In Memory of Megan Meier
Megan Meier
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Rest In Peace Megan! The World Won't 4get Ur Pain & We Won't Let Those Responsible 4get Either!
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17 years old
Dardenne Prairie, Missouri
United States
Last Login: 6/13/2009
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| General | Megan liked swimming, boating, fishing, rap music and boys. She played volleyball in school. | | Music | | | Books |
Girly Myspace Layouts by MyCuteLyts.com | | Heroes | The night Megan Meier took her life her parents tried desperately to save her, but so did a young man down the street.
"I was eating dinner and there was a knock at the door," remembers Blaine Buckles. "It was Megan's sister. She was screaming, 'My mom needs you, my mom needs you. Megan's not breathing.'"
The girl he'd known since birth was close to death and Blaine knew how to save her.
"I was a lifeguard for three years, so I knew what to do," he says.
He grabbed some lifeguard gear and ran to Megan's home.
"My adrenaline was rushing so much, my heart was pounding, I just didn't have time to think, I mean I just had to do it," he says.
He did CPR until paramedics came. When they rushed Megan to the hospital, her heart was beating. Blaine did breathe some life back into her, and it drained the life out of him.
"I just collapsed. I was crying," he recalls. "I mean for hours afterwards, my whole body was shaking. I didn't know what to do, I didn't know who to go to. I was just lost."
One day later, in the hospital, in her parents' arms, Megan died.
One month later, Blaine found out what provoked Megan's suicide. She received mean messages on MySpace, some from her online boyfriend. One said 'the world would be better off without you'. But that boyfriend was not real! Megan's family says it was a mom down the street posing as a teenage boy to see if Megan would gossip about her daughter. That mom admitted she did it, in a police report.
"There's some mean people out there," Blaine says.
Megan's suicide was 13 months ago. The revelation about the neighbor's involvement came 12 months ago. Everyone kept quiet, hoping police would build a case. Now that there is no case, no charges against that neighbor, Megan's parents and Blaine want people to see how wicked words can be.
"Words hurt," Blaine says. "I've said some pretty mean things online just typing. I never realized how mean it was. Now there's no way I would do that. I would call people out if they said something like that."
"Megan obviously didn't know this many lives would be touched and affected by her decision, but definitely a lot of lives have been touched, a lot more than I thought would be."
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| Status: | Single | | Here for: | Friends | | Orientation: | Straight | | Hometown: | Dardenne Prairie | | Body type: | Average | | Ethnicity: | White / Caucasian | | Zodiac Sign: | Scorpio | | Occupation: | Angel |
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DARDENNE PRAIRIE, Missouri (AP) -- Megan Meier,a 13-year-old who suffered from depression and attention deficit disorder thought she had made a new friend in cyberspace when a cute teenage boy named Josh contacted her on MySpace and began exchanging messages with her.
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Megan corresponded with Josh for more than a month before he abruptly ended their friendship, telling her he had heard she was cruel.
The next day Megan committed suicide. Her family learned later that Josh never actually existed; he was created by members of a neighborhood family that included a former friend of Megan's.
Now Megan's parents hope the people who made the fraudulent profile on the social networking web site will be prosecuted, and they are seeking legal changes to safeguard children on the Internet.
The girl's mother, Tina Meier, said she doesn't think anyone involved intended for her daughter to kill herself.
"But when adults are involved and continue to screw with a 13-year-old, with or without mental problems, it is absolutely vile," she told the Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis, which first reported on the case.
Tina Meier said law enforcement officials told her the case did not fit into any law. But sheriff's officials have not closed the case and pledged to consider new evidence if it emerges.
Megan Meier hanged herself in her bedroom on October 16, 2006, and died the next day. She was described as a "bubbly, goofy" girl who loved spending time with her friends, watching movies and fishing with her dad.
Megan had been on medication, but had been upbeat before her death, her mother said, after striking up a relationship on MySpace with Josh Evans about six weeks before her death.
Josh told her he was born in Florida and had recently moved to the nearby community of O'Fallon. He said he was home schooled, and didn't yet have a phone number in the area to give her. Megan's parents say she swooned when she received an affectionate note from 'Josh' »
Megan's parents said she received a message from him on October 15 of last year, essentially saying he didn't want to be her friend anymore, that he had heard she wasn't nice to her friends.
The next day, as Megan's mother headed out the door to take another daughter to the orthodontist, she knew Megan was upset about Internet messages. She asked Megan to log off. Users on MySpace must be at least 14, though Megan was not when she opened her account. A MySpace spokeswoman did not return calls seeking comment.
Someone using Josh's account was sending cruel messages. Then, Megan called her mother, saying electronic bulletins were being posted about her, saying things like, "Megan Meier is a slut. Megan Meier is fat."
Megan's mother, who monitored her daughter's online communications, returned home and said she was shocked at the vulgar language her own daughter was sending. She told her daughter how upset she was about it.
Megan ran upstairs, and her father, Ron, tried to tell her everything would be fine. About 20 minutes later, she was found hanging in her bedroom. She died the next day.
Her father said he found a message the next day from Josh, which he said law enforcement authorities have not been able to retrieve. It told the girl she was a bad person and the world would be better without her, he has said.
Another parent, who learned of the MySpace account from her own daughter who had access to the Josh profile, told Megan's parents about the hoax in a counselor's office about six weeks after Megan died. That's when they learned Josh was imaginary, they said.
The woman who created the fake profile has not been charged with a crime. She allegedly told the St. Charles County Sheriff's Department she created Josh's profile because she wanted to gain Megan's confidence to know what Megan was saying about her own child online.
The mother from down the street told police that she, her daughter and another person all typed and monitored the communication between the fictitious boy and Megan.
A person who answered the door at the family's house told an Associated Press reporter on Friday afternoon that they had been advised not to comment.
Megan's parents had been storing a foosball table for the family that created the MySpace character. Six weeks after Megan's death, they learned the other family had created the profile and responded by destroying the foosball table, dumping it on the neighbors' driveway and encouraging them to move away.
Megan's parents are now separated and plan to divorce.
Aldermen in Dardenne Prairie, a community of about 7,000 residents about 35 miles from St. Louis, have proposed a new ordinance related to child endangerment and Internet harassment. It could come before city leaders on Wednesday.
"Is this enough?" Mayor Pam Fogarty said Friday. "No, not by any stretch of the imagination, but it's something, and you have to start somewhere."
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