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Most teenage girls are stressed. Between school, boys, hormones, parents, all the emotions being heaped on them or self-inflicted there's not much of a break. Megan was 13 who, in addition to all the things a new-teen has to cope with, was also ADHD and struggling with depression. She killed herself because the boy she'd falled in love with online turned out to be a cruel joke played on her by a former friend's Mom. One that was even a neighbor.

This Mom said she wanted only to win the girl's confidence to learn about her own daughter, but instead teamed up with a few other people to build a romance and then smash it to pieces. "Josh", the puppet boyfriend, turned on her suddenly - posting mean messages - calling her "fat" and "a slut".

Of course Megan never found out this was all a sham posted by someone she knew. She killed herself instead.

Eventually her parents found out when another girl, a schoolmate, told them about it.

The adults who did this haven't been charged with a crime because it doesn't "fit" within the existing laws.

It doesn't take much to decide if it a crime to drive a thirteen year old to her death after breaking her heart... Not to mention destroying her parents lives. They now plan to divorce. And the Mother who started it? Well she says she doesn't feel all that guilty, since Megan had tried to commit suicide once before.

Gj Lori Drew.