The video for this story is not available, but you can still read the transcript below.
No image

MySpace-related Suicide Puts Focus on Cyber Bullying

A Missouri woman was indicted on federal charges related to the suicide of a 13-year-old MySpace user this week. An Internet and privacy lawyer considers the world of cyber bullying and how the law and the use of the Web intersect.

Read the Full Transcript

Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors.

JUDY WOODRUFF:

Finally tonight, a Media Unit look at a case of online bullying. And once again to Jeffrey Brown.

TINA MEIER, Mother of Megan Meier: She deserves the life sentence that our family has been given, and 20 years is unfortunately not enough for her.

JEFFREY BROWN:

That was the reaction of Tina Meier to news that a Missouri neighbor had been indicted in Los Angeles for cyber-bullying Meyer's daughter, Megan.

Megan hanged herself in 2006 after receiving an online message on her MySpace page, supposedly from a boy named Josh Evans, that, quote, "the world would be better off without her."

Investigators say "Josh" was really Lori Drew, the mother of a classmate and former friend of Megan's.

Drew, who has denied any involvement, now faces charges of conspiracy and computer fraud.

And with me to look at this case and the state of cyber law in this area is Christopher Wolf, an Internet and privacy attorney in private practice. He also chairs the International Network Against Cyberhate, a group based in Amsterdam that works against discrimination on the Internet.

Welcome to you.

CHRISTOPHER WOLF, Internet and Privacy Lawyer: Thank you, Jeff.