Most everyone probably has read the news at http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1552487/20070215/id_0.jhtml on the dismissal of lawsuit from the parents of a 13-year-old girl who lied about her age to get on MySpace, met a 19-year-old, went out with him, and got raped.
In a way, the judge's ruling and dismissal of the case is commonsense. It sure is tragic for a child to be raped. I have a girl of my own, and I certainly would hope and pray that tragedy like that would not befall on any child.
Having said that, for the child to go out lying about it (with or without the parents' knowledge, but probably without) and get hurt, instead of suing that bastard who raped their child, they decided to sue MySpace?? Sure, that guy probably is being prosecuted already, but instead of admitting their own shortcoming, that they failed to monitor their child, they sue someone else for not doing that job?!?!?! That argument is just unbelievably irresponsible.
This country definitely has one too many lawyers, chasing around too few cases, thus getting creative. If the parents of this child want money, they would probably get it faster and much easier if they grant some TV interviews or go on Oprah's show to admit their own fallacy.
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