It was meant to be an escape, a break from the day-to-day routine, a fantasy world where 13-year-old Missouri high-school student Megan Meier could retreat from reality. But when Meier began corresponding with 16-year-old Josh Evans on her MySpace page, it rapidly turned into a nightmare. Instead of the sweet, flirtatious communications she had hoped for, he started telling her “everybody hates you” and “the world would be a better place without you in it.” Twenty minutes later her mother found her hanging in her cupboard. She died the next day.
