[LM_NET] Lori Drew verdict overturned

[Nancy Willard <nwillard@CSRIU.ORG>]

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/07/drew_court/

A federal judge on Thursday overturned guilty verdicts against Lori Drew,
and issued a directed acquittal on the three misdemeanor charges.

This was the most ridiculous case to ever have reached a court. Lori Drew
knew that her daughter Sarah and an 18 yo friend, Ashley, had created a fake
profile - established in response to the fact that Megan was spreading nasty
rumors about Sarah. The communications, including the nasty final ones -
which was a brief nasty altercation, were primarily done by Ashley. Plus
some other teen girls. Lori was not even home when this occurred.

Lori should have stopped this - but she certainly was not a criminal for
failing to do so. 

Megan's mother got angry with her when this altercation occurred and the
last thing Megan said to her mother was that she was her mom and was
supposed to be on her side. There were clearly other things going on in this
poor child's life. 

http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/articles/2007/11/13/news/sj2tn20071110-
1111stc_pokin_1.ii1.txt

http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/articles/2007/12/03/news/doc47543edb763
a7031547461.txt

This case is an example of totally outrageous Techno-Panic. Hardly any of
the information most frequently reported is accurate.

Nancy

-- 
Nancy Willard, M.S., J.D.
Center for Safe and Responsible Internet Use
http://csriu.org
http://cyberbully.org
http://cyber-safe-kids.com
http://csriu.wordpress.com
nwillard@csriu.org

Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats: Responding to the Challenge of Online Social
Aggression, Threats, and Distress (Research Press)

Cyber-Safe Kids, Cyber-Savvy Teens: Helping Young People Learn to Use the
Internet Safely and Responsibly (Jossey-Bass)

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