It’s Not Enough
….Megan’s parents had been storing a foosball table for the family that created the MySpace character. Six weeks after Megan’s death, they learned the other family had created the profile and responded by destroying the foosball table, dumping it on the neighbors’ driveway and encouraging them to move away.
But it’s a start. The parents responsible…
…“They’ve absolutely offered no apologies,” Ron Meier told TODAY co-host Matt Lauer on Monday. “They sent us a letter in the mail, basically saying that they might feel a little bit of responsibility, but they don’t feel no guilt or remorse or anything for what they did.”
…should immediately be social pariahs in town and, if there’s any justice, hounded from it by villagers with torches and pitchforks.
…Rather, said Tina Meier, the people are upset with her for going public with their story. Last week, while shopping, she ran into the woman who invented the hoax, Tina Meier said.
“She asked me to stop doing all of this,” she told Lauer. “I told her that we would not stop, that we were going to continue for justice for Megan because we knew what they did.”
Bastards. Inhuman, despicable, self-centered, monstrous bastards.
And if it had been my sweet child, I would plant myself on the sidewalk in front of their house and never move. Until they did.
UPDATE: Wow.
Humanity...or the Lack Thereof | tree hugging sister | 
November 19, 2007 1:58 pm
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I’m not sure what legal theory makes these horrible people liable for the girl’s death.
Shouldn’t her parents be more aware of what she’s doing on the computer and who her friends are? Is suicide a reasonable reaction to someone calling her names?
If you look into the article, it would seem to me that it’s as likely that her own parents were the cause of the suicide, if anyone was. They caught her using foul language on line and reprimanded her for it. I wonder which is more likely, that a boy she hasn’t met called her names and precipitated a suicide, or that the shame of being caught using bad language by her parents precipitated a suicide. It wouldn’t seem as cut and dried as the parents claim.
The whole thing is horribly tragic. A young girl’s suicide is very sad. It seems to me that portions of the media are exploiting the understandable anger of the parents to generate news items.
I don’t see any legal remedy to this case except for an outside chance with a “wrongful death” civil suit.
I must admit if the family that perpetrated this hoax were to meet their demise from a flesh-eating bacteria, I wouldn’t lose sleep over it.
Were it my daughter, I would be seriously considering murder as a remedy to this situation. Maybe a jury would buy “temporary insanity” later.
I don’t see what law could be enacted that would not severly infringe on civil rights. But I agree with Bill.
Hmmm.
@ Skyler
1. They caught her using foul language on line and reprimanded her for it. I wonder which is more likely, that a boy she hasn’t met called her names and precipitated a suicide, or that the shame of being caught using bad language by her parents precipitated a suicide.
Did you *read* the article in question?
It’s pretty obvious that being slammed by someone she trusted, i.e. “Josh”, was what precipitated her suicide.
2. There is no question that, were this my daughter, the offending family would disappear.
I would think that the humiliation that these online scumbags caused this girl was more of a factor in her suicide than her parent’s reprimand, but we’ll never know. As the parent of a 14 year old girl this whole episode really really pisses me off.
Just what complete scumbags those other people are.
I hope the adult perpetrators of this heartless hoax are shunned for the rest of their lives. However, it just drives home the point that young teenagers should not have access to MySpace, etc. I’m sorry but it’s just too dangerous. My daughter’s middle school principal tells parents every year at back to school night: “supervise your child’s internet use; keep them out of chat rooms.” It seems draconian but after this terrible incident, I see his point. Young teens don’t have the thick skin and the perspective to deal with the anonymous insults and total absence of civility that the anonymity of the internet allows and encourages.