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Some people believe Lori Drew was not responsible for the death of  a 13 year old girl, their main arguments stand as follows:

1. Kids tell each other the meanest shit every day, should they be put in jail?

2. Kids should be brought up believing the internet is imaginary and should discard everything they hear

3. The Parents should of monitored their Childs' internet chatting

4. Myspace is an "adult social meeting site", it’s not for children

Okay first off, the difference between kids telling each other mean things, and adults targeting the weaknesses of a 13 year old girl are staggering, this "mother", this adult who has a daughter of her own, knew about the person who she was slandering, knew about her mental state, knew about her flaws, due to this knowledge she could hurt her in unbelievable ways. 90% of all "playground" smearing is done by people who don't like each other. Not a person you trust, due to hours of chatting, this women got close to her victim before murdering her. She got the trust of the girl, and then when she was weakest, and most vulnerable, she attacked, ultimately causing the death of a poor girl.

The internet is not so imaginary; as we are brought up we learn through personal experiences that the internet is reliable, whether through school reports, or projects. We learn that the internet is hardly ever wrong about anything.

As a teenager myself, I can understand more than most of you here, that parents can’t monitor what we do. We do what we want on the internet, and no old timer that doesn’t even know how to access the internet, will ever be able to hinder us. We teenagers are on our computers most of the day, talking to friends and reading blogs. Through this much experience we know how to get past your simple minded website blocks you put up. That being said, I also think it is ridiculous that some of you would even suggest that parents should have so much control that they choose our friends and boyfriends/girlfriends. Think about when you were a child, did you ever listen to your parents when they told you that you couldn’t see some person that you like. We are children but we must be given the responsibility to choose who we hang out with.

Myspace is not an adult meeting site, almost every person in my friends list is someone I know from school, it has risks but so does everything. If teenagers were not on Myspace then, we would be somewhere else, and there wouldn’t be a Myspace left. Myspace only survives through the teenage age bracket that it advertises to.

I would like to conclude that while Lori Drew did something atrocious, and unjustified, she should not be punished under the extent of the law. Suicide is a personal matter; it doesn’t mean your weak, just tired. Tired of the world and how it has been treating you. Lori Drew will be punished on a different level, through realization that she aided the death of a child. While Drew was responsible in pushing the young girl towards the cliff, it was the choice of the child’s to jump. If the law prosecutes people over a different person’s choice then we are going to see unheard of ramifications, including callous abuse of the judicial system, and a devolving society thrusting their own moral guidelines into the court, a court which must be based on an impersonal biased jury to survive.     

I send my sincere sympathies to the family of this girl.  It is a terrible tragedy to lose a child under any circumstances.  I know this from personal experience and the pain is indescribable.

Honestly, we do need to realize that common sense here would show that a dangerous precedence could be set here if another can be prosecuted for the self-inflicted suicide of another person.  Let's understand that even a child of 13 can still understand right from wrong and even be prosecuted in court for a crime against another.  In some states a teen can be prosecuted as an adult for capital crimes.

What is so dangerous here is that everyone wants someone to blame.  That is the problem with society today is that few are willing to accept responsibility for anything.  I am not here to blame the parents or Drew for what happened here.  This boy could have been real and the same could have happened.  Why would you hold the boy responsible if he was real?

The fact remains that the girl inflicted harm upon herself and it is a tragedy but you can not try to shift the blame to another.  These kids are not as dumb as you think!  I hold my three children accountable for their actions and challenge them to always do their personal best and ALWAYS remember that no matter what.... Dad and mom love them and will ALWAYS be willing to listen.  To me this is the best a parent can do to stay involved in your children's lives at any age.  What the child does is of his or her own consequence since you can not protect them 100%.  It is rediculous to keep passing laws to punish others you don't even know or pass judgment on someone because you want someone to blame.

That is like saying all Islamic people are terrorists or those on the sex offender list are all predators (one might be your child who has sex with his girlfriend when he is 16 and she is 15).  Be careful who you blame because one day the blame could be directed at you. 

While I feel deep sorrow for Megan Meier, I am also concerned with how prosecuting Lori Drew will impact our legal system, making someone responsible for someone else’s suicide will  harm otherwise law-abiding people. People who commit suicide are not often rational thinkers. And we have recently seen how those in power abuse it.

It is just a small step before some overzealous prosecutor charges someone with “causing” a suicide for telling his or her spouse that she or he wants a divorce. Is a stockbroker responsible for a suicide because a client lost a lot of money? Lets not introduce the idea that someone “made” someone else commit suicide into our legal system

It appears that many of the responses are about not needing to take responsibility for your actions. This little 13 year old girl paid the ultimate price for her actions. But somehow the cause of this decision should not have to take any responsibility whatsoever for their actions.  It seems to me these people are the typical "Bevis & Buttheads" of our society. Their ability to think with any dept or breadth is hampered by a poorly developed sense of responsibility. They won't take responsibility for any of their actions so why should anyone else. Thank God people like this are few in our society. I believe that the comment about how these people would not say these things if they had their true identities known hit the nail on the head. These people are ignorant cowards.

I think  Lori Drewshe should be prosicuted just on the basis of leading the other girl on in to thinking she had a boyfriend

It seems that the world in which we live has become so insensitive to the needs of others that a story like this just doesn't seem 'real' enough.  The Internet provides a view to the world that is real but in many ways is not real.  I think when people take the reality of another human being in their hands and manipulate that reality to the point that a person pays the ulimate price there is really not a clear path to true justice.  As an adult we have the responsibility to help guide and teach young people how to use the Internets educational and entertainment value rather than use it as  a murder weapon.  In this case I'm sure the predator couldn't have forseen the outcome of her actions...but her actions were harmful at the very least.  I think that she should receive the harshest penalty under the law not only as a personal lesson but to show the rest of the world how dangerous the Internet can be in the wrong hands.  I am both sickened and haunted by this story as any normal person would be.  I just hope that someday Lori Drew will realize that the Internet is not some fantasy land that she can manipulate for her own evil means.  I think that someday will be five years from now and I truly hope she spends that much time behind bars.  You can say that Megan had mental issues but have you stopped to think that Lori could have helped to solve some of those problems instead of using them to kill the poor girl?  The whole thing makes me sick.

I am astounded by the ignorance of some of these comments! Is this what this world has come to? No one wants to take responsibility for their actions.

Blame the parents? I would like to know of one parent that has complete control of their children 100% of the time. 24/7 It's impossible with the technology that is available.

So what if the victim had mental issues. The adult that caused this tragedy should be checked also. What kind of a person would take pleasure in making someone's life that miserable. Just because they can!

If people would think through their actions and take into consideration the consequences. Maybe half of these idiotic tragedies wouldn't happen.

Someone has to be accountable for these kinds of acts. Myspace cooperated because they don't want to be associated with this kind of daily happenings.

Just because someone is weaker than you does not give a person the right to take advantage of it.

Word to the wise: No matter how strong you think you are there is always someone stronger!

We are pleased that the LA prosecutor found a way to indict the Evil Lori Drew. Certainly Megan Meier had personal issues - but as an "alleged" adult, Lori Drew's behavior is - well.. horrendous, careless and lacked judgement.

To see a parent do this to another child is - well Evil. So we at http://www.what-a-world.com are pleased she was indicted and hopes she gets some jail time.

If I were legally positioned to respond to public outcry, I would hold the parents responsible for the suicide. whether the boy did or did not exist is irrelevant. The thirteen year old was mentally unstable, leading the question to inquire into the family life and stability in the home. Where were the parents oversight? Unless the little girl was emancipated and legally an adult, the parents remain responsible for their children's well being, actions, upbringing, and assisting their children with choosing friends, talking about boys, girls, classmates, and how HARD it is growing up to be a teen. Nothing replaces the comfort of a parent's interest in their children's life, even though some kids rebel against it. I bet this little girl was crying for her parent's attention and gave up.

FACT: that poor little girl felt she had no where to turn, not even to her family. Her family failed her without providing a support system. Unfortunately, she will not be the only suicidie of her kind. Because her suicide was thrust into the spotlight after her parents wanted someone to blame is the reason our mindless government gets involved.

 I say, let her rest in peace, she found it the hard way. Cook the parents on the public grill and hold them accountable.

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