The woman who created a fake Myspace to play a hoax on a 13-year old girl has been charged with one count of conspiracy and three counts of accessing protected computers without authorisation to obtain information to inflict emotional distress.

Lori Drew evidently created a MySpace page and convinced teenaged neighbor Megan Meier that she had a new boyfriend named Josh.

Megan and fictious "Josh" formed an online relationship that developed over seven weeks before Lori used her character to demean Megan.

The teen girl eventually killed herself and the Meier family blames Lori.

If convicted, Drew could get up to 5 years in jail for each of the three charges.

In this photo:
Tina Meier holds two pictures of her daughter Megan who committed suicide in 2006 after receiving cruel messages on MySpace. Inset: Ashley Grills who denies instigating MySpace attack.