Family Sues MySpace after Teen Suicide

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Submission + - Family Sues MySpace after Teen Suicide (dailytech.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Cow on Thursday December 13, 2007 @07:34PM

Anonymous Cow writes: By now just about everyone has heard the story of the teenager who hanged herself after receiving nasty messages on her MySpace from a parent posing as a teenage boy. In June 2006 another teenage girl committed suicide after being sexually assaulted by a man she met on MySpace. DailyTech reports the family of the assaulted suicide victim is suing MySpace, claiming the site knew about prior sexual assaults by predators using the site and failed to implement security measures to prevent assaults from happening again.

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