Dardenne Prairie town officials Wednesday night informed the Meier family, who lost a daughter to suicide last year that they will pass a law to make cyberspace harassment a crime in Dardenne Prairie. Officials will attempt to convince the state Legislature to address the problem.

The new law is a result of the story of Megan Meier, a 13-year-old girl who killed herself Oct. 17, 2006. Megan killed herself after a boy named Josh Evans had befriended her on MySpace, and suddenly was mean to her.

Six weeks after Megan's death, parents Ron and Tina Meier found out that Josh Evans never existed and was created by a neighbor. The neighbor's daughter had been a friend of Megan's but the girls had a falling out.

The woman who made the fake MySpace page called police and filed a police report Nov. 25, 2006, after the Meiers destroyed a foosball table they had been storing in their garage for the family down the street. The Meiers destroyed it on the day they learned the neighbor had created the phony Josh Evans account that drove Megan to suicide.

In that police report, the neighbor told a deputy she created the MySpace page to see what Megan was saying about her daughter.

Megan had been battling depression and the neighbor who created the fake page knew about it.