ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

People v. Drew

Okay, so there was this lady named Lori Drew who made a fake profile on the internet and pretended to be a boy named Josh Evans. She did this so she could talk to a girl named Megan Meier, who was the same age as you and me, and who lived in the same town as Lori Drew.

Lori Drew pretended to be Josh and started talking to Megan on the internet. They became friends and started talking every day. But then, one day, Lori Drew started being mean to Megan and said some really hurtful things to her. This made Megan very sad and she ended up taking her own life.

When the police found out what had happened, they decided to take Lori Drew to court because they thought she was responsible for Megan's death. They wanted to charge her with a crime called "cyberbullying", which means being mean to people on the internet and causing them harm.

But it was really hard for the police to prove that Lori Drew had done something wrong. They had to show that she knew that her actions would cause harm to Megan, and that she didn't care.

In the end, Lori Drew was found not guilty of cyberbullying. But a lot of people were still upset and thought that what she did was really wrong. They wanted to make sure that nobody else would do something like this in the future, so they started working on making new laws and rules about cyberbullying.

So, to sum it up: Lori Drew pretended to be someone else on the internet and was mean to a girl named Megan, who ended up taking her own life. The police tried to charge Lori Drew with cyberbullying, but it was hard to prove. Even though Lori Drew wasn't found guilty, people still thought that what she did was really wrong and wanted to make new laws to prevent it from happening again.