The Associated Press: Dead teen's mom testifies in cyberbullying trial
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tina Meier often sat with her daughter while she was online to ensure nothing fishy was happening. Lori Drew wanted to find out what kind of nasty rumors were being spread about her daughter.
But as her trial opened Wednesday, Drew watched as Meier recounted from the witness stand how her 13-year-old daughter, Megan, committed suicide in 2006 after receiving cruel messages from a boy whose identity was later revealed to be an Internet hoax.
Drew, 49, is accused of conspiring with her then 13-year-old daughter, Sarah, and Drew's then 18-year-old assistant, Ashley Grills, to create a fictitious identity on MySpace to find out what was being said about Sarah...
"The last words she said to me were `You are supposed to be my mom, you are supposed to be on my side,'" Meier said, trying to hold back tears.
Meier said she later ran upstairs and found Megan hanging in the closet with a belt around her neck. She died the next day.
In his opening statement, U.S. Attorney Thomas O'Brien disclosed for the first time what Megan wrote after allegedly receiving the message that said the world would be better off without her.
"`You are the kind of boy a girl would kill herself over,'" O'Brien said of Megan's response. .
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