Suicide of Megan Meier

The Megan Meier story is about a 13 year old girl that submitted a suicide 3 weeks before her 14th Birthday. It all started when a cute teenage boy named Josh sent her a friend request on Myspace. Megan asked her mother if she could accept his request, but when her mom asked if she knew the boy Megan told her that she doesn't, and so her mother then answered with a no, but after a while she allowed Megan to accept the request. Josh and Megan started talking and he told her that he had no access…

taking as seriously as it should. Whether or not students should be formally charged for bullying is a very controversial topic right now. Many people believe that bullying is one of the biggest contributors to youth suicide and studies have proved this to be true (“Bullying and Suicide”). It (bullying) also causes many other problems like depression, anxiety, sleep difficulties, and poor school adjustment (“Bullying Statistics”). It is also very debateable as to whether or not many cases of…

numerous pursuits to criminalise the act of cyber bullying itself. For example, the Megan Meier Cyberbullying Prevention Act (USA) 2009/2010, a new federal state law proposed in Missouri which aimed to implement criminal punishment of either a fine, prison time or both for perpetrators of cyber bullying (Meredith 2010). This was the result of a suicide case of a school girl named Megan Meier who committed suicide after enduring cyber bullying over a long period of time. However, this act was not…

org, over fourteen percent of high school students have considered suicide, and almost seven percent have attempted it (Bullying and Suicide). There are many forms of bullying and all of them impact young lives. One specific type of bullying is cyberbullying. Bullying is becoming an increasing problem for adolescents, who have to deal with bullying in the real world and the virtual world, and far too many times, it can lead to suicide. Bullying is a specific form of aggression, which others…

there are adults such as a parent that can be under fake accounts online to hide who they really are. The sad thing is that aren’t parents supposed to teach their kids from right and wrong. That was not the case in the 2006 cyber bully suicide of 13 year old Megan Meier (Anonymous). A lot of people have heard about this devastating story. There has been a lot of similar stories, but this one was a big one. It all started with a women named Lori Drew. In this story Lori Drew 49 years…

Megan Meier was a 13-year old Missouri teen who, having been cyber-bullied, committed suicide. She's not the only teen to have committed suicide after being bullied; children even in elementary school have attempted or committed suicide because they were bullied. Bullying is an issue for all people, not just schools and school personnel. There are three types of bullying: physical bullying, mental bullying, and cyberbullying. Bullying is a big problem Bullying is a crime already in several…

example was about a 13 year old Megan Meier, which ultimately ended up as a suicide in the year 2006. Apparently, this case is about her friend, “Josh Evans” who gave hateful words through “MySpace” that eventually drove Megan to suicide. Investigators discovered that “John Evans” was indeed a make-up fake profile, created by the parents of Megan’s former girlfriend that she initially had a fall out with. As there was no proper laws at that point of time, the Meiers did not file any lawsuit. In…

“The research of Kowalski and Limber (2007) indicated that of the 3,767 sixth-eighth graders from the southeast and northwest United States that participated in their study, 11% reported having been cyberbullied...One third of American teens were bombarded with cyberbullying” (Yang, Lin and Chen 526). This is only a tiny part of their study and from the article it becomes clearer that 11% and one-third of the Southeast and Northwestern part of the United States have been Cyberbullied. This…

texting, facebook, emailing, etc. However, sometimes these platforms provide access for those who want to cause harm to others. Cyberbullying is one of the main factors that affect students. It has a pshycological imapact that can led to depression, suicide, and social isolation. Bullyies don’t realize the negativeity of what their doing to a person online compare to being able to see the persons react when it happens. More limitations should be implemented regarding internet usage and laws…

titled, Is Cyber Bullying a Crime? Hopefully Soon, fifteen states have set laws making cyber-bullying a crime and currently there is a bill being considered in law making cyber-bullying a federal crime. As the number of cases of children who commit suicide after being attacked by cyber-bullying continues to rise, state and federal laws will need to respond to protect teens who are victimized by teasing, humiliating comments, embarrassment and prejudice often leading to depression and…