Megan struggled with attention deficit disorder and depression in addition to issues with her weight.
Oh! I am soo ugly. I don't even have any friends. I am alone.
About five weeks before her death, a 16-year-old boy named Josh Evans asked Megan to be friends on the social networking website MySpace. They never met in person or spoke on the phone.
MySpace
Josh Evans: HI!!!
She finally had a boy who thought she was really pretty and was friendly with her.
MySpace
He thinks I am Beautiful!!??
In mid-October, Josh began saying he didn’t want to be friends anymore, and the messages became more cruel . October 16, 2006, when Josh concluded by telling Megan, “The world would be a better place without you.”
The cyberbullying escalated when additional classmates and friends on MySpace began writing disturbing messages and bulletins.
@##*#$@
MySpace
@###
They all are the same!!!!
20 minutes after Megan went to her room after leaving the computer that the mother found, her daughter had hanged herself in her bedroom.
Federal prosecuted charged her with one count of conspiracy and three violations of the computer fraud and abuse act for accessing protected computers without authorization.
A neighbor informed Megan’s parents that Josh was not a real person. Instead, the account was created by another neighbor, Lori Drew.