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Will MySpace Reporting Help Protect Kids?

By Lependorf & Silverstein

With recent news about New Jersey and other states brokering a cooperation deal with MySpace to help protect kids from online predators come questions. Will MySpace reporting really help protect kids? Or will it just provide another venue for false accusation and entrapment? Given the recent national hysteria about New Jersey sexual predators, including the wildly popular Dateline ?To Catch a Predator? series, the answer is not yet clear. Here at Lependorf & Silverstein, we have seen all too many false accusations when it comes to sex crimes. While it?s easy to click a button and claim that somebody has offended or abused you, such accusations are often made out of anger or without basis. What people don?t realize is that a sex abuse claim, even if it is proven invalid, can completely decimate the accused person?s reputation, relationships, and job prospects...continue to full post

Full post as published by New Jersey Criminal Defense Blog on January 29, 2008 (boomark / email).