A Missouri woman accused of contributing to a teenager's suicide by creating a fake MySpace account to taunt the girl pleaded not guilty in federal court Monday.
After she was
implicated in the hoax aimed at harassing a teenage neighbor, Lori Drew was charged with conspiracy and accessing protected computers without authorization to get information used to inflict emotional
distress.
Prosecutors say Drew was behind the fictional MySpace account, which she created to find out what 13-year-old Megan Meier was saying about her daughter.
Drew will stand trial on
July 26, and if convicted, could face up to 20 years in prison.
--Tanya Irwin