MySpace Suicide Case
I guess that's understandable shorthand, but as I've said, the methods used are far less material to me than this fact: (Alleged) adult (alleged) human beings had nothing better to do with their time than to bully a 13-year-old girl they knew had been in treatment for depression.
Lori Drew was indicted this morning in Los Angeles on federal charges for fraudulently using an account on MySpace. The indictment charges Drew in four counts -- one count for conspiracy and three counts "for accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information to inflict emotional distress," according to a press release. The latter charge relates to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
If convicted on all four counts, Drew could face up to 20 years in federal prison.
In a word: Good. What this woman did was a real offense against society, and for society not to charge her for it would be an offense against justice. It's at times like this that we want society, in the form of our criminal law system, to step in; taking at least a few steps to balancing the scales.
So we don't have to do it ourselves.
We're a nation of laws, not of men, as they say, and this is why we have them.
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