US District Judge George Wu acquitted a Missouri mother Lori Drew for her role in a MySpace hoax on Thursday. This MySpace hoax became the cause of a 13-year-old girl’s suicide in Lori’s neighbor.
George Wu said that Lori Drew was being acquitted for wrong counts of accessing computers without authority, but at the same time the ruling would be tentative as long as something it is not issued by him in written form.
Lori didn’t show any reaction to that decision. It was back in November when she was convicted and according to the judge if she is found guilty of doing this, everyone who violates the terms of the social networking site to be reckoned as a guilty of an offense and this is the thing which is quite unconstitutional and also needed to be addressed through new legislation in this connection.
A lengthy review has been given over the defensive request to dismiss, delay sentence from May and to go on the testimony from prosecution witnesses. Wu says in this review that the proceeding of the case was allowed to him when he was charged with the offense, but the real constitutional problem was that Drew was convicted for her misdemeanor. The judge cleared Drew’s role in the case, but she didn’t came in the court with her attorney.
According to Dean Steward, the defense attorney, The Los Angles office of the US attorney didn’t come up with the charges in the case which originates in Missouri.
Steward says that “US attorney must be shameful to bring this case and the prosecutors of the St. Louis have that right.
On the other hand, Megan Meier parents, who killed herself, said in the court that they were disappointed, but still they think that justice has been done.
Tina Meier also says that she is going to devote her life to educate teachers and parents about the possible harms to their kids in their internet lurking.
Drew’s case has been in limelight for quite sometime, as it was the first cyberbullying trial in the US.
Source: news.aol
Tags: girl’s suicide, lori drew, myspace hoax, social networking site
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