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From: Barb <[email protected]> 
Date: February 7, 2008 12:00:03 PM EST 
To: [email protected], [email protected] 
Subject: The Robert Pierson Article on ED 
Dear ED Site Administrators: 
I am writing to you on behalf of my son, whom you know on your site as Pokchu, and who is now in legal dire straits due to this 
article: 
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/Robert_Pierson 

In its current state, it is far less than an inflammatory ridicule of both a murdered boy and his mourning sister. However, because
of its original content and the fact that Pierson's sisters were able to correctly deduce that my son is the author, the police came 
to our house last night and spoke to my husband and me as well as our son about the grave situation. We are very concerned, and 
because we know you like our son, I hope you are concerned as well. 
 
In Pennsylvania, where we live, we now have hate-crime legislation that could be used to bring charges against our son for this 
article and federal statues regarding computer use could also come into play. He risks being a convicted felon at the age of 15
because of this article. That is how serious this is. He cannot simply deny that he wrote the article; his user name is too closely
and definitely associated with his identity, so that ship has sailed, I'm afraid. 

You wrote, "Writing internet articles is not something worth pursuing against a 14 year old who has no assets." That's not quite true. 
He has assets: his parents. We face losing our house and all of our savings if we need to pay for legal counsel to defend him in 
court, and a 15 year old boy risks losing his place in a wonderful high school and going to juvie. Repeatedly reposting the 
original article content is compromising his ability to make things right and alle 

Right now you face the possibility of soon receiving a Cease & Desist order from the Piersons' lawyer if you do not stop reinstating 
the offensive content that our son has deleted/altered; the commonwealth of Pennsylvania and/or Illinois could charge you with 
corrupting the morals of a minor for misleading our son into believing that the previous content did not violate both state and 
federal hate crime laws, and for failing to police your own site and reposting del 

All you need to do to avoid all of the above is to stop reinstating the original content. Please do us all a favor and allow the 
current content to stand; then we may have a chance of doing some damage-control with the Pierson family and defusing a very tense 
situation that could still have a permanent negative effect on our son's life. 

Sincerely, 
Barbara Purdom