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fent
06-20-2006, 10:36 AM
i'm ashamed that this person is from TX...

A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a Buda man she met on MySpace.com sued the popular social networking site Monday for $30 million, claiming that it fails to protect minors from adult sexual predators.

The lawsuit claims that the Web site does not require users to verify their age and calls the security measures aimed at preventing strangers from contacting users younger than 16 "utterly ineffective."
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Solis contacted the girl through her MySpace Web site in April, telling her that he was a high school senior who played on the football team, according to the lawsuit.

In May, after a series of e-mails and phone calls, he picked her up at school, took her out to eat and to a movie, then drove her to an apartment complex parking lot in South Austin, where he sexually assaulted her, police said. He was arrested May 19.

how exactly is it MySpace.com's fault that this girl decided to get into a car with a guy she'd never met or that her parents weren't involved enough to know that this might happen?

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/20myspace.html
RedskinsDave
06-20-2006, 10:39 AM
Maybe people can sue match.com when their date is a freak or when their picture is ten years old and they are still forced to buy dinner.
CNYSkinFan
06-20-2006, 10:40 AM
Maybe people can sue match.com when their date is a freak or when their picture is ten years old and they are still forced to buy dinner.

lol had that happen to you too huh?
Spence
06-20-2006, 10:43 AM
Where are this girl's parents?
CNYSkinFan
06-20-2006, 10:44 AM
Where are this girl's parents?
at the Lawyer's office signing the briefs apparently
fent
06-20-2006, 10:47 AM
at the Lawyer's office signing the briefs apparently

i think i'd be more worried about making sure that my daughter didn't see Solis' briefs in the first place than worry about signing them later.
Agrawog
06-20-2006, 03:28 PM
i'm ashamed that this person is from TX...



how exactly is it MySpace.com's fault that this girl decided to get into a car with a guy she'd never met or that her parents weren't involved enough to know that this might happen?

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/20myspace.html

I think this case is even more ridiculous in that he emailed HER page. It's not like he put up a page and stated he was a 14 year old with fake pictures and such to entice her. He trolled the site (which she put up VOLUNTARILY) and the rest is up to her.

I am all for sites like MySpace putting in whatever controls they can but are they supposed to filter each of your incoming emails too?

I feel bad for the girl (she was sexually assaulted and only 14!) but clearly this is the parents or someone else pushing the suit. Great, now she gets to be violated twice.
bgforever
06-21-2006, 10:27 AM
Maybe people can sue match.com when their date is a freak or when their picture is ten years old and they are still forced to buy dinner.


:lol1:

Uh,,,well yer honor, he was the worst thing I ever saw, and a downright disgrace to humanity!
PyroGenic
06-21-2006, 10:52 AM
I heard about this yesterday...

I'm kinda wondering that if she actually wins this lawsuit then wouldnt it be feasible that other physical places could be sued using the same logic? Like pretend it wasn't myspace but it was some shopping mall where they met up and he started saying he was a football playing senior, could she sue the mall? Okay, maybe a bad example but whatever, I feel bad for her but she's an idiot.
VTBob
06-21-2006, 12:27 PM
If the "logic" of this court case holds up and she gets the payout, I'm gonna have to sue my fraternity :D
fent
06-21-2006, 12:33 PM
If the "logic" of this court case holds up and she gets the payout, I'm gonna have to sue my fraternity :D

i think they'd say you were a willing particpant in any instance you might have been "taken advantage of" ;)
Spence
06-21-2006, 02:00 PM
This lawsuit won't prevail. They're hoping a deep-pockets company like Fox [which owns MySpace] will pay them to go away.
Spence
06-21-2006, 02:01 PM
i'm ashamed that this person is from TX...So are the Dixie Chicks.
fent
06-21-2006, 02:13 PM
So are the Dixie Chicks.

we kicked them out...i'm pretty sure that's included in one of the 400 amendments to the State constitution.
CNYSkinFan
06-21-2006, 02:20 PM
we kicked them out...i'm pretty sure that's included in one of the 400 amendments to the State constitution.
So everything is Big in texas, even the constitution?
fent
06-21-2006, 02:21 PM
So everything is Big in texas, even the constitution?

you betcha!