All of these people trying to minimize this because of this specific boy or 18 year old or whatever are missing the point. It wouldn't matter if Foley was really IMing Ted Kennedy. Foley was allowed to be in close proximity with real life 16 and 17 year old pages and probably younger kids he saw in hearings while Republicans dilly dallyed about whose responsibility it was to report him.
And?
Report him for what ? Asking for a picture ? Asking how the page did during the hurricane ?
You are missing the point - the IMs were the sexually explicit communications and they were only known to Republican leadership this past Friday. The emails to the 16yo, known since 2003, were merely friendly. The parents asked the leadership to stop the communications, and the leadership did that by asking Foley to not socialize with the pages.
What part of the story do you not get ?
Apparently you didn't read my post, very carefully, before you responded to it.