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Six weeks after Megan died, on a Saturday morning, a neighbor down the street, a different neighbor, one they didn't know well, called and insisted that they meet that morning at a counselor's office in northern O'Fallon.
The woman would not provide details. Ron and Tina went. Their grief counselor was there. As well as a counselor from Fort Zumwalt West Middle School.
The neighbor from down the street, a single mom with a daughter the same age as Megan, informed the Meiers that Josh Evans never existed.
She told the Meiers that Josh Evans was created by adults, a family on their block. These adults, she told the Meiers, were the parents of Megan's former girlfriend, the one with whom she had a falling out. These were the people who'd asked the Meiers to store their foosball table.
The single mother, for this story, requested that her name not be used. She said her daughter, who had carpooled with the family that was involved in creating the phony MySpace account, had the password to the Josh Evans account and had sent one message - the one Megan received (and later retrieved off the hard drive) the night before she took her life.
"She had been encouraged to join in the joke," the single mother said.
The single mother said her daughter feels the guilt of not saying something sooner and for writing that message. Her daughter didn't speak out sooner because she'd known the other family for years and thought that what they were doing must be OK because, after all, they were trusted adults.
On the night the ambulance came for Megan, the single mother said, before it left the Meiers' house her daughter received a call. It was the woman behind the creation of the Josh Evans account. She had called to tell the girl that something had happened to Megan and advised the girl not to mention the MySpace account.
Yes, you read that right. A couple of adults created a fake MySpace profile and used it to bully an already troubled 13-year-old girl to the point where she killed herself.
11-15-2007, 12:23 PM
Read this about 10 hours ago and I'm still enraged Post #2
Read the whole of that heartbreaking article. Anger welled when I read this bit
Quote:
"According to (her) 'somehow' other 'my space' users were able to access the fake male profile and Megan found out she had been duped. (She) stated she knew 'arguments' had broken out between Megan and others on 'my space.' (She) felt this incident contributed to Megan's suicide, but she did not feel 'as guilty' because at the funeral she found out 'Megan had tried to commit suicide before.
Really is such a tragic story. I really wish there were a law which would find the couple responsible for this guilty of criminal activity.
11-15-2007, 12:39 PM
Read this about 10 hours ago and I'm still enraged Post #5
Originally posted by jhype:
Read the whole of that heartbreaking article. Anger welled when I read this bit <BLOCKQUOTE> "According to (her) 'somehow' other 'my space' users were able to access the fake male profile and Megan found out she had been duped. (She) stated she knew 'arguments' had broken out between Megan and others on 'my space.' (She) felt this incident contributed to Megan's suicide, but she did not feel 'as guilty' because at the funeral she found out 'Megan had tried to commit suicide before.
Really is such a tragic story. I really wish there were a law which would find the couple responsible for this guilty of criminal activity. </BLOCKQUOTE>
Apparently a few blogs have already used the clues in the story to figure out who the main parents were. Including address and phone number.
Fair to say they may be more hated than Osama now.
11-15-2007, 12:41 PM
Read this about 10 hours ago and I'm still enraged Post #6
Sad story, but she sounds like a complete emotional wreck who would have probably killed herself before hitting 18 anyway.
Don't think you can really 'blame' those people for her death, even though what they did was despicable. Most kids go through similar crap in school playground tbh.
11-15-2007, 12:43 PM
Read this about 10 hours ago and I'm still enraged Post #7
Originally posted by jhype:
Did I read correctly when the article said the family responsible were claiming damages from Megans parents for the fussball table?
Yes.
11-15-2007, 12:47 PM
Read this about 10 hours ago and I'm still enraged Post #10
Fair play to them for having the stones to be so condescending to the parents of their victim.
Yes, for once, I find this story fairly awful. msteuk I don't think you can ever say that someone would have killed themselves before a certain age. Things change so quickly when you're a child.
Read this about 10 hours ago and I'm still enraged 
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