Adults dupe teen into MySpace-assisted suicide
 

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It gets kinda complicated, since the reporter doesn't name names, so here's how it went down in bullet-point form:

1. Two teenage girls strike up a friendship, then eventually one, Megan Meier, breaks it off.
2. The jilted friend's family creates a fake MySpace profile of a cute boy, eventually getting other teens in the neighborhood in on the "joke."
3. The fake profile becomes friends with Megan and then basically trainwrecks her.
4. Megan hanged herself in the closet.

What the [censored] is wrong with people? They knew that Megan had a history with depression, and basically set out to destroy her life. And there's nothing the law can do about it.

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OOT has done similar

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jesus, just read article. thats so insane.

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pretty messed up

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jesus, just read article. thats so insane.

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yeah that's absolutely bizarre/sad

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so sick

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Wrongful death lawsuit here? Otherwise I guess it's family feud time.

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Wrongful death lawsuit here? Otherwise I guess it's family feud time.

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...good answer?

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very very [censored] up story.

i wish the pain of losing a young son/daughter on no one.

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Otherwise I guess it's family feud time.

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Ray Combs would be an appropriate host.

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They better get a good amount of time. This is so disturbing.

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It does not appear that there will be criminal charges filed in connection with Megan's death.

"We did not have a charge to fit it," McGuire says. "I don't know that anybody can sit down and say, 'This is why this young girl took her life.'"


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Oh no?

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They won't get a single day in jail, and the parents are idiots for not filing a civil suit. This is pretty [censored] up.

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yea after reading the article, that's pretty psycho. The adults who created the fake myspace account have serious issues

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Ray Combs would be an appropriate host.

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too soon! too soon!

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how does she get trainwrecked?

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they share her PMs, create bulletins saying "Megan is fat," "Megan is a [censored]"

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-Wow, I feel horrible for her parents, they are going to be second guessing themselves for the rest of their lives

- "lets sue" / "lets press charges." *sigh* it was 13 year olds messing around with a grave consequence; while the family would probably win a civil suit what does that accomplish? i hate this sue happy society...

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-Wow, I feel horrible for her parents, they are going to be second guessing themselves for the rest of their lives

- "lets sue" / "lets press charges." *sigh* it was 13 year olds messing around with a grave consequence; while the family would probably win a civil suit what does that accomplish? i hate this sue happy society...

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qft on both counts

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-Wow, I feel horrible for her parents, they are going to be second guessing themselves for the rest of their lives

- "lets sue" / "lets press charges." *sigh* it was 13 year olds messing around with a grave consequence; while the family would probably win a civil suit what does that accomplish? i hate this sue happy society...

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it would punish the retarded other family. based on their actions here they are borderline retarded and have probably already forgotten about this.

obviously this girl's family isn't going to be clinking champagne glasses on a cruise thinking "Thanks megan!".

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A civil suit seems like the only punishment/revenge this poor family will ever exact. It sucks because intuitively it seems that the (other) psycho family should face criminal charges, but if that's not possible then they need to be punished somehow. And it's not just 13 year olds messing around with this, it's the family of a 13 year old getting involved and doing their best to [censored] over some other 13 year old.

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shouldn't the "need for them to be punished" be determined by the parents of the dead girl? i mean obv they could press a civil suit... if they haven't... maybe they're plotting a violent murderous revenge, who knows (and i wouldn't hold it against them, altho they'd obv go to jail and rightly so)

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While what the other family did is just unthinkably mean, I don't think you can really blame them for the kid's death.

One of the things that scares me about having kids is the fear that I would become equally irrational when my own kid gets shitted on in some fashion.

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-Wow, I feel horrible for her parents, they are going to be second guessing themselves for the rest of their lives

- "lets sue" / "lets press charges." *sigh* it was 13 year olds messing around with a grave consequence; while the family would probably win a civil suit what does that accomplish? i hate this sue happy society...

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I agree, trainwrecking the other family(since I am sure the parents of the other daughter would end up paying in some way) would not heal anything. It would only stand to be a revenge suit, since I am sure the legal fees alone would ruin any chance any of the other possible kids(if they have kids outside of the myspace killer) in that 2nd family have of going to college or anything like that.

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This is obviously a horrible tragedy but it seems a little fishy that the last few messages could not be retrieved. Wouldn't they stay on her myspace inbox even if the other account was deleted?

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also a little fishy is that she died "the next day" lol, although it's obv from attempting-to-hang-yourself-related-complications... just strange

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Disturbing story. Pretty crappy parenting on both sides.

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No joke: If somebody did that to my child, I'd kill them.

Obviously, I don't recommend that anyone do this. I am just stating what I believe I would do if I was put in this situation. I'm only 38, but from the last 15 or so odd years, my life has become pretty repetitive, anyway. The only change is that I have a son and its the best thing to see him growing up. If that was taken away from me, well, there's just so much eating, drinking, humping, watching tv, and playing poker that one can do. If I added to that line-up of daily events the sorrow of knowing that some bastard(s) were responsible for killing my child (and the fact that my child was no longer here) I would just as soon die, anyway ... and, I would be taking some revenge before I went.

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I think it'd be pretty understandable if they killed the other parents, I mean obv they'd still hafta goto jail, but I'm not sure I'd be surprised/shocked/offended/whatever if they just went over and shot them or something. Still, I don't think suing them for money accomplishes anything except perpetuating the lawsuit culture..

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No joke: If somebody did that to my child, I'd kill them.

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This is pretty much what I think. I would at least ruin their lives.

To those who are like "Oh you shouldn't sue, all it does is serve revenge," are you people idiots? Someone manipulated your child into killing themselves and you are not going to press charges?

You people have a seriously [censored] up worldview if you let people get away with things like this.

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also a little fishy is that she died "the next day" lol, although it's obv from attempting-to-hang-yourself-related-complications... just strange

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WTF? I hope this is just ignorance and not actually funny to you. Very common for a bad hypoxic event to lead to death over the next few days if you can revive the person initially.

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The only killer was the girl who hung herself. Hurting her feelings with a cruel prank is not the same as killing her. Obviously a horrible thing to do, and a sad story though.

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also a little fishy is that she died "the next day" lol, although it's obv from attempting-to-hang-yourself-related-complications... just strange

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WTF? I hope this is just ignorance and not actually funny to you. Very common for a bad hypoxic event to lead to death over the next few days if you can revive the person initially.

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relax I'm not a coroner ok?

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While what the other family did is just unthinkably mean, I don't think you can really blame them for the kid's death.

One of the things that scares me about having kids is the fear that I would become equally irrational when my own kid gets shitted on in some fashion.

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"Get a mop."

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the more I think about it the more I think the parents "at fault" aren't likely to have any legal responsibiltiy here at all... I mean there's that whole family of whack-job religious fundamentalists (or whatever you'd call them) who travel to the funerals of dead US Soldiers with signs saying "god kills f*gg*t troops" and cheering and such... if they haven't gotten arrested yet then this can't possibly be a crime right?

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An adult, (the other girl's Mom), started the MySpace page to manipulate and spy on her daughter's former friend and then says,

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(She) felt this incident contributed to Megan's suicide, but she did not feel 'as guilty' because at the funeral she found out 'Megan had tried to commit suicide before.'"

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The only thing that would keep me from killing her would be what it would do to my other kid.

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No joke: If somebody did that to my child, I'd kill them.

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This is pretty much what I think. I would at least ruin their lives.


You people have a seriously [censored] up worldview if you let people get away with things like this.

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id much rather kill myself than the other parents if this happened to my kid

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No joke: If somebody did that to my child, I'd kill them.

Obviously, I don't recommend that anyone do this. I am just stating what I believe I would do if I was put in this situation. I'm only 38, but from the last 15 or so odd years, my life has become pretty repetitive, anyway. The only change is that I have a son and its the best thing to see him growing up. If that was taken away from me, well, there's just so much eating, drinking, humping, watching tv, and playing poker that one can do. If I added to that line-up of daily events the sorrow of knowing that some bastard(s) were responsible for killing my child (and the fact that my child was no longer here) I would just as soon die, anyway ... and, I would be taking some revenge before I went.

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This is interesting, I have an analogy which is actually a true story. Say your son is dating a girl in college. He is in love with her. She cheats on him, and then breaks up with him, knowing full well that he has had issues with depression in the past. He kills himself shortly after the breakup. You coming after the girl or the guy she cheated with? Seems to me like it would unwarranted even though they were cruel in a way. I guess maybe the key difference is they weren't doing it to hurt this guy. Does it change anything if the girl wants to hurt your son's feelings because he ignores her/ the guy hates your son for some reason?

Do people deserve to die for being emotionally cruel/mean to somebody that has depression issues?

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the more I think about it the more I think the parents "at fault" aren't likely to have any legal responsibiltiy here at all... I mean there's that whole family of whack-job religious fundamentalists (or whatever you'd call them) who travel to the funerals of dead US Soldiers with signs saying "god kills f*gg*t troops" and cheering and such... if they haven't gotten arrested yet then this can't possibly be a crime right?

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Sorry about being pissy earlier, this whole situation just tilts the hell out of me. Funny you mention the Westboro [censored] cause they did just lose a ginormous civil lawsuit.

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I have a feeling vigilante justice will win the day. Hoping, at least. Being ostracized from the community is a fitting punishment.

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OOT has done similar

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I like how everybody here seems to be ignoring this, when it's definitely true that OOT seems to have a love for trainwrecks that could definitely [censored] with people's heads.

The parents of the other girl are scum. But I think the concept of a lawsuit here is silly, and I find it bizarre how a crowd which frequently enjoys being dicks on the internet (and deriding people who take it seriously) can think otherwise. If being a dick to people is grounds for a lawsuit, I think a lot of us better stop posting here. (EDIT: Seriously, even if the bad guys knew about her depressive tendencies, I don't think it would be a very good argument, and there's a very strong chance they didn't. Why would they know that she had tried to kill herself before?)