Megan Meier (picture left), a 13-year-old girl who committed suicide after being hoaxed by a couple who posed online as a 'cute boy' named Josh.
From FOX:
Josh contacted Megan on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her.Update: The hoaxer whose bully drove Megan Meier's suicide was revealed. She is Lori Drew (Laurie/Lorry Drew), the 48-year-old neighbor of Meier's family.Megan, suffered from depression and attention deficit disorder, corresponded with Josh for more than a month before he abruptly ended their friendship, telling her he had heard she was cruel. Then she hanged herself in her bedroom the next day on Oct. 16, 2006, and died the next day.
Josh told her he was born in Florida and had recently moved to the nearby community of O'Fallon. He said he was homeschooled, and didn't yet have a phone number in the area to give her.
Megan's family learned later that Josh never actually existed; he was created by members of a neighborhood family that included a former friend of Megan's.
Now Megan's parents hope the people who made the fraudulent profile on the social networking Web site will be prosecuted, and they are seeking legal changes to safeguard children on the Internet.
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