Did you hear about the Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyber bullying case was convicted of misdemeanor computer charges instead of felonies in a cruel Internet hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide? The federal jury couldn’t reach a verdict on the conspiracy allegation against 49-year-old Lori Drew and rejected three other felony counts of accessing computers without authorization to inflict emotional harm on the girl.
Instead, the panel convicted her of three lesser offenses of just accessing computers without authorization. Each of those counts is punishable by up to one year in prison and a $100,000 fine. Drew faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the four original counts. What I don’t understand is why in the world would a 49 year old woman do such a thing? It’s bad enough that kids go through bullying in school and everywhere else with other kids but a grown woman? The whole world has gone absolutely stupid it looks like.