Sex Offender Charged With Using MySpace:

66-year-old Howard Michael Bailey of Burlington, NC was arrested for being a registered sex offender on MySpace. In case you haven't heard that's illegal in North Carolina now.

Bailey was also allegedly using e-mail addresses that weren't registered with the state.

I'm sure our fine Attorney General Roy Cooper will laud this as his MySpace legislation is working. While I'm glad a sex offender is off the streets I think I can probably count on one hand how many NC sex offenders have been caught up with this law. Also it doesn't address the real issue of keeping the un-registered predators from contacting children on social sites.

Police: Girl Sexually Assaulted by Man She Met on MySpace:

13-year-old girl allegedly kidnapped, assaulted by man she met on MySpace:

Police in Los Angeles arrested 35-year-old Samuel Francisco (yes kids, his name is Sam Francisco) for allegedly kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl that he met on MySpace.

Police say that Fransisco lured the girl away from her middle school and took her to another location where she was sexually assaulted.

Apparently L.A. takes this kind of thing very seriously as the Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, Major Crimes Detectives, Secret Service Agents and Immigration Custom Enforcement Officers all went to Fransisco's residence to get the girl back and to arrest Francisco. That must have been the biggest can of whupass on the other side of his door.

Fransisco may have had other victims as well.

Anyone with information about this crime is asked to contact Los Angeles Police Department's (LAPD) Internet Crimes Against Children Unit, Lieutenant Andrea Grossman at (562) 624-4028 or 1-877-LAPD-24-7.

Binghamton man sentenced for luring minors on Internet:

32-year-old Mark McGrath, not the famous one, of Binghamton, New York has been sentenced to 10 years behind bars for solicitation of minors through MySpace.

McGrath admitted to posing as a middle school girl named Cristal in order to solicit under age boys for sex.

He'll also have 15 years of supervised parole when gets out.

So he'll be 42 when he gets out and 57 when he's off probation. Plenty young enough for him to offend again and again the supervision is really not that much of a deterrent.

Alleged MySpace misuse leads to sex crimes indictment for New Lebanon man:

21-year-old Joseph Cummings (too easy) of New Lebanon, Ohio is accused of using MySpace to have sex and take nude pics of underage girls.

Cummings allegedly posed as a 17-year-old boy in order to meet girls as young as 14-16.

Cummings is alleged to have had sexual contact with at least two of his victims.

Montgomery County, Ohio Prosecutor Mathias H. Heck, Jr. actually touted some common sense for parents.

“As parents, we all need to be aware of who our children are talking to while online, and never allow them to meet strangers face-to-face.”

In other words check your kids' internet activities. How many times do I have to say it?

It's one thing to know that your teenage daughter is having sex. It's another to know that she had it with an alleged molester.