Megan Meire's Death

Junior High, when you are just learning to live and independent live. You’re no longer a child. You’re not even an adult yet. A night out with your friends, to a movie, perhaps. What is there to really worry about? It is time to leave to leave all the drama behind. You’re at your highest point of technology, having a conversation could not be any easier when you happen to be a couple of miles away and can easily access a computer.
Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, Megan Meire a young girl not even 14 years of age sits at her computer browsing for new friends. A young 16 year old gentleman approaches her with a friend request. Catching her eye she approves. They begin to talk more and more. Josh was home schooled did not have a phone yet because he had just moved into town. They never saw each other in person or spoke. Soon they became closer than anyone would have thought. Having suffered of depression and attention defaces disorder which she was under medication for, her parents are happy to see that their daughter is happy. Even though they were concerned for their daughters’ online safety, seeing her happy over powered that feeling.
A couple of months later what had been a blossom of a great relationship turned around. What started out as welcome compliments turned to unwanted insults. In an email exchange between Megan and the Josh Evans, Josh Evans told Megan that he no longer wanted to be her friend because he had heard that Megan was mean to her so called friends. A long with more insulting emails. As if that wasn’t enough the emails shared between the two teens had been revealed to the world. Bulletins were posted instigating that Megan was a “ho “. Eventually Megan’s mother, Christina Laherty found out. Christina Laherty confronted Megan do to vulgar language that Megan had use in those emails. Megan replied, “You are supposed to be my mother you are supposed to be on my side”. She them stormed into her room. Minutes later Josh said "Everybody in O'Fallon knows how you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a shitty rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you." Meier responded with a message saying “You’re the kind of boy a girl would kill herself over.”
About 20 minutes later her parents found her in her closet. She had hung herself. Despite all the attempts to revive her, Megan died the next day.

Josh Evan was nothing more than a fictional character. Or at least that was what he was supposed to be. "Gaining Megan's confidence and finding out what Megan felt about her daughter and other people", that was the purpose. This fictional character and account was created by a mother of what was supposed to be Megan's friend. Lori Drew's admitted that along with her self and daughter, Ashley Grills, an 18 year old coworker and several other people contributed to the account. A simple plan to find the truth, a game of online harassment ended a young life 3 weeks before her 14Th birthday. Cyber bullying kills.
“If you bully somebody face to face, and they get upset, you see them cry and be hurt. When it's over the Internet, you can't see the emotional reaction and go along thinking it's no big deal.”
-Robin Kowalski