Jay Bookman

By Jim D

May 16, 2008 7:19 AM | Link to this

Lori Drew is a useless pice of garbage. Some psychotic suburban housewife living through her kids. I hope it haunts her for the rest of her life. That said, is this really a crime?

By robo

May 16, 2008 7:38 AM | Link to this

How about get your kids off of the computer, put down the video game, and try some face to face personal interaction. Have an actual conversation, where persons talk. Log off of My Space and go outside for mercy sakes.

I’ll bet both of these so-called parents used technology (computer, My Space)as a babysitter, so they didn’t have to be bothered by their kids. Surely these young people had heroes named Paris, Brittany, etc… and called them “role models”, like life is some kind of theater to be acted instead of experienced.

This wouldn’t have happened if the kids were doing something worthwile.

By Dave

May 16, 2008 7:41 AM | Link to this

When I was a teenager I remember having insecurities about friends and life. For an adult to play on Megan’s fears the way Lori did should be criminal. I think part of her punishment should be 1 million hours of community service working with troubled teens.

By travis

May 16, 2008 8:10 AM | Link to this

While what happened is horrible, I don’t think that criminal charges should be filed. I am assuming that a parent would not let there kids roam in the malls or anyother “public” place, without supervision and the internet is not exception. When you allow your kids to get on the internet or social networking sites, you are giving the world access to your child. Hopefully, this will be a lesson to others…

By Steven Q. Stanley

May 16, 2008 8:20 AM | Link to this

Drugging your child out of their mind becuase you are a lazy parent should be punished as well. Hopefully the mother and father will be charged with child abuse at the very least.

By King Kong

May 16, 2008 8:32 AM | Link to this

Now, it’s a “crime” to be mean? Of course, a total wuss like Bookman, who hides under the bed when thunder rumbles, would support the almighty feds trumping up a bogus charge.

By bgaff

May 16, 2008 8:41 AM | Link to this

While I believe what Lori did was wrong and she should face some sort of charges…..Megan’s parents played a role in their childs fate. Megan’s parents acknowledge that Megan was too young to have a Myspace account and that they monitored it. Well, number one if she was too young, megan should have never had a Myspace account. Second, if they were really monitoring the account…Maybe megan would be here today. This society over the last 10-20 years has become one of the blame game. Too often everyone has to have someone or something to blame. No one wants to accept accountability. I may sound cold and harsh, but if Lori and Megan’s parents had done what responsible adults, this tragedy might not have ever happened.

By Jeff Lewis

May 16, 2008 8:44 AM | Link to this

How about you, “King Kong”, who hide behind a fake name? You’re an idiot.

By robo

May 16, 2008 8:45 AM | Link to this

Steven Q. Stanley

I totally agree. ADD/ADHD is a lucrative myth. That lie sure gives some drug makers a hefty market for snake oil and doctors get extra vacation homes. Heck, technically, me and nearly all of my friends should have been ADD/ADHD medicated. Somehow we managed to grow up to be business owners, professionals, and family men. All without ritalin, can you imagine that? Now, if a kid seems overly interested in anything, whiney parents give them a pill and park them in front of a video game. Then, little Jimmy explodes, shoots up a school. The parents say “how could it happen? We did everything we could. It’s not our fault. It’s their fault.”

By Steven Q. Stanley

May 16, 2008 8:48 AM | Link to this

It’s definitely all about the blame game. The girl’s parents drugged her up on ADD drugs instead of just making her do her homework. When the ADD meds made her depressed, they drugged her up on anti-depressants. On top of that she is 13 and running free on the internet. The parents are now divorced, my guess is becuase they know they are responsible for their daughters death and tried to blame each other.

If this woman is what is claimed it is sad, but the parents are the reason she is dead. People are going to be mean to other people. Doping your kid up to be oblivious to the real world is not a good thing.

The parents are to blame.

By Steven Q. Stanley

May 16, 2008 8:53 AM | Link to this

Definitely robo. My brother was doped out of his mind by my mom. Luckily he realized the drugs made him miserable and stopped taking them. After joining the military he realized a little discipline, not drugs, is all he needed.

Parents today want to be able to watch American Idol, not sit down with their kids and make them do their homework and studying. Its easier to drug them than to be a quality parent, side effects be damned.

By robo

May 16, 2008 9:01 AM | Link to this

Steven,

“just make her do her homework”

How would she have the time to keep up with her “role models”? You know, Brittney, Paris, Ashley, and all of the other worthless actors that fill the parent’s shoes teaching roles.

Doing homework is sooooooo boring and useless. Homework won’t make the kid popular, just smarter, and you certainly won’t learn smarter from any of the useless Hollywood “role models”. It used to be that parents were the kids role models.

By Snarky

May 16, 2008 9:06 AM | Link to this

I agree that this woman is a total waste of oxygen. How pathetic is it that a grown woman would hound a teenage girl? While using a false identity no less!

But I vehemently disagree with criminalization of this type of communication. Direct written or verbal threats - absolutely. Just being “cruel” - no. Criminalizing “cruel” is too vague and subjective. Under that statute, any one of us could be prosecuted for telling a coworker off or even laughing at someone’s comeuppance - even when they deserve it.

The consequences of her actions will most likely need to be metered out by the community vice the justice system.

By Snarky

May 16, 2008 9:10 AM | Link to this

Make that “meted” - not “metered.” Darn FireFox auto correct app.

By JeremiahWright

May 16, 2008 9:20 AM | Link to this

I’m surprised Bookman cares since the girl’s not black. Oh, but I see. The “criminal” is white.

By steve walsh

May 16, 2008 9:34 AM | Link to this

I feel there’s more to this than meets the eye. The digital age is the best thing and the worst thing that’s ever been discovered. And there’s a real limit to what young people should be exposed to. So, where was mom and dad all this tormented time??

By Jam

May 16, 2008 9:49 AM | Link to this

Mistakes happend. I am sure if the mother knew that the girl was going to killed herself, she would have not played a part in it. That is why they should remove the dam my-space and the internet. Some people have gotten killed and some people are being stalked. It seems like to me that my-space is real bad. Whatever happend to talking to people on the telephones and not using the internet. I do not think that the mother should be charged because it was a mistake. I pray and hope that the girl who lost her life made it into heaven. This should be a prime example for the youth to become true Christians.

By Times have changed

May 16, 2008 9:56 AM | Link to this

This Lori Drew is a very sick lady & what she did was wrong but not technically a crime. Sticks & stones, etc…It’s a shame this girl didn’t have thicker skin. But: There is no more freedom of speech. Back when I was a kid, children who were “different” were physically assaulted. Why was nothing ever donne about that? Maybe because they weren’t “pretty & popular” like Megan. Some of the other bloggers were absolutely right about the part the girl’s parents played in this senseless tragedy

By KatyWatts

May 16, 2008 10:00 AM | Link to this

Thank you Mr. Bookman! I couldn’t agree more. Track these low lifes down and prosecute them to the fullest extend of the law!

By Rita

May 16, 2008 10:02 AM | Link to this

I feel there’s more to this than meets the eye. The digital age is the best thing and the worst thing that’s ever been discovered. And there’s a real limit to what young people should be exposed to. So, where was mom and dad all this tormented time??

Great point steve.

I will say this. I have kids and I do everything I can to protect them. With that said we parents are trying to raise kids with technology that was not around when we were children. There is a fine line between becoming an obsessed parent hovering over every move your child makes and one that lets a kid do what they please. Both can cause these kids to be messed up teens that turn into disfunctional adults.

Someone has to be held accountable for a situation like this. What kind of adult plays mind games with a child via the Internet? Lori Drew is a sick woman and she should be the one that we hold up as the criminal.

We have to stop finding gray areas in every situation. Instances such as this should be right or wrong - and Lori Drew was clearly wrong in her role in the death of this child.

I think that is what bothers me most. A child is dead at the hands of an cruel, sick adult. Bottom line is this kind of scenario will continue to happen if we don’t put a stop to it.

None of us can say, not even myself, that our child won’t be next. We as adults should know right from wrong. We do the best we can as parents.

Lori Drew obviously is not fit to be a parent and she should be held accountable for her part in Megan Meier’s death.

By andres

May 16, 2008 10:10 AM | Link to this

“the world would be a better place without J.B.” (Jay Bookman). So if he is found dead tomorrow, can I be indicted. There is no legit criminal case here.

By It's so obvious

May 16, 2008 10:19 AM | Link to this

Lori Drew should definately be charged for harrassment but y’all seem to think she’s a murderer. No, she did not kill Megan Meier. Megan chose to end her own life because today’s kids are raised with this touchy-feely sense of entitlement & oh, God forbid anyone should have one word of critisism for them. Whatever happened to the days when kids got into fights, blew off healthy steam & were none the worse for it? I always see parents hugging, kissing & talking all sweetsy-poo to their kids. I was raised in the 70’s & my parents never hugged & kissed me. They disciplined me when needed though & I turned out just fine, thank you

By DK

May 16, 2008 11:23 AM | Link to this

Hey Rita,

The hateful garbage that you just posted is making me want to kill myself. Better pack your toothbrush cause I’m calling the law.

By DK supporter

May 16, 2008 11:36 AM | Link to this

Hey, DK, just ignore her, hon. There are always people who want to take away our freedoms & rights. It’s getting to the point where we’re living in a fascist police state where just expressing your opinion will land you in federal prison.

By Snarky

May 16, 2008 11:58 AM | Link to this

@ Jam,

I do hope that you were being sarcastic. By your reasoning, we should also do away with telephones (voice harassment), paper (written harassment), transportation (carries you to a location to harass), etc…

The internet is a tool. You’re using it right now, on this very blog, to communicate without harm.

The issue is not the medium of harassment as it is an individuals accountability for the harassment.