Mother and Daughter Sue MySpace.com for $30 Million USD

A 14-year old girl and her mother have filed a $30 million lawsuit against the popular social networking site MySpace.com. The 14-year old claims she was abducted and sexually assaulted by a 19-year old man she met on MySpace.com. The suit alleges that because MySpace has no age or identity verification measures in place and does not prevent strangers from contacting users under the age of 16 that the site is negligent in the assault that occurred.

At what point did the girl think, “Wow, this is not the same guy I was expecting.” Even after clueing in, she would still get in the car? While I agree that age verification should be put into place on MySpace, a lot of this should be the parents responsibility.