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\u00a0 Internet hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide?\u00a0 The federal jury couldn’t reach a verdict on the\u00a0 conspiracy allegation against 49-year-old Lori Drew and rejected three other\u00a0 felony counts of accessing computers without authorization to inflict emotional\u00a0 harm on the girl.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0 Drew faced up to 20 years in prison if convicted of the four original counts.\u00a0\u00a0 What I don’t understand is why in the world would a 49 year old woman do such a thing?\u00a0 It’s bad enough that kids go through bullying in school and everywhere else with other kids but a grown woman?\u00a0 The whole world has gone absolutely stupid it looks like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\u00a0 Internet hoax played on a 13-year-old girl who later committed suicide?\u00a0 The federal jury couldn’t reach a verdict on the\u00a0 conspiracy allegation against 49-year-old Lori Drew and rejected … <\/p>\n