Girl took own life after 'heart-rending' MySpace hoax

A woman faces charges for allegedly perpetrating a hoax on the online social network MySpace against a 13-year-old neighbour who committed suicide.

Lori Drew, of suburban St Louis, Missouri, is accused of helping to create a MySpace account in the name of someone who did not exist to convince troubled teenager Megan Meier she was chatting with a 16-year-old boy called Josh Evans.