Sierra Lamar's Facebook

Yesterday, an insensitive clod thought it would be amusing to hack the facebook account of missing Sierra Lamar, and posted some false information while pretending to be her! The clod even posted an address in Saratoga, Ca.!  Why would anyone do this? Why would anyone think this is funny? Sierra Lamar is fifteen years old and has been missing for three months now, and is presumed dead. There is nothing amusing about making false posts to her facebook page. There is also nothing amusing about giving false information to law enforcement.

Something everyone should know before jumping on the internet and and posting somewhere, is that anyone can use a tracker to track visits to a website. While nothing is perfect, and servers occasionally don't transmit signals, trackers do a pretty good job of relaying information. If anyone with a website can track a visit to it's source, just think of what the FBI can do. Perhaps the person who left the false information on Sierra's facebook wall was not thinking about that. Also, in a lot of places, giving false information to law enforcement, especially during an investigation, is against the law. Casey Anthony may have been found not guilty of her daughter's murder, but remember her story about Zenaida Gonzalez? She still has to answer for that in civil court. Also, Desiree Young, mother of missing Kyron Horman, is about to force Kyron's stepmother, Terri Horman, to answer in civil court about her role in Kyron's disappearance. One thing that is certain to be discussed in that court case is a nonexistant medical appointment Terri Horman claimed to have made for Kyron for the day he went missing. Giving false information to the police during an investigation can have some bad repercussions for the person who does it, as well as for those who jump to investigate the false leads.