online romance

A Missouri woman indicted on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on MySpace and posing as a teenage boy pled not guilty on Thursday. Lori Drew's alleged shenanigans led to the suicide of 13-year-old Megan Meier. Megan killed herself after the "boy" who feigned romantic interest in Meier later spurned her and told her, among other things, that the world would be a better place without her.

On Thursday, a Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on MySpace. The woman posed as a teenage boy who feigned romantic interest in a 13-year-old girl, Megan Meier, who later committed suicide after the "boy" spurned her and told her, among other things, that the world would be a better place without her.