Gadgets, Computers, and Internet

The federal jury issued an indictment against Lori Drew, housewives, participated in online harassment class-his daughter using social network Myspace.com.

13-year old Megan Meyer committed suicide in 2006 after its "virtual boyfrend" Josh Evans, with whom she met through Myspace.com, sent it through internal correspondence in the social network stream of insults, saying, in the end, Meyer that in school all hate and that without it the world will be better. Meghan Meyer is so shocked that it had imposed on themselves a hand.

After that it became clear that with Megan thus not met a Josh Evans, and Lori Drew, 47 - year old neighbour Meyer, whose daughter was once friendly with Megan. Girls possorilis, and then Lori Drew decided to "find out about her daughter Megan Meyer said." And then she and some of its subordinate Ashley Megan Grill began to terrorize, even though both knew that one passes medical treatment of depression. To get excited performers role "Josh Evans" is not stopped, and eventually disaster occurred. While Drew and Grill argued that Meyer wrote insulting letters just to stop this game.

In 2007, local investigators have not found in the actions of Drew and its subordinate of an offence. Subsequently, however, the investigation reached the federal level, and the prosecution are presented: Drew is accused of three episodes of unlawful access to protected computer systems and obtain information in order to further causing moral suffering, as well as conspiracy to commit a crime. For each of the episodes it threatens to five years in prison.

Ashley Grill has concluded a deal with investigators, agreeing to testify against his nanimatelnitsy in exchange for legal immunity, although the investigation found that most of the most painful for Meyer wrote messages exactly Grill.

As the injured parties were parents Meghan Meyer and social network Myspace, tool prove the offence. Worth mentioning that Megan had no right to an account in Myspace, because the user agreement stipulates that the minimum age of a user network - 14 years. Terms of Myspace also stipulates that no one has the right to create accounts from others' face and indicate untrue personal data during registration. Drew has violated these rules.

In general, her case is now seen as an example of combating cyber crime and fraud in public networks and so-called "kiberbullinga." "Bulling" - this vellum from Chinese bullying, the notion of designating the harassment or physical and psychological terror of a child.

Fair to note that Drew has proven itself to a certain extent a victim of "terror" from the surrounding, after information about its role in the death of Megan Meyer became public domain.