MySpace Hoax Mom To Be Sentenced

LOS ANGELES (AP) - A Missouri mother is facing sentencing for
her role in a MySpace hoax directed at a 13-year-old neighbor girl
who later killed herself.
Lori Drew could get up to three years in prison if she's
sentenced in a Los Angeles courtroom Thursday after being convicted
in November on three misdemeanor counts of accessing computers
without authorization.
But a defense motion to dismiss the convictions has received a
lengthy review from U.S. District Judge George Wu, who delayed
Drew's sentencing in May to review the testimony of two prosecution
witnesses.
Drew's case has drawn much attention as the nation's first
cyberbullying trial.
Prosecutors say Drew helped create a fictitious teen boy and
sent flirtatious messages to Megan Meier on the social networking
site.

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