June 21, 2006
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We all know how much I despise irresponsible parents (January 15, 2006 entry)...but this has just left me seething with rage:
Teen, mom sue MySpace.com for $30 million
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.
No! No you stupid bitch! It's not MySpace's fault, it's YOUR fault you signed up on the site! It's YOUR fault you gave a stranger your personal information! It's YOUR fault you put yourself in the position to allow this stranger near you and sexually assault you! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT.
This lawsuit is a f*cking joke, right? Because unless MySpace was in the practice of forcing parents to give their children free access to computers and threatening to kill kids if they didn't make themselves available to pedophiles--there is NO WAY anyone is going to award this mother $30 million for being a BAD PARENT.
But let's give this crazy ass the benefit of the doubt. This mother must have some sort of weird definition of "parent" that I have not heard of--one that views parents as mere incubators for embryos, and society as a community joined together in the collective effort of protecting the human race from extinction.
Umm..no. Maybe on planet "I am a sh*tty parent", but not on Earth. I am not going to bear the responsibility of raising someone else's children because it wasn't my choice for them to have those kids--just like it wasn't MySpace's choice for that dumbass to give a pedophile access to her whereabouts. If the teenager wants to sue someone, she should sue her mother for giving her the freedom to go on websites that have been reported as being buffet lines for sexual predators. The fact that scumbags troll the internet for kids is OLD NEWS. OLD F*CKING NEWS.
I can't even articulate how angering this article makes me--it's just unfathomable that there are people out there who willingly relinquish all responsibility for their children's actions in an effort to alleviate their own guilt. Spare us the bullsh*t and just admit that you f*cked up. And the only reward you're going to get is the lesson that so many parents already know: don't let your kids use the computer without supervision. I know this, and I don't even have kids!
Comments (2)
take a deep breath and calm down
we live in a frivolous law suit culture, what can you do? it's a surprise that some lawyer's willing to take this case... whatever...
"I am no toing to bear the responsibility of raising someone else's children because it wasn't my choice for them to have those kids"
so you won't adopt kids?
People love to just sue rather than take responsibility for their own actions.