Jury convicts Missouri mom of lesser charges in online hoax

Thursday, November 27, 2008

LOS ANGELES -- A Missouri mother on trial in a landmark cyberbullying case was convicted Wednesday of three minor offenses instead of the main conspiracy charge in an Internet hoax that apparently drove a 13-year-old girl to suicide.

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