Girl Commits Suicide after Myspace Hoax Options

[breakingdawn]

The parents of a 13-year-old Missouri girl who hanged herself after a failed MySpace romance — later uncovered as a hoax — say they have yet to receive an apology from the family they blame for their daughter’s death.
“They’ve absolutely offered no apologies,” Ron Meier told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer on Monday. “They sent us a letter in the mail, basically saying that they might feel a little bit of responsibility, but they don’t feel no guilt or remorse or anything for what they did.”

Rather, said Tina Meier, the people are upset with her for going public with their story. Last week, while shopping, she ran into the woman who invented the hoax, Tina Meier said.


“She asked me to stop doing all of this,” she told Lauer. “I told her that we would not stop, that we were going to continue for justice for Megan because we knew what they did.”

The Meiers’ daughter, Megan, hanged herself Oct. 16, 2006.

The Meiers have not named the people because they do not want to identify their teenage daughter, who had once been a friend of Megan’s.

After the two girls had a falling out, the mother invented a 16-year-old boy, “Josh Evans,” created a MySpace account for him, and made Megan believe he was new in town and thought she was cool.

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WTF? What kind of mother would ever do that?! Do you think the parents should press charges?

[ersatz]

She obviously felt like she knew and understood this person really well. She was already having troubles with her friends and probably didn't have very many, so to finally find someone who understood her would have been really exciting. She had all this shit going on with her friends and then she loses the one person that gets her and likes her? That would be completely traumatizing. She lost everyone who liked her, everyone who understood her. She didn't really have anyone to relate to.

It doesn't fucking matter whether a person is on Myspace or not, if you know the person through the internet or not. They're still a person. Why is meeting someone in person then flying to a different state and getting to know them on the internet make them any more important to you than meeting someone on a forum and getting to know people? I don't understand why people think that the location of someone should make them any different to you. The fact that some girl lives in another state shouldn't discredit my friendship with her. That's dumb.