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I used to think vice principals had it easy. All they did, I thought, was administer licks to wayward students. Back in the day, they called it "paddling." Today, they call it "child abuse." Vice principals have among the toughest jobs of all — administering discipline in a hypersensitive, lawsuit-fearing, politically correct public school system. Try dealing with the student who yells at you, swears at you, threatens you. "That happens everywhere," one school administrator said Thursday. Then there's the kid who takes aim at your reputation. Ask Anna Draker. As assistant principal at Clark High School, she can tell...

A fake web page on the website, myspace.com, has some Northside ISD students in legal trouble, News 4 WOAI learned Wednesday. The teens are accused of using the site to spread malicious rumors about their vice principal. The vice principal is taking the students to court, News 4 WOAI learned. On Clark High School's web page, a picture of Assistant Principal Anna Draker has been removed. According to Draker’s attorney, a couple of students doctored her pictures and posted them on myspace.com. The civil lawsuit claims a couple of students who Draker disciplined retaliated by filing the myspace page. The...

DETROIT — A 16-year-old girl who flew to the Middle East to see a man she met on MySpace.com was detained in Jordan and was headed home Friday, an FBI spokesman said. U.S. officials persuaded Katherine Lester to take the return flight from Amman, FBI Special Agent Robert Beeckman said from the agency's Detroit office. Katherine had disappeared from her home in Gilford, in eastern Michigan, on Monday and apparently planned to visit a man whose MySpace account describes him as a 25-year-old from Jericho, said Tuscola County Undersheriff James Jashinske. The sheriff's department contacted the FBI, which traced the...

MySpace.com has quickly become the malt shop for today's teens – but, unlike Al's place in "Happy Days," this virtual "hangout" is also frequented by unsavory characters who are after our kids. What most teens see as just a fun place to connect with friends has become a sexual predator's and pornographer's playground. As the New York Times reported May 27, the site's content has become so skanky that even some corporate advertisers, including Weight Watchers and T-Mobile, are either pulling their ads from MySpace or threatening to do so. The pages of sex-film stars like Jenna Jameson and...

NEPTUNE BEACH, FL -- A First Coast man is behind bars after police say he posed online as a 16-year old girl to lure a teen victim into forced sex. 27-year-old Travus Earl Belden is charged with attempted sexual battery on a minor, false imprisonment, and battery. His alleged victim -- a 14-year old Neptune Beach boy. Police who arrested Belden say he told them he was planning to harm the boy. "He (Belden) said that his intentions were sexual and violent in nature and he intended to do the young boy harm," said Neptune Beach Sergeant Ryan Hall. Police...

Guess who's "talking to the kids" on "MySpace.com"? Eon McKai produces "alt-porn," and represents one of the biggest porn companies, VCA, now owned by Hustler. McKai says he is talking to the kids and urges the "mainstream industry" to do the same. "Since watching Suicide Girls [the popular alt-chick Web site] grow, I try and promote my product in the same way," says McKai, who is also promoted by his company, VCA. One of the first things I did was create a MySpace profile and start talking to the kids, I just open that channel. We sent buttons to...

My daughter wants a screen name. She says she needs to instant message her friends.   First of all, she’s only eleven. She doesn’t need to instant anything to anyone.   Secondly, she doesn’t have a computer. I’m the one who has a computer and I need it for work and the kids already think it’s ridiculous that I have 334 messages in my inbox and we don’t really have time for others tying up the computer.   And the one time I let the kids download a game from some kid friendly cartoon online site, my hard drive...

Kansas cops raid a high school after plans are uncovered off a web page of 5 students to do a Columbine style killing spree at their high school....developing and breaking...

Only three things are certain in life. MySpace, Taxes, and Death. If you have a MySpace account and you die, this is where you will end up. MyDeathSpace.com memorializes deceased MySpace users and picks up where a regular obituary leaves off. Click the MySpace Deaths link at the top to view the latest MySpace Deaths!

"Kiss me", "Touch me", "Feel me", "Rape me" – the invitations flashed across the photo of a scantily clad young woman on one of the most popular teen Web hangouts in the world – MySpace.com. Techno-hussies and innocent children just enjoying the latest method to socialize with their friends are falling victim because they are sharing very personal, often provocative and trashy information on MySpace.com, which is quickly becoming a sexual predator's playground. So rampant are the reports and allegations linking sex-crimes and even murder to activity on MySpace that producers at "America's Most Wanted" are looking into the...

A website that encourages young people to post personal information about themselves and has been linked to a series of rapes and other crimes by sexual predators is wholly owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, which also owns the Fox News Channel. Murdoch sealed the deal for MySpace.com and its parent, Intermix Media, for $580 million in July. When the deal was announced, Murdoch said in a statement: "Intermix's brands, such as MySpace.com, are some of the Web's hottest properties and resonate with the same audiences that are most attracted to Fox's news, sports and entertainment offerings." California Web entrepreneurs...

(CBS4) MIDDLETOWN, CT Police in Middletown, Connecticut are investigating at least five sexual assaults that may be linked to the popular web site, Myspace.com. Middletown Police Chief Bill McKenna said none of the incidents appeared to have been violent. He said the girls, ages 12 to 16, say they were fondled or had consensual sex with men who turned out to be older than they claimed. It is a predator's dream come true, this Web site," said McKenna. "Because not only can you see them, but you can see their friends. You can find out where they go to middle...

HARTFORD, Conn. - Police are investigating whether as many as seven teenage girls have been sexually assaulted by men they met through the popular Web site MySpace.com. The girls, ages 12 to 16, are from Middletown and say they were fondled or had consensual sex with men who turned out to be older than they claimed. None of the incidents appeared to be violent, said Middletown Police Sgt. Bill McKenna. He said it was difficult to determine the exact number of victims because some girls have been reluctant to disclose that they met their assailants online. The social networking Web...

Democrats perverting justice By: RICK REISS - Commentary It is both baffling and outrageous how sexual predators operate in our society. Many act with impunity and with no regard to consequences. Recent headlines are replete with examples. - Last week, Murrieta police arrested parolee Nicholas John Garcia, alleging that he repeatedly attempted to lure teenage girls at two Murrieta high school campuses. Garcia remains jailed without bail. - Lifelong sexual predator Joseph Edward Duncan faces capital murder charges for the slaying of an Idaho family and the kidnapping and abuse of the family's daughter. Riverside County law enforcement has connected...