Federal prosecutors defended their use of a cyber crime statute in the case of a Missouri woman charged with using a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide. The prosecutors, rebutting a defense motion to dismiss the case, argued in court documents filed Aug. 12 that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is relevant to the case against Lori Drew. The statute used to indict the woman usually applies to Internet hackers who illegally access accounts to get information. Drew is accused helping to create a false-identity account on the MySpace social networking site and harassing her young neighbor with cruel messages.
August 13, 2008 at 05:05 AM
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Federal prosecutors defended their use of a cyber crime statute in the case of a Missouri woman charged with using a MySpace hoax that allegedly led a 13-year-old girl to commit suicide.
The prosecutors, rebutting a defense motion to dismiss the case, argued in court documents filed Aug. 12 that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is relevant to the case against Lori Drew.
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