Monday, November 19th, 2007(The Weekly Vice) - A little over a year ago, a 13 year old girl named Megan met a boy named Josh Evens through her MySpace page. Megan was was on overweight teen who struggled with her self esteem. So much so that she was depressed and was prescribed medication. But that seemed to subside more and more since Megan met Josh. She was happy to have finally met a hot boy who took considerable interest in her.
Josh spent 6 weeks talking to Megan. He was verbally affectionate with her and made her feel special. He worked hard to gain her confidence through one conversation after another. He considered Megan his girlfriend. With this new found bond, he got Megan talking, sharing her most intimate feelings and thoughts. "She was the happiest she had ever been in her life" according to her father, Ron Meier.
On October 15th, 2006 Josh's story took an abrupt turn for the worst. Suddenly his warm, caring disposition turned cold. "I don't know if I want to be friends with you anymore because I've heard that you are not very nice to your friends."
Puzzled and confused, Megan emailed back, desperately trying to find out what her sweet Josh was talking about.
On October 16th, 2006, Josh dropped the hammer that crushed the 13 year old Megan. He told her that "Everybody in O'Fallon knows how you are. You are a bad person and everybody hates you. Have a shitty rest of your life. The world would be a better place without you!"
Megan then began to see messages from other individuals, people she didn't even know, firing insults at her and to others about her. She frantically tried to find a reason behind them, but none was forthcoming. "Megan Meir is a slut. Megan Meier is FAT!" filled the bulletins Josh knew Megan frequented.
The overload proved to be too much. Megan's whole world was crashing down around her including a life she had spend months and months building. Everything good that was happening to Megan suddenly turned sharply against her.
Megan heeded the last advice she received from Josh. While her mother prepared dinner downstairs, Megan hung herself with a belt in her bedroom closet. Although a neighborhood boy next door was summoned to help revive her, Megan died in her parents arms the next day.
THE WORST WAS YET TO COME
Megan's parents, Tina and Ron Meier were devastated by the loss of their daughter Megan. However the grief was magnified when they learned that Josh never even existed. The boy who spend weeks and weeks luring their daughter to her death never existed. The entire set up was constructed by someone far more familiar.
It wasn't a just a school kid prank. It wasn't just a case of teen angst.
It was a trusted adult who played this cruel hoax. An adult the family knew well.
Megan had formed an on again/off again relationship with a neighborhood girl. When Megan decided to cool the friendship for awhile, that is when the friend's Mother, Lori Drew took matters into her own hands.
Ms. Drew fabricated the profile of the boy who would later befriend Megan, lure her in, entice her, groom her for a relationship and then deliver the crushing blow.
Ms. Drew was the architect that stalked, baited and then hooked Megan into a full blown relationship.
It was Ms. Drew who employed the help of others to join in the scheme. She even convinced an employee of her business to assist in the facade in order to keep the pressure on.
When the Meier family learned of the identify of their daughter's stalker, they destroyed a foosball table they had been storing for the Drews.
Instead of compassion, remorse or shame, Ms. Drew filed charges against the grieving Meier family for breaking the table.
Incredible.
AFTERMATH
A year has passed and this story is just coming to light. Major news outlets have just recently picked up on this story. Although the story was initially reported by Steve Pokin of the St. Charles Journal , the story has largely been suppressed by the authorities and attorneys in the case. Only recently have the perpetrators of this heinous act been outed. Not by news outlets, but by bloggers across the world who tracked down the name, address and finally the police report of the adult that masterminded the entire scheme.
Major news outlets have still been slow to "name names" in this case in consideration of Ms. Drew's daughter, however the news has already hit the proverbial fan. The neighborhood knows. The world now knows.
Danny ViceGrip has a belief that no adult who seduces a child to her death through sexual and intimate manipulation is due anonymity. While we are slow to get into more specifics of the Drew's location, we will not prohibit others from discussing the information because it is part of the public record. That anonymity is gone anyway - and it's best to assure that the focus remains on Ms. Drew herself.
There is no factual reporting or information I have found that directly ties the husband or the Drew's child(ren) to this act of horrific revenge on the 13 year old victim, Megan.
TOUGHER WORDS
Well okay. Time to call it as I see it.
I'm pissed, and for good reason. An adult child predator named Ms. Drew has gotten away with the perfect crime in my opinion.
Ms. Drew utilized the same MOA used by many Child Predators to seduce a 13 year old child to her doom.
Ms. Drew stalked, enticed, manipulated and lured her victim Megan into intimately male/female conversations. She went on to form a heated relationship with this child, posing as another child. She groomed the 13 year old victim for weeks and weeks as most any other online predator does.
Ms. Drew then diverted her child predator tactics in a dangerous direction. Drew was fully aware of Megan's bout with depression. Ms. Drew knew Megan was on medication and suffered from depression. Ms. Drew used the weaknesses of this child against her, knowing full well the full force that would be brought to bear on the child.
Ms. Drew played directly on the sensitivities she knew would cause maximum damage to the child. Ms. Drew lured the child in a way she knew would be most devastating to the child.
When Ms. Drew saw her bullets were hitting it's mark, she turned up the heat. She invited others to partake in the sick, twisted mental assault on this child, keeping the pressure up for weeks and weeks.
Ms. Drew then delivered the final blow that any depressed girl would crumble under.
She mentally raped the child and left her for dead.
Ms. Drew remains smug and defiant about her actions - even seeks to attack this grieving family while their beloved daughter's memory is fresh in their mind.
Ms. Drew has committed the unthinkable.... and doesn't even acknowledge she abused this child.
Child Predators go to jail for their actions. Physical contact is not required for a conviction. Evidence of any kind of sexually charged grooming of a child by an adult is worthy of a charge of indecent liberties with a child.... or at the very least harassment.
IT'S YOUR TURN
It's now your turn to turn the ViceGrip a notch. What do you think is just here?
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What is wrong with adults like this? I woke up this morning thinking about this poor girl. It's truly sad.
This made news in Germany. Good God what a sick woman that was.
Adults like this should not have children. Period. I hope the pressure get's turned up high on the Drews
I'm glad there are people who are keeping such a horrendous event alive, and I hope this pressure will rsult in Ms. Drew being brought to justice.
It's incredible that the local authorities couldn't find a reason to prosecute this woman. My heart goes out to the Meiers. I hope they find closure in bringing Ms. Drew to face the courts.
http://theshoatstatements.blogspot.com/2007/11/license-to-parent.html
I hope and pray there will be justice for Megan Meiers. I saw Tina Meiers on the news this week, and she said she ran into Lori Drew earlier this week and Lori asked her to stop talking about this. Lori told her she wouldn't stop. I'm sure that's exactly how Megan felt when Lori and company began taunting, belittling, and bullying her. I'm sure that's how Megan's parents felt too, when it started.
There's a scripture in the Bible that says, "There is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, or hidden that will not be made known. What I tell you in the dark, speak in the daylight; what is whispered in your ear, proclaim from the housetops." Matthew 10:26-27
Since this story broke, I've thought about that verse. When Lori started this campaign against Megan in secret, she had no idea her actions would be brought out in the open and the entire world would know how she sat in the comfort and privacy of her home, conspiring to inflict pain and suffering on a thirteen year old girl who was already in counseling because she was emotionally unstable. It appears there is some poetic justice in this.
I hope there will be justice served in the courts, as well, and the Meiers need to be persuaded to bring a Civil Action case against the Drews. They need to show the world that when an adult bullies a child to her death, they will be held accountable financially, if not any other way. They need to be sued for everything they have, and ever will have.
I'm not sure how to edit my post, but in the first paragraph of my post,I meant to type "Tina told Lori" she wouldn't stop.:)
Your posts on other sites, and this website, now that I see it, are the reasons I have chosen to post under the name Dan Fan. You are spot-on.
THANK You for your efforts.
St. Charles County reviewing the case? I don't think so. If they were some of the key figures in the story would have heard from Mr. Banas by now. For the record - none of us have heard from him. Mr. Banas intends on doing nothing with this. Shame!
Yes, I've heard that the prosectors office is floating a trial balloon of coming to the same conclusion to get an idea of what kind of reation would result. I've not seen a particular quote to this effect, so I'm publishing the last quote received that stated the county prosecutor would take a look.
I think this is also why the case is still open, so no official has to officially re-open it and come to an official conclusion.
What irks me most is that officials won't even try to run the case through.
A judge and jury can't deliberate on the merits until local or federal issues file a motion.
In effect, the prosecutors office becomes both judge and jury.
What about Megan's due process?
Thank you Dan Fan. Although I normally hate trolling... In Megan's case, I'm making a serious exception.
Curt D. & Lori J. Drew
269 Waterford Crystal Drive
Dardenne Prairie, MO 63368
(636) 272-2670
Curt’s Cell: 314-520-8688
(Lori’s Advertising Business)
Drew Advantage
2977 Highway K Ste 200, O Fallon, MO 63368-7862
Mr. Curt Drew
Sales Associate
Coldwell Banker Gundaker
2 CROSSROADS CENTER
O’FALLON, MO 63368
Office Phone: (636)379-8500
Fax: (636)379-2144
Lori’s Cell (314) 520-7916
Online predators do this to vulnerable adults too. The fact that Lori Drew INTENTIONALLY did it to a 13 year old girl whom she KNEW had problems - is beyond SICK.
A little more on how they do it:
http://cyberpaths.blogspot.com/2006/12/symptoms-of-online-brainwashing.html
http://cyberpaths.blogspot.com/2006/12/nlp-mind-control-and-seduction.html
http://cyberpaths.blogspot.com/2007/05/coercive-tactics-of-cyberpaths.html
GREAT BLOG, BTW! We are linking to you
Internet harassment using a false identity is a federal felony under 47 USC 223,* so this should be taken to the federal level, not the county level.
Catherine L. Hanaway, United States Attorney
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John M. Bodenhausen, Assistant United States Attorney
Carrie Costantin, Assistant United States Attorney
Coordinators, Cybercrime Task Force
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Thomas Eagleton U.S. Courthouse
111 S. 10th Street, 20th Floor
St. Louis, MO 63102
Phone: 314-539-2200
Fax: 314-539-2309
Website: http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/moe/cybercrime.html
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* Excerpt: "Whoever...utilizes any device or software that can be used to originate telecommunications or other types of communications that are transmitted, in whole or in part, by the Internet... without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person... who receives the communications... shall be fined under title 18 or imprisoned not more than two years, or both."
i read the temp employee was a male.was he overage? did he discuss anything sexual in nature with 13 yr old? did lori enable an of age male to sexually harass a 13 yr girl? should be some charges there if so
I read the temp was a male.i understand some of the myspace chat was sexual in nature.did the temp,an of age male chat about things sexual in nature to an underage 13 yr old girl?did lori get him to help with that?did lori encourage an of age male to help sexually stalk megan?sounds like it.easy case if so.
I read the temp was a male.i understand some of the myspace chat was sexual in nature.did the temp,an of age male chat about things sexual in nature to an underage 13 yr old girl?did lori get him to help with that?did lori encourage an of age male to help sexually stalk megan?sounds like it.easy case if so.
i read the temp employee was a male.i understand the conversations got sexual .did the of age male discuss anything sexual with a 13 yr old girl?did lori encourage an adult male to sexually stalk megan?that would be an easy case if so...
What do I think is just? LORI DREW should be prosecuted as any other predator - she gained a child's trust, and harassed her right up to the moment that Megan, who I'm sure just couldn't take it anymore and killed herself. LORI DREW is responsible.
LORI DREW wants everyone to stop talking about this?? Unbelievable! I hope this drives HER into her grave where she deserves to be. Maybe then LORI DREW's daughter will have a chance at a normal life.
I think everyone should continue to call and write to LORI DREW and CURT DREWS businesses and homes until they tuck their tails between their legs and get out of this neighborhood so the Meiers' can heal, finally! If there isn't going to be real justice that ends with LORI DREW in jail and registered on the sex offender website (weren't some of the conversations of a sexual nature, with a 13 year old?!) then let's shame them into going away!
on datelines show: to catch a predator,they arrested gay men for soliciting underage boys.should be a similar law for gay women that may apply. lori asked the meiers to "just get over it".unbelievable.get over the loss of a loved one.its not that easy and people NEVER do "get over it".time doesn't lessen the pain.my heart goes out to the meiers.so so sorry for your loss.
This is Megan's mom, Tina Meier, and I wanted to update everyone on the details for the candlelight vigil for Saturday, November 24, 2007.
*We are meeting at 6:00 p.m. at the Fort Zumwalt West Middle school parking lot.
*Please bring a candle, cup to hold the candle and something to light the candle. (If you cut a small X in the bottom of the cup, you can slide the candle through it and then you won't have wax dripping on you)
*We will then light the candle's shortly after 6:00 p.m. and start walking from the school down Waterford crystal drive towards Megan's house and end up in front of the Drew's house.
*There is a common ground area across the street and we will have pa system and microphone. if anyone would like to speak, read a poem, etc., they are more than welcome.
*This wonderful idea came from students who wanted to see justice for Megan and for that we are so happy. Nothing we can do will bring Megan back, but we can all learn from Megan and take a part of her with us everyday for the rest of our lives to try to be a better person and think about things we say to people before we say them!
*****Remember this is a peaceful candlelight vigil******
We hope to see everyone there!
The woman is a child predator, plain and simple. She should be prosecuted as such. I hope she goes to prison, where the other inmates make sure she understands what it is to be bullied and preyed upon, and I hope the family of the victim sue the family of the perpetrator and bankrupt them so badly they never recover. So be it.
I found your words articulate and sensible Vice. I really hope they do wind up orsecuting her and running her out of business.
Thank you "little feats" and others who have commented.
I do want to add a note of restraint to this board.
I'd like to recommend to readers who are out contacting these businesses to do so with great care and restraint.
While these businesses have a right to be informed of the kind of ethics employed by the Drew business, please be polite and considerate of the innocent business owners who are learning about this story just like we are.
If a business chooses to remain with Drew Advantage, The Vice begs for patience.
It's difficult for any business to change it's advertising strategy overnight. I know first hand that the many of the businesses who are using Drew Advantage rely heavily on the type of advertising she offers.
Let's give them some room and some time to figure out the best possible plan of action.
Many business would love to jump ship and advertise elsewhere... but changing up an advertising plan takes time and research. Let's support these businesses and give them the latitude to do so.
I believe the justice was brought as soon as she hanged herself: She removed herself from the genepool.
If you are going to engage in conversations with strangers: take none of what they say at value: To do so is foolish and stupid.
Moral of the story: Don't talk to strangers, oh and you need to be 14 to sign up to MySpace... ahem... PARENTING PEOPLE, USE IT!!
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