Mom: Web Hoax Led Girl to Kill Herself

November 17th, 2007 in Technology / Internet
Mom: Web Hoax Led Girl to Kill Herself (AP)

News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch, who owns the social networking Web site MySpace, speaks at the company's Global Energy Initiative in this May 9, 2007, file photo. The parents of Megan Meier, a Missouri teen who committed suicide, hope the people who made a fraudulent profile on MySpace will be prosecuted, and they are seeking legal changes to safeguard children on the Internet. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

(AP) -- Megan Meier thought she had made a new friend in cyberspace when a cute teenage boy named Josh contacted her on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her.

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