Parents of MySpace Hoax Victim Megan Meier Seek Legal Recourse

Parents of MySpace hoax victim, Megan Meier, are seeking legal recourse to redress their grievance against the parents who created the online persona "Josh" who they claim lured their 13-year-old daughter into an online relationship then began mentally abusing her. They claim this taunting led to their daughter's suicide.

The FBI investigated this case at length, but they could find no law that was technically broken, so the parents are looking into other legal avenues. One possibility is a recent federal law against cyber harassment.

While better parenting on the part of Megan's mother and father might have prevented this online relationship from even taking root, there is no excuse for the former neighborhood adult friends of the mother to use the daughter as a tool to get back at the parents. No excuse.

There is nothing in a just and moral world that could possibly justify what "Josh"'s creators did online. I hope they get what's coming to them in the next life or the next.