Even though I think Lori Drew, the woman who posed as a young teenage boy who drew another young teenager into a flirtation in order to learn what this young woman was saying about her daughter (this young woman later committed suicide, based on some of the cruel things this "boy" had said to her), is a complete and total moron, I think that indicting her on conspiracy charges and "three counts of accessing protected computers without authorization to obtain information" is a bit much.

Can someone explain that last charge? I didn't think there was any legalese for that?

You remember this case, right? Adult woman get a bit miffed when her teenage daughter (mouthpieces for truth and justice) comes home and tattles a bit about something another kid says. Decides, with the babysitters help, to set this kid up by pretending to be a cute boy. It helps that the other girl in question is having a rough period of adolescence in terms of physical attractiveness (everyone does; you gotta learn how to work it!). Mom lures the girl in with some kindness, a little flirtation, and then betrays her. The girl takes this rejection as a crippling blow, and then kills herself. It destroys her, it destroys the parents, and their marriage.

How responsible was this adult woman? She should be ashamed.

Forget court charges.

Bring back the stocks, and pass out the tomatoes.