'Dan Vice' is right on target with his assessment of this case.
We encourage our readers to please read our other post below (originally published 11/20/07) and write, email and/or call those listed at the bottom and make your outrage heard.
We believe charges can & should be filed against Lori Drew immediately for her sociopathic and deadly actions against a vulnerable 13 year old.
WE DO NOT CONDONE VIGILANTE JUSTICE. Calls and pressure on lawmakers however are encouraged. We also believe letting the Drew's advertisers know the sort of people they were doing business with was right. CLICK HERE FOR MORE And Mrs. Drew, when you answer the charges against you - we want you to tell the judge to "Give it a rest."
On this Thanksgiving Day, could you please be with the Meier family- surround them with comfort and peace during their mourning...
.....and will you please put the Drew family to death? Some horrible death including but not limited to: beheadings by guillotine, a cancer so horrible- they are not allowed to experience any pain relief (and we all get to enjoy it live on TV!), live killings in an arena type setting by a man eating crocodile, or they can be murdered by Charles Manson (right in the comfort of his own cell!) That would be fine.
On Wednesday, October 21st, city officials enacted an ordinance designed to address the public outcry for justice in the Megan Meier tragedy. The six member Board of Aldermen made Internet harassment a misdemeanor, punishable by up to a $500 fine and 90 days in jail.
Does this new law provide any justice for Megan? Does this law provide equitable relief for a future victim or actually weaken the current law?
I reject the premise of this new law and believe it completely misses the mark. The reasoning behind this opinion is that city officials have consistently treated this case as an Internet harassment case instead of a child welfare/exploitation case.
Classifying this case a harassment issue completely fails to address the most serious aspects of the methods Lori Drew employed to lead this youth to her demise. The Vice disagrees that harassment was even a factor in this case until just a couple of days before Megan's death.
Considering this case a harassment issue is incorrect because during the 5 weeks Lori Drew baited and groomed her victim, the attention was NOT unwanted attention. It was not harassment at all. It was invited attention. Megan participated in the conversations willingly because she was lured, manipulated and exploited without her knowledge.
This law willfully sets a precedent that future child exploiters and predators can use to reclassify their cases to harassment issues. In effect, the law enacted to give Megan justice, may make her even more vulnerable. So long as the child victim doesn't tell the predator to stop, even a harassment charge may not stick with the right circumstances and a good defender.
Every aspect of this case follows the same procedural requirement used to convict a Child Predator. A child was manipulated by an adult. A child was engaged in sexually explicit conversation (as acknowledged by Lori Drew herself). An adult imposed her will on a child by misleading her, using a profile designed to sexually or intimately attract the 13 year old Megan.
Lori then utilized the power she had gained over this child to cause significant distress and endangerment to that child. She even stipulated to many of these activities in the police report she filed shortly after Megan's death.
We can go on and on here, but the parallels between this case and many other child predator cases that are successfully prosecuted bear striking similarities.
Child Predator laws do not require much more than simply proving that an adult has engaged a minor in sexually explicit conversation. Lori Drew has already stipulated that her conversations with Megan were sometimes sexual for a child Megan's age.
City officials who continue to ignore this viable, documented admission and continue to address this issue as harassment are intentionally burying their heads in the sand, when the solution is staring them right in the face. Why?
On June 5th, 2006, Governor Matt Blunt signed into law stiff penalties for convicted sex offenders. The Vice believes that officials continually reject a child predator classification of this case in order to keep the penalty of this offense out of this harsher realm.
Opponents of this law are active in defeating this law not by changing it, but by disqualifying cases like Megan's from ever being heard.
There are several other child exploitation laws on the books. To date, none of them have even been considered by City, State and Federal officials in this case. I'm outraged that a motion was never even filed, so that the case could at least be argued before a judge or jury.
Those satisfied with this response out of Missouri officials need to think through the effect this law will truly have. It quite honestly has the potential to directly undermine Jessica's law. It quiet easily gives prosecutors a way out of prosecuting child endangerment and child predator cases in the future.
But more disturbing than that are the actions of authorities: If it had been an adult MALE that "carried on" in a sexually explicit way with a 13 year old girl, even if it WERE for the purposes of revenge for his teen daughter, he'd be locked up as a pedophile.
Second, there are al-READY laws on the books that cover this type of harassment. For chrissake: just implement them!
What is particularly chilling to me, is that Lori Drew knew that the victim was known to be suicidal in the past. That means that her statement to her that the "world would be better off without you" or whatever it was... is even MORE chilling: it means she was TRYING to steer this girl to suicide. It means she had a desire to push it in that direction, and did so.
Reminds me of Charles Manson. He never "technically" put his own hands upon his victims either, but he "made it happen" by manipulating people, I mean that's the premise upon which he was convicted: that he had INCITED it.
Same thing here. Lori Drew incited this suicide and should be just as responsible as Manson was when he incited those murders---and she should also be treated just like any other adult who engages in online relationships of a sexual nature with under-aged children.
Here is where you can post messages to Lori Drew herself http://www.zabasearch.com/messages/zaba_messages_research.php?mquery=lori%20drew
if for some reason the actual direct link does not work then go directly here http://www.zabasearch.com enter Lori Drew, pick MO as the state and find her listing under her address at 269 Waterford Crystal Dr O Fallon, MO 63368-7130
to post your thoughts about the Drew Family at rotten neighbor - http://www.rottenneighbor.com/story.php?id=55926
photos of Ashly Nicole Grills the accomplice in tormenting Megan Meier whom had access to the josh myspace account too
photo collage of Ashley Nicole Grills (if one site does not work try the mirror sites) http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/2482/ashleygrills2cu7.jpg mirror sites with ashley photos: http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/3fd48ca632.jpg http://www.freeimagehost.eu/image/4c62ff1570534 http://www.imgplace.com/directory/dir3368/1196207548.jpg http://www.4freeimagehost.com/show.php?i=b08c400b8866.jpg http://www.largeimagehost.com/gallerys/untilted/rccXt.html http://www.uploadhouse.com/viewfile.php?id=813165
pics as found on her sites some have now been deleted by her http://www.myspace.com/dundundundivlayoutsss http://www.stlpunk.com/u_prof ile.asp?userID=73192 http://www.xanga.com/istalkthedead06 http://lads.myspace.com/slides/slideshow_random.swf?u=101901697
Don't forget to save this Photo Collage to your computer and upload it everywhere to craigslist,myspace,friendster, bebo and every blog you can.
In response to the request by Tina Meier on the TODAY show and again today on the Mike and Juliet show, (both NBC): can somone out there please give us the names and addresses of those in authority in MO so that we can write them as Tina has asked America to do on behalf of her beloved daughter, Megan? I am ready, willing and able to honor her request and I hope that all of America is also poised at their WORD programs to do the same. I am going to go on a letter writing campaign and I urge all of you to do the same. And, I hope that it does some good. Please post as many names/addresses as you can! Thanks bloggers! Signed, Marlene in Pennsylvania
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