In May, after a series of e-mails and phone calls, he picked her up at school, took her out to eat and to a movie, then drove her to an apartment complex parking lot in South Austin, where he sexually assaulted her, police said. He was arrested May 19. And at no point during these several hours did a single "this is a bad idea" neuron fire inside her numb skull?
And this is somehow the Internet's fault?
Please contact us if you have information we should consider as we bring this to the attention of the public
OK. Here's some information we should consider as we bring this to the attention of the public:
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START TAKING SOME RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS AND YOUR MINOR CHILREN'S EDUCATION IN HOW TO DO SO, YOU FREAKING MORONS!!
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You are correct. I agree you need to be taking responsibility, and that seems to especially apply on the MySpace issue that you highlighted above.
The public library issue, not part of the original story but under discussion in this thread, is a different story. There, a perfectly innocent kid being supervised by a perfect innocent parent can be raped or molested even while sitting in his chair at the public library by someone viewing or having just viewed unfiltered porn made available by the library for, let's face it, reasons of political correctness. Here's a news story including video of a guy next to the children's section masturbating to porn in the public library: "
Sexual Activity at Library Caught on Tape," WKYC-TV, 23 May 2006.
And parental responsibility has nothing to do with why an ALA librarian used an ALA list to give my public school kindergartner sexually inappropriate material (in the opinion of not only myself but also the teacher and the school superintendent).
And are parents to blame when the ALA intentionally misleads them about the contents of books so the child read about oral sex in books given the ALA's top award as the best book for kids as young as twelve for 2006? About this, see
Porn Pushers - The ALA and Looking For Alaska - One Example of How the ALA Pushes Porn On Children. For more, I recommend
PABBIS - Parents Against Bad Books In Schools.
These are just some examples.