Article: Parents fear MySpace is a playground for pedophiles.

Byline: Bill Marvel and Nancy Churnin

DALLAS _ Mom was shocked when she sat down to help her daughter with a computer problem.

Right up there on the Internet where anybody might find it was her daughter's picture, hobbies and friends. And a lie: The 12-year-old had listed her age as 14 to get access to the Web site.

Not only that, but among the e-mail messages her daughter received through the site was one from a 30-year-old man offering to open up "a whole new group of friends" for her.

The woman, a divorced mother from the Dallas area, doesn't want her name or that of her daughter in the newspaper because, she says, the issue is ...

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