Monday, May 19, 2008

Mom indicted in deadly MySpace hoax

The 13 year old girl committed suicide herself after hoax of cyber-bullying, in USA.
In connection with it, a Federal Prosecutor indicted a Missouri woman for her alleged role in a deadly online hoax.
According to the indictment, she created a MySpace account in the name of someone who didn't exist and posed as a teen boy to feign romantic interest in this girl.
After received cruel message, this girl hanged herself.
Regarding this terrible tragedy, I think about the harmfulness of misuse of internet and Internet Ethics again.
A related stories are extracted as belows.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/15/internet.suicide.ap/index.html

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