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Article: Parents fear MySpace is a playground for pedophiles.
- Article from:
- The Dallas Morning News (Dallas, TX)
- Article date:
- March 9, 2006
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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 ...