Teen Sues After Sexual Assault
A 14-year-old girl from Travis County Texas sued myspace.com for failing to protect her from an Internet predator.
According to statesman.com, she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online. And as she is not by any means the first minor to suffer this fate at the hands of an Internet predator, her lawsuit is not surprising.
However, it is rather naive to assume that myspace should bear all the blame in cases like this.
After all, where were her parents?
Where were her parents when she was chatting online with an Internet predator for a month?
Where were her parents when she willingly got into a car with this man, who picked her up from school?
It's true that social networking sites should be used with care; they can sometimes provide anonymity to pedophiles, stalkers and predators. But it's a parent's job to teach their kids not to talk to strangers, whether they meet them in real life or online.
This is why parental control software like WebWatcher is important: it allows parents to implement website blocking technology and website recording, as well as chat recording and email recording.
WebWatcher allows parents to keep watching their kids when they make that move from the real world to the cyber world.
According to statesman.com, she was sexually assaulted by a 19-year-old man she met online. And as she is not by any means the first minor to suffer this fate at the hands of an Internet predator, her lawsuit is not surprising.
However, it is rather naive to assume that myspace should bear all the blame in cases like this.
After all, where were her parents?
Where were her parents when she was chatting online with an Internet predator for a month?
Where were her parents when she willingly got into a car with this man, who picked her up from school?
It's true that social networking sites should be used with care; they can sometimes provide anonymity to pedophiles, stalkers and predators. But it's a parent's job to teach their kids not to talk to strangers, whether they meet them in real life or online.
This is why parental control software like WebWatcher is important: it allows parents to implement website blocking technology and website recording, as well as chat recording and email recording.
WebWatcher allows parents to keep watching their kids when they make that move from the real world to the cyber world.
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