious with the paper’s decision. By matching certain details in the article with property records, they found the name and address of a woman who they believe created the Josh Evans persona, and published her details online.
Was the paper right to protect the woman’s identity? Were the bloggers right to publish a name and address that may or may not be correct?
Even though I think the people involved with Megan’s death are scumbags and I hope eventually they are prosecuted and sent away for a long time this is nothing more than a blatant case of vigilantism. I also want to add that I will not post their names here at MyCrimeSpace.
Let the law do it’s job people. By publishing their names you’re jeopardizing the chances of justice being served.
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Liah, you are ANONYMOUS.
LOL
I guess we can see now why she feels such a connection to this Drew Woman. They both are not sure who in heck they are online.
Wow. What kind a person does that shit. Grow up ANONYMOUS/ Liah. You must crave attention to do something so pathetic. I’m at a lost for words. And same to you blake. you must want some kind of attention, you pretty much are asking people to criticize you. PATHETIC. I don’t think i will give you that satisfaction.
DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Mo. (AP) – City officials unanimously passed a measure Wednesday making online harassment a crime, days after learning that a 13-year-old girl killed herself last year after receiving cruel messages on the Internet….
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071122/D8T2HHGG5.html
I was just giving my thoughts, these ARE comments, you know. I don’t care what you think about what I said, I knew most of you narrow minded bigots wouldn’t accept my thoughts anyways. So I let the gate open, and called you in.
Sheep.
I could maybe find some sort of compassion for these people, except that they lack any remorse, and refuse to accept any responsibility.
Scum of the Earth comes to mind. The more I research this, the angrier I become, particularly at the mother, but now her troll offspring has started spewing her filth as well.
If I were Curt, I’d kick both these b—-s to the curb, before I lost everything.
Was the Sarah Drew post really a fake? I’ve seen it posted on other blogs that she wrote the meaganhadit coming and comparing it to this blog as proof.
ANONYMOUS’ comments on this site don’t match up to the Drew’s location and the e-mail address she uses I traced back to a MySpace of someone who is definitely not one of the Drews.
Well Blake you must not know any people who are actually mentally unstable, which megan was. Yes the Drew’s are in part responsible, they slowly pushed her over the edge. But blake it seems like you just wanted a little attention from the people on the site, i hope you got your fix.
Thank you Kathy for the link. Nice to know that even though it is a little too late for one Maybe it will help others down the line.
As far as the daughter of the Drew’s being online posting to blogs we know this is not her posting here. I just do not think that and I know I am giving more credit then is due but I doubt after all this they are allowing their child on the internet for fear someone would target her in the same manner in retaliation. Yes, I know that would take one sick individual but well we have Just those types folks in this world. .
Have the Drew’s even spoken online? Do their myspace profiles the real ones show any recent activity or log ins?
You would think the internet would be last place any of them would wish to be. Than again you would also think they would say I am sorry Show remorse and of course never have done this so again I may be giving them way too much credit on this.
On Wednesday, October 21st, city officials enacted an ordinance designed to address the public outcry for justice in the Megan Meier tragedy. The six member Board of Aldermen made Internet harassment a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $500 fine and 90 days in jail.
Does this new law provide any justice for Megan? Does this law provide equitable relief for a future victim or actually weaken the current law?
I reject the premise of this new law and believe it completely misses the mark. The reasoning behind this opinion is that city officials have consistently treated this case as an Internet harassment case instead of a child welfare/exploitation case.
Classifying this case a harassment issue completely fails to address the most serious aspects of the methods Lori Drew employed to lead this youth to her demise. The Vice disagrees that harassment was even a factor in this case until just a couple of days before Megan’s death.
Considering this case a harassment issue is incorrect because during the 5 weeks Lori Drew baited and groomed her victim, the attention was NOT unwanted attention. It was not harassment at all. It was invited attention. Megan participated in the conversations willingly because she was lured, manipulated and exploited without her knowledge.
This law willfully sets a precedent that future child exploiters and predators can use to reclassify their cases to harassment issues. In effect, the law enacted to give Megan justice, may make her even more vulnerable. So long as the child victim doesn’t tell the predator to stop, even a harassment charge may not stick with the right circumstances and a good defender.
Every aspect of this case follows the same procedural requirement used to convict a Child Predator. A child was manipulated by an adult. A child was engaged in sexually explicit conversation (as acknowledged by Lori Drew herself). An adult imposed her will on a child by misleading her, using a profile designed to sexually or intimately attract the 13 year old Megan.
Lori then utilized the power she had gained over this child to cause significant distress and endangerment to that child. She even stipulated to many of these activities in the police report she filed shortly after Megan’s death.
We can go on and on here, but the parallels between this case and many other child predator cases that are successfully prosecuted bear striking similarities.
Child Predator laws do not require much more than simply proving that an adult has engaged a minor in sexually explicit conversation. Lori Drew has already stipulated that her conversations with Megan were sometimes sexual for a child Megan’s age.
City officials who continue to ignore this viable, documented admission and continue to address this issue as harassment are intentionally burying their heads in the sand, when the solution is staring them right in the face. Why?
On June 5th, 2006, Governor Matt Blunt signed into law stiff penalties for convicted sex offenders. The Vice believes that officials continually reject a child predator classification of this case in order to keep the penalty of this offense out of this harsher realm.
Opponents of this law are active in defeating this law not by changing it, but by disqualifying cases like Megan’s from ever being heard.
There are several other child exploitation laws on the books. To date, none of them have even been considered by City, State and Federal officials in this case. I’m outraged that a motion was never even filed, so that the case could at least be argued before a judge or jury.
Those satisfied with this response out of Missouri officials need to think through the effect this law will truly have. It quite honestly has the potential to directly undermine Jessica’s law. It quiet easily gives prosecutors a way out of prosecuting child endangerment and child predator cases in the future.
Beware the wolf in sheep’s clothing here.
Danny Vice
http://weeklyvice.blogspot.com
Lori Drew is a heartless, remorseless, psychotic monster. She’s a waste of oxygen. And her useless, pathetic daughter defending her actions is just as much a waste of space.
Adults who deliberately stalk and manipulate vulnerable teenaged girls are beneath contempt, and if this had been a man doing it and he had tried to get her to go on a date with him, the world would be screaming bloody blue murder. When it’s a woman, and all she did was knowingly push a mentally unstable child to suicide, well, then people actually DEFEND her? Like it was all OKAY? She bullied an unstable child to death, but because the child was unstable, it’s just FINE?!
One day, karma will pay a visit to Lori and her entire family, and I hope it bites down HARD. They may be feeling the heat now, but what goes around does come around, and when it comes around, it’s gonna be a doozy. I hope it makes international news when it happens.
Danny Vice, whats the point of copying and pasting your comments?
The website sccworlds.com has a video and story on the Megan Meier vigil. Please check it out, and visit our forums to express your thoughts.
To YeahImMale2
MY RESPONSE TO YOUR COMMENT IN CAPS
how can you say that? Children of all ages seek interaction and positive acknowledgement of their peers. SO YOUR POINT BEING WHAT?? TRY TO FINISH A THOUGHT BEFORE STARTING ANOTHER
To say that she was unstable, and good riddance shows your true lack of character. HOW DOES THIS SHOW MY LACK OF CHARACTER? SUICIDE LACK OF CHARACTER. YOU OFFER WITTY PHRSES BUT DON’T BACK THEM UP OR CLARIFY. RATHER SHE OFF HERSELF THAN AN INNOCENT PERSON 13 year old girl! My gawd. OMG You are thick or just trolling? WHAT DOES THIS EVEN MEAN ANOTHER WITTY USELESS WASTE OF SPACE Who cares if she had a right to be there or not. Somone has a flat outside of a closed gas station and gets killed by gun-fire. Someone gets run over by a drunk driver. HOW IN THE HELL IS THIS THE SAME AS SUICIDE YOUR THICK AND ILLOGICAL. How are any of these things different? Should someone in that situation NOT be there? What an ass you are. I can only wish the herd pushes you to the outside of the pack where you belong. I DON’T FOLLOW THE HERD
I hope MySpace gets shut down, just to take away YOUR only avenue of outside communication. I AM GROWN WOMAN I DON’T NEED MYSPACE
cheers blake!! enjoyed your comment.
what a bunch of hypocrits bullying everyone on this forum for voicing their opinion.
maybe ill go kill my self than sue you all
think about it idiots
log off and go pay attention to your OWN kids before they kill themselves for your attention.
lori drew is hot! I wannt to marry her, and her to mother my children…
This is all just so sad. And the fact that people are actually commenting this poor girls death with sayings such as “she was fat and that’s why this happened” is absolutelty HORRIBLE. Megan is dead and people are making a joke out of it! What is wrong with some of you people?! May Megan R.I.P.