ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tina Meier has told the story of her 13-year-old daughter Megan’s 2006 suicide to teachers, TV talk show hosts and parents across the country. Now she’s helping to train local …
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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tina Meier has told the story of her 13-year-old daughter Megan’s 2006 suicide to teachers, TV talk show hosts and parents across the country. Now she’s helping to train local police officers on the unflinching, often brutal world of electronic harassment.More than 70 officers from two dozen law enforcement agencies in Missouri and Illinois gathered Wednesday for a daylong cyberbullying workshop led by Maier.Her daughter killed herself after an Internet hoax led by an adult woman who lived four houses away from the Meier family in St. Charles County.All but a handful of states now have laws covering either cyberbullying or electronic harassment. But Meier said prosecutors and judges remain reluctant to forcefully apply those statutes.Cyberbullying Workshop focuses on electronic harrassment
