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Uploaded: May 17, 2008 at 5:34 am
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Please visit: www.youthsagainstcrimes.orgMissouri woman, Lori Drew (49 years old), is now facing criminal charges for ALLEGEDLY taunting/cyber-bullying 13 year old Megan Meier on MySpace.Lori Drew faces conspiracy and three counts of unauthorized computer access. A federal grand jury in California heard the case. Drew faces a maximum of five years in prison on each count, if found guilty.Cyber-Bullying is illegal in about 10 states, and additional states are expanding their laws to include Cyber-Bullying as an illegal act.FOR MORE INFORMATION AND UP-TO-DATE INFORMATION ON THIS CASE PLEASE VISIT: www.youthsagainstcrimes.org or the below article provided by itworld.com.--Youths Against Crimeswww.youthsagainstcrimes.orgSource: http://www.itworld.com/Tech/29... NEWS* 5/15/08 -- 5/16/08: ITworld.com reports: "A Missouri woman whose online taunting was blamed in the 2006 suicide of her 13-year-old neighbor now faces criminal charges.A grand jury on Thursday handed up an indictment charging Lori Drew, 49, of O'Fallon, Missouri, which is 30 miles west of St. Louis, with one count of conspiracy and three counts of unauthorized computer access. A federal grand jury in California heard the case because that is where MySpace, the Web site where the taunting occurred, is located. Drew faces a maximum of five years in prison on each of the counts.Drew, her teenage daughter and a third woman, Ashley Grills, who worked for the Drew family, reportedly created a MySpace.com profile under the fictional name Josh Evans in order to taunt Megan Meier, who had been a friend of Drew's daughter and lived on the same block.Cyber-bullying is illegal in about 10 states, and a handful of others are now considering extending their laws to address the issue.After county officials in Missouri investigated the incident in late 2007, they decided that the Drews and Grills had not engaged in criminal behavior and had set up the account only to monitor what Meier was saying about her former friend."Source and for the full story please go to: ITworld.com.Please visit: www.youthsagainstcrimes.org