[george wythe]

Match.com date ends ugly

A meeting arranged through the online dating service Match.com has led to allegations of rape.

Beverly police say a woman called them reporting a sexual assault at an Essex Street residence where she met her date in person for the first time after talking on line.

[dinoparty]

This must be regulated better. Waiting for the mandatory libertarian to blame it all on the parents...

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Wow...I'm shocked...just shocked.

Such a wholesome website too!

/immense sarcasm

[taxcontrol]

Ok folks, esp parents, listen up. I work for IBM and it is my job to build security into our customer's networks. HOWEVER, this does not relieve you from the responsibility of knowing what your child is doing with your computer and Internet connection.

Consider the Internet no different than the rest of the world. Know where your kids are and what they are doing and when they are doing it and who they are talking to.

If you do not know how to do this, then LEARN!!!!! There are often many local community colleges and free classes on how to use computers and protect your kids. Take advantage of the classes.... and I don't want to hear any crap about not having enough time. Will that be any comfort when your shattered and emotionally scared daughter is crying because some boy or pervert raped her?!

Be the adult here and set some ground rules. Put your computer that the kids use out in the middle of the house WERE THERE IS NO PRIVACY. That one action alone will keep most people from going places they should not.

[edcoil]

"Men used MySpace.com to meet underage girls for sex "

As opposed to women using their classroom?

[RicocheT]

Every means of communication invented has been used by wrong doers. I'm not excusing these perverts' actions, I'm saying it's hardly news that Match.com or any other Internet hook up site or chat site attracts the bad with the good.

Newspaper and magazine lonely heart columns were used in the past. Boy's and Girl's organizations, school organizations/ etc. have been infiltrated by some nasty actors. When the telephone was invented, some worried it allowed too much dangerous contact.

The solution comes down to parental involvement with their children along with appropriate cautions to youth. When inappropriate contact is found, the law should have quick and harsh penalties.

[skaterboy]

guys are scum but the girls are too dumb for words..why does an 11 year old have access to a comp and a myspace account anyway..hello parents

[cardinal4]

Care to weigh in...?

[AmishDude]

Your mystery date...Scott Ritter!

[Bean Counter]

How many attorney are out there slavering for the chance to file a criminal liability lawsuit against MySpace dot com? All they need is one parent with a dead teenage daughter that they can blame on MySpace; for allowing minors in, along with known pedeophiles.

It could yet happen...

[FreedomNeocon]

You aren't allowed to post articles concerning news, myspace and underage girls.

Jim pulls them simply if anyone clicks the 'report abuse' tag... something about "promoting, and defending child pornography"