MYSpace hoax: District Judge acquits Missouri mother for her role

By admin on Monday, July 6, 2009
Filled Under: Internet Tech

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.

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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.

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