MySpace Monday
The Attorney General of Missouri announced last week that 373 state residents have had their profiles removed from MySpace because they appeared to match those of registered sex offenders. While this is great news, don’t breathe a sigh of relief just yet…
Every cop will tell you they have only caught a fraction of the guys looking to have sex with kids online. Therefore, the convicted and registered are far outnumbered by the guys that are still out there and undetected. So while removing 373 known perverts is great; there are still hundreds of thousands out there that we have yet to identify…
That’s where PC Pandora comes in. With out computer monitoring software, you can be fully aware of who your kids talks to on social networks AND how they represent themselves. You can find out who their friends are and do the parental ‘check up’ to make sure they aren’t older scumbags looking for a piece of young pie.
Happy Monday!
June 18, 2009
Koster: 373 from Missouri linked to sex crimes removed from MySpace
By Shane Anthony, ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCHAttorney General Chris Koster said today that another 373 Missourians have been removed from MySpace because their profiles appeared to match those of registered sex offenders.
Their names now have been passed the to the Missouri Highway Patrol for an investigation into potential parole violations for using a computer and trying to contact minors.
“I will continue to aggressively pursue any avenue sex offenders use to threaten the safety of our children,” Koster said in a statement.
MySpace reached an agreement in January 2008 with state attorneys general to take several steps to protect minors who use the popular social networking site.
Nanci Gonder, a spokeswoman for Koster’s office, said MySpace identifies the sex offenders, removes their profiles from its site and sends the information to Koster’s office. She said the attorney general requests the information every two to three months.
Gonder said Koster’s office is working with Facebook, another popular social networking site, to reach a similar agreement.
Since January of last year, 1,822 MySpace profiles have been removed in Missouri, Gonder said. She said the number of those profiles that were from the St. Louis area was not readily available.
Koster’s office declined to release the names of the banned users, saying they were closed records because of the ongoing investigation.
Gonder said the Highway Patrol compares the names and locations from MySpace with the Sex Offenders Registry list and then passes their information on to local police. Local prosecutors then can decide whether to seek charges.
