Saturday, January 20th 2007
MySpace sued by angry parents of sexually assaulted users
Four angry families are suing MySpace, because all of them have one thing in common. All four families have a daughter that's been sexually assaulted by a guy they've met on MySpace, and been seduced into meeting. Two law firms, Barry & Loewy of Austin, Texas, and Arnold & Itkin of Houston, says the familes are filing separate suits in the Los Angeles Superior court. MySpace is being accused of being negligent, reckless, fraudulent and misrepresenting itself. MySpace wants to point out that Myspace is "an industry leader on Internet safety", and that they make some serious effort to get parents to take responsibility for their kids. The families of the victims are after several million dollars each.
Source:
The Inquirer
27 Comments on MySpace sued by angry parents of sexually assaulted users
Preferably by forcing them to wear a veil.
Preferably one covered in napalm and cookies.
Gotta love roasting flesh and cookies, yum yum.
The problem here isn't sites that allow pedophilic behaviour, it's parents who allow young ones unrestricted access to the internet. Has anyone taken a look at these girls' MySpace profiles (and found sexually inviting bollocks and a falsified age) yet?
I'm not saying MySpace is a good thing, I still say if you're close enough friends with someone you should just go visit them. But it's not MySpace's fault that some dirty young wenches ended up getting date-raped. After all, it coulda happened through a chatroom, instant messaging, meeting on the street, whatever.