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US mom indicted for MySpace hoax linked to teen's suicide
0 Comments | AFP, May, 2008
LOS ANGELES (AFP) — An American mother was indicted Thursday in connection with a MySpace hoax that ended with a 13-year-old girl committing suicide after being spurned by a fictitious boy.
A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Lori Drew, 49, on criminal charges of conspiracy and accessing MySpace computers "without authorization to inflict emotional distress on the girl."
"This adult woman used the Internet to target an innocent girl with horrendous consequences," Los Angeles US Attorney Thomas O'Brien said during a press conference announcing the indictment.
"Any adult who uses the Internet or a social networking website to bully another person, particularly a vulnerable teenage girl, should realize this has serious consequences."
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