Another blow to personal responsibility
The stupid are resorting to their standard tactic: Blame somebody else for their mistakes. Teen, mom sue MySpace.com for $30 million.
It's a classic story. Girl, underage, meats boy, supposedly underage, on the Internet. This time, it happens to be through MySpace.com. Girl gets invited out by boy, boy turns out to be a man, who them molests her.
I have only three questions for this witness:
1. Where were the parents throughout all this?
2. Where were the parents throughout all this??
3. Where were the parents throughout all this???
This is not the first time this has happened via MySpace, so where is the parent saying something like "Don't meet people you meet there, no matter how nice they seem, without me." So the parent fails to do their job, and the teen fails the learning curve because she doesn't believe it could happen to her.
Yeah. Right.
So now they are suing the only entity with deep pockets in the equation, MySpace. MySpace was designed to do what it is doing, share information between people. Who you invite in to your personal stuff is just like inviting them into your house. You don't do so until you've gotten to know them. And no one is as they appear to be on-line.
So I say to throw the lawsuit out, or let it go to trial, because to settle now would be to open the floodgates for a thousand other cases like this.
Suing has become a pastime in this country. And the trial lawyers aren't helping matters any. I think we should charge court costs and attorneys fees to the loser, or if the case is thrown out. That way you can introduce some risk in just throwing a lawsuit out there and hoping it sticks to the wall.