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November 19, 2008 | 
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The Jury selection began yesterday in the trial of a Missouri woman accused of using the internet to bully her 13 year old neighbor Megan Meier who hanged her self in 2006 after Lori Drew, 39, taunted her by creating a fictitious MySpace page pretending to be a boy internet admirer.
Although Drew and the young girl lived in Missouri, The case which is being tried in California because the location of the MySpace servers are located.
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