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Cops Fear Vt. 12-Year-Old May Have Gone To Meet Someone She Met Through Online Social Site

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by mfruge1 June 27, 2008 11:02 PM EDT
Not that it needs to be pointed out but there are a multiple faults here. Some people say that MySpace doesn''t need to be shut down; however, how do you expect MySpace to protect children or adults when they are unable to protect the President of the United States from defamation of character. That''s right, MySpace has allowed numerous profiles to be made of the President, where there are a vast number of slanderous comments made about him by people PRETENDING to be him. They also have allowed multiple profiles to be made by people claiming to be dictators and terrorist. Search Osama Bin Laden, Adolph Hitler or Saddam Hussein, and see how many profiles are on there. No one is safe because MySpace apparently doesn''t care. There is a huge problem in this country and alot of it is because of the internet. The entire thing needs to be cleaned up.
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by u-r-right June 27, 2008 10:22 PM EDT
PEDOPHILES CANT GRAB KIDS THROUGH THE COMPUTER SCREEN!!!! unfortunetelly pedophiles have to be online as posers and preteen girls have to be ignorant. the computer is actually one of the safer ways for kids to talk to people AS LONG AS IT STAYS ON THE COMPUTER.
"what happens on the computer, should stay on the computer"


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Posted by DeepThinker4 at 06:19 PM : Jun 27, 2008

Wow, do you have some big blinders on! And earplugs.

Explain to me why a child needs to meet people on line? Why do they need to have "online" friends that they will never meet in person? There is no need! They have peers they can hang out with in their own town.

And you don''t think a pedophile can "grab" a child through the computer??? All they need to do is befriend the child online and they can find out exactly where they live and other personal information. They then drive there and get the job done. It HAS HAPPENED too many times before!

Kids do not need to be on social web sites and they don''t need "online only" friends.

Wise up!
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by love4all2 June 27, 2008 10:00 PM EDT
people on here are stupid, the computer should not be used as a toy for kids. they should not be meeting people in chat rooms. kids should be outside playing. that is what we used to do. what ever happened to kids talking on the phones to one another til all hours. this meeting and chatting and telling kids not to give personal info is stupid and ingnorant. the minute you tell a kid not to do something they turn right around and do just because they were told no.
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by deepthinker4 June 27, 2008 9:19 PM EDT
faith_in_w and u-r-right

sorry but Im really sick of uptight, ignorant people like you. Its perfectly fine to let kids meet people online as long as you make sure they dont give out personal info... address, full name, phone number... PEDOPHILES CANT GRAB KIDS THROUGH THE COMPUTER SCREEN!!!! unfortunetelly pedophiles have to be online as posers and preteen girls have to be ignorant. the computer is actually one of the safer ways for kids to talk to people AS LONG AS IT STAYS ON THE COMPUTER.
"what happens on the computer, should stay on the computer"
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by love4all2 June 27, 2008 9:08 PM EDT
I have an Idea. PUBLIC TORTURE, and DEATH to any rapist murderer etc.

Nations that have public beheadings and hanging have little to know violent crime.

They also cut off the hands of thieves.

Call it cruel. But its a cruel world. And Cruelty is a good deterent


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Posted by victimsofgra at 02:21 PM : Jun 27, 2008

I agree with you!! America would be alot safer if pedophiles had something to fear. Today, if they''''re caught, they get a nice modern cell with cable TV and internet access and all that ***!!!


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Posted by DeepThinker4 at 05:58 PM : Jun 27, 2008
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YAHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
PUBLIC EXECUTIONS OR PHYSICAL PUNISHMENT FOR ANY CRIME. NOT JUST RAPIST AND MURDERERS DRUG DEALERS SHOULD BE BEAT IN PUBLI MAYBE A 100 LASHES WITH A WHIP. I BET THAT WOULD STEER THEM CLEAR AND YES PUBLIC EXECUTIONS WOULD PROBABLY MAKE SOME OF THESE IDIOTS TO THINK TWICE
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by love4all2 June 27, 2008 9:05 PM EDT
I believe the responsibility belongs to the parents. they shoud teach these kids how dangerous it is to meet people off the internet. there are so many idiots on the internet and looking for troubled or neglected kids. they say all the right things and bam there are the kids out the door and into danger. I think places like my space should be shut down or should charge a fee or something to control this kind of stuff. Just like the lady being charged in the suicide of the little girl. people need to be held accountable.
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by deepthinker4 June 27, 2008 8:58 PM EDT
I have an Idea. PUBLIC TORTURE, and DEATH to any rapist murderer etc.

Nations that have public beheadings and hanging have little to know violent crime.

They also cut off the hands of thieves.

Call it cruel. But its a cruel world. And Cruelty is a good deterent


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Posted by victimsofgra at 02:21 PM : Jun 27, 2008

I agree with you!! America would be alot safer if pedophiles had something to fear. Today, if they''re caught, they get a nice modern cell with cable TV and internet access and all that ***!!!
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by deepthinker4 June 27, 2008 8:53 PM EDT
We need to shut down sites like My Space !!!! They are hot beds of trouble.


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Posted by junglejimy12 at 05:35 PM : Jun 27, 2008
No we do not need to shut down sites like myspace. myspace is a perfectly okay site. All we need to do is discuss with kids NOT to meet someone in public they met online. If this girl, like most other myspace users was a bit more cautious and kept it online, noting would have happened. Pedophiles cant grab kids thru the computer!!! You can have friendships online and meet people without meething them in person. Lots of kids do it and dont get harmned. Unforunetelly, this girl was ignorant and decided to meet the person.
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by ybotheratall June 27, 2008 8:07 PM EDT
When any of my children EVER wanted to go out, see a friend, have an overnight, meet at the mall etc, I always placed a call to a parent or two, depending on the situation. I always asked for a quick call during an event depending on what was going on, and always kept tabs, asked questions.

I ask if anyone smokes, has a gun in the home and what the standard bedtimes are and if there will always be an adult in the home. I take being called overprotective as a compliment. My kids don''t have cell phones because they don''t need them. I always know where they are.
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by mediamomma June 27, 2008 6:59 PM EDT
earlier today they were searching the lake where the floating bridge is located. they had divers looking in it for her because an article of clothing was found near the bridge. yes, randolph, vt is a sleepy little farm community where everyone knows everyone. i hope she''s found alive but if they are putting divers in the lake, then odds are they are thinking she is not. if i was that girls mom, the uncle would be beaten with my aluminum bat for just leaving her off like that. you don''t do that. you wait. but i wouldn''t even buy the story of meeting a friend at cumby''s to go and visit sick relative at DHMC in hanover, nh either. doesn''t set right. if it was a real friend, that friend would have driven to the girls house to pick her up. not meet her at cumby''s. how stupid are people? for the record, not everyone in vt is stupid like that.
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