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SlappySquirrel
01/02/09

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I wish I trusted prosecutors.

I would LOVE to be able to say "Well, Al Capone got sent to prison for a nice long time for tax evasion, but the average tax evader just pays a fine. But that's cool because everybody knew what we were really sending Al Capone to prison for, we just couldn't prove it."

The problem is that I can't even type out that logic without physically recoiling. Because there are just too many crazy prosecutors in this world.

A government of laws and not of men, kids. That's the way it has to be.
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PilotViolet
01/02/09

@SlappySquirrel: For rls, prosecutors be trippin. The pro-prosecution bent on these threads (and in, like, the world) always makes me a bit uncomfy. Yes, Lori Drew is like the most heinous human ever, but seriously, prison is no joke, and I'm almost never for making it _easier_ to imprison folks. The symbolic satisfaction it provides is transient and not worth it.
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Jack_Burton
01/02/09

@PilotViolet: I'm with you... There's plenty of legal weight to smack this woman with, yet now there's new laws being proffered up as the solution.

If I were a judge, part of the sentence I'd impose is to make both women do community service hours on a suicide hotline.
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Brigit
01/02/09

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These people are the reason social shunning was invented, Now with a cyber-shunning/shaming upgrade!
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PilgrimSoul
01/02/09

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Man, this is a very confused jury. First they say they can't find a crime or a tort (like IIED) going on here such that she would have gotten the higher sentence, and they couldn't come to a verdict conspiracy either? (That's probably what led the prosecutor to drop the charge.) If she did the underlying crime, and other people were clearly involved, conspiracy should be a no-brainer.
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ihateyourescalade
01/02/09

@PilgrimSoul: I think the problem is that the justice system isn't set up to deal with Internet cases like this one. That will probably change eventually.
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Maritsa
01/02/09

@PilgrimSoul: Right? If there was EVER a clear-cut instance of IIED, this is it.
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bluebears
01/02/09

@PilgrimSoul: I really don't understand that either. All I can say is that the prosecution must have been a complicated mess.
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PilgrimSoul
01/02/09

@bluebears: I mean, it puts her pretty open for an appeal, if only to clarify the "who needs to click on the 'I agree' button for the conduct to fall under the statute."
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bluebears
01/02/09

@PilgrimSoul: totally. the whole case has been pretty interesting, I wonder if this will actually cause new laws to be written or if the case will just be forgotten as an anomaly.
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RoseColette (fewer thorns; more coffee)
01/02/09

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Lori Drew can win in the courts but she'll never win the internets. That is one woman whose name will live on in the Asshat of the Year awards.
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LaFemme
01/02/09

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"The Post-Dispatch said federal guidelines could result in Drew receiving probation on the conviction, which holds a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a $300,000 fine."

I am fine with this. As sick as this woman is, I think this punishment sounds reasonable. I don't want internet harassment to become a felony charge and grouped in with murder and rape, no matter 5the result of the harassment. The woman will spend 3 years in jail and probably a decacde paying off this money, in addition to being forever known as a twisted individual in whatever community she later moves into. That is pretty terrible already.
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PilgrimSoul
01/02/09

@LaFemme: Wait for it - we haven't gotten to sentencing yet and the jury may take pity on her, they're so frickin confused.
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LaFemme
01/02/09

@PilgrimSoul: Oh yeah, read this as having already happened. Well I hope this is what they do decide in sentencing.
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Fridge Hussy : Is finally heading back to uni!
01/02/09

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Why would a person harass anyone - let alone a child - like that in the first place?
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Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
01/02/09

@Perla: Some of these adults never see themselves as such. I teach and I see parents all the time who are more concerned with being their kids 'friend' rather than parenting. They do everything they can to be the "cool parent" and have the house where all the kids hang out.

The sad thing is most of these 'adults' don't really have many friends their own age. Since I live in a small town this is REALLY easy to spot. They live their entire social lives through their children and their children's friends. These people are more influenced by their children than their children are influenced by them.

A situation like this could never, ever turn out well on any level.
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TheUptightMidwesterner
01/02/09

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This might be my incentive to finally chase down my dream of creating custom made voodoo dolls for a living.
I could offer a Lori Drew special and start sending those suckers out.
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Steve_Holt
01/02/09

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I think it may be time for a little Jezzie Justice!
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So Irish
01/02/09

@Steve_Holt: Jezulators, MOUNT UP!
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ihateyourescalade
01/02/09

@Steve_Holt: No, don't foment this sort of thing. I am no fan of Lori Drew. But an Internet lynch mob is not justice.
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NefariousNewt
01/02/09

@Steve_Holt: @So Irish: Given how I and many Jezebel commenters have excoriated Lori Drew over the last year or more, I think she'll find no solace in the felony charges being dropped.

That said, this is pretty crappy news.
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hortense
01/02/09

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And yet the Karma Police haven't dropped any charges.
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ihateyourescalade
01/02/09

@hortense: You're not allowed to have COTD, are you?
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NefariousNewt
01/02/09

@hortense: While Earthly law may be lacking, I think the universe will even the score with her at some point.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
01/02/09

@hortense: Karma police, arrest this girl.
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ihateyourescalade
01/02/09

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I think three years in jail, a $300 fine, and then having to return to Waterford Crystal Lane in Dardenne Prairie, Missouri, is a pretty nasty punishment.
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BuffySummers
01/02/09

@ihateyourescalade: Ugh, this is just disheartening. Glad to see she is at least getting some jail time though. Think she'll be allowed back on any social networking sites? Not sure how easily they can keep people off, but they should at least try.
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ihateyourescalade
01/02/09

@BuffySummers: I bet she's banned from Facebook now--they brought charges against her.
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SlappySquirrel
01/02/09

@ihateyourescalade: Can't argue with that.

The name "Waterford Crystal Lane" alone gives me the icks. You know the next street over is "Gucci Purse Place."
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Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
01/02/09

@ihateyourescalade: I had read somewhere that they had to sell and move.

Can't imagine why.
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Maritsa
01/02/09

@SlappySquirrel: Are those streets in Label Whore Estates?
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ClockOnTheStove
01/02/09

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There will be punishment for her. She is going to be in a living hell for the rest of her life. So be it.
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BiteMeMitchell!
01/02/09

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So, basically she's getting away with this?
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SlappySquirrel
01/02/09

@Anointynointy: In a legal sense, yes.

But I wouldn't want to live the rest of her life.
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Maritsa
01/02/09

@Anointynointy: Her conviction on the other charges still stands; hopefully the judge will throw the book at her. Still getting off way too easy, but there will be some punishmnt (in addition to the punishment of having to be Lori Drew the rest of her life).
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BabyJane
01/02/09

@SlappySquirrel: I feel guilty if I get snippy with someone, so I can't imagine having to live with her conscience. How does someone like that even sleep at night?
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Gretchen is a new kitten mom!
01/02/09

@Anointynointy: She'll probably get the max for her conviction. And there always is the civil suit that's soon to follow, which I imagine will be an immediate win for that poor girl's family. I doubt they'll get anything out of it, though, because I've read the Drew family has pretty much liquidated everything they had already.

Not that cash could ever ease that kind of pain for a parent.
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bluebears
01/02/09

@Neely O'Hara (BabyJane was so 2008): psychopathy.
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