I dont have kids, but I deffinately think it's reckless of the parents not to have at least slightly monitored her game time.
The fact that this happened for 'a number of weeks', and still flew under the radar is just rediculous. To totally miss your 11 year old daughter sending nude pics with her cellphone or girating infront of a web cam means that you've taken absolutely no interest in protecting the child at all.

Men like this one from kentucky are the real reason that we have and need hard and damaging sexual offender laws.

And parents like this are the reason we should have more stringent child neglect laws.

I think that gaming online can be very enjoyable and safe for kids as long as the parents sit down with them and educate them on being safe in an anonymous online environment.

Chop his nuts off.

I have had lengthy discussions with my 12 yr old son to ensure he is educated on internet safety.

Also, my friends have a 13yr old daughter, I have spent much time discussing with them over a bunch of beers the concerns they face as she is on many of these sites.

Education is the key… the children NEED to be aware of internet predators, they are naive and don’t even see these freaks coming.

Pedobear? Seriously?

You hear so many stories today about this kind of thing that all stem from clueless parents. Sometimes I really think we should license people to become parents. The government tries to control so many aspects of our lives these days (some even banning trans fats because they think you're too stupid to know they're bad for you), but we'll let anyone have a kid and be in complete control of their lives until they turn 18.

Whats with the bear?

there really should be a law against this that condemds these guys to jail and castration!

the bear is a Pedo sex symbol, "Pedobear" is his name, chases after hentai type material.

Anywho, this of course is wrong in every way. Its people like that, that force us to really watch our children. Of course I do not have kids, but I agree with the first poster, the parents should take more interest in their daughters safety because weeks of that? without the parents knowing? hmm. In todays world you fear about having a child due to the amount of ways a twisted man/woman can contact your child.

Of course the guy is sick and should be punished accordingly. But my first reaction is: Where are the parents? How does an 11 year old have time to "perform" for someone and upload these performances without the parents having a clue? That is amazing.

I personally dont even think that much monitoring is necessary. All you really have to do is to explain some ground rules and then check in once in a while to see if those rules are being met.

Limit the child's communication tools to something that you know how to use so that you can limit certain types access if necessary.

Yes, the parents should have realized over "a number of weeks" that something was going on. But what bothers me more than that is that the girl thought those actions were ok.
I've got a daughter who is going to turn 11 in a couple of months. I know she's not perfect and does some stuff she knows she isn't supposed to, but at the same time, I know damn well she knows better than to do something as stupid as this!

LOL, I will always find the picture they attact to these articles Hilarious!

Sadly there are sick people all over the world. The parents do have to be involved and this is what happens with too much freedom with a minor, and a predator. There's probably a lot more of this going on than is going to get caught. Don't get me started on the people playing Uno on XBL.

Im wondering in the first place why does an 11-year old even know about sexual conduct? Let alone sending nude pictures to ANYONE.

Castrate him and put him in a slave camp. Better yet, just havest the guy's organs. He's worthless.

If one of my friends showed me a picture of an 11 year old girl he'd convinced to do something stupid on the internet I'd beat him half to death and call the cops.

I am amazed to find that this happened on the PSN if it was myspace, facebook, or some other site that enables the easy targeting of children I wouldn't be surprised but PSN?! Damn pedophiles are everywhere.

Honestly if this happened to my son I wouldn't call the police. I would have my son arrange a meeting and Mr. Pedophile will never be seen again.

Alright people. Let's look at the situation.

She did something for awhile and realized that he wasn't reacting the way she was hoping. then she feels pretty strongly embarrassed.

It's not a pleasant feeling, I know.

But it's not terrible, and it was her decision.
How many years are they putting this guy away for?

This country is ridiculous.

there will always be creeps out there. Parents, Hello?

I think that this kind of thing will always happen. There is no realistic way to monitor your kids and what they do, unless you watch them play the game. PSN and Xbox Live should have parental features that inhibit certain types of communication, the entirety of the blame can't fall in the parents' hands, even though it really should.

I work in child welfare and you would never be able to prove neglect on this family. The only way you could probably prove neglect is if the parents knew what she was doing but did nothing to stop her. Which is possible. But I do understand what you are saying. Someone might need to take a look at this family and offer them some assistance.

LMAO! I love seeing comments like these.

MrBradley 03/16/2009 10:31 PM
In my country the girls of the ethnic minorities start having children at that age.
Don't get me wrong but neither God nor Nature meant that people should have children at age over 30. I am personally not married and I do not have children and there is not chance for another five years for me. And now I start wondering if I should ever have children because the chances that they are born sick are increasing with each passing year.

BTW I just don't get it. What such people find attractive at naked children. A woman should at least look like a woman to be attractive.

And my last point is that Internet is not that big deal. Real dangers lurk in the streets. As if before Internet there were no crimes...

I think perhaps the perception of parenting is retarded. It's not simply babysitting, as far as I understand it. Whatever happened to the novel idea that perhaps one should teach the child something? The kid should be monitored, sure, but how about teaching the kid to hold herself accountable instead of "because mommy said so"? Restriction without teaching the kid accountability and promoting understanding is a terrible stopgap solution that has never worked. It's all about attitude, not just about how little or how much restriction one should place on their young. Kids are more intelligent than we give them credit for.

"Im wondering in the first place why does an 11-year old even know about sexual conduct? Let alone sending nude pictures to ANYONE."

I don't mean to be abrasive, but are you truly that naive? Perhaps my development in this area was slightly faster than normal, but I was well attuned to sexual elements by that age. I had a pretty good knowledge of sex by age 8. I'm not sure how old you are, but perhaps you've forgotten what it's like to be at that age, because children, however naive, are not as restricted in their understanding as we might understand them to be.

I think what people are getting at here is that this girl has absolutely no sense of morals or right and wrong. How is it that she felt it was OK to take off her clothes and send naked pictures of herself in the first place? Where are her values and sense of decency?

These are incredibly bad parents, her actions show that she has learned absolutely nothing about right and wrong. Why hasn't her dad explained to her that boys will look at her, but will not respect her if she gets naked for them like that? Should these pictures get out, she'll be called a ho and slut by anyone who sees them. Why didn't she learn this from her parents?

Notice how we have to bring up the issue of parenting, no where is that mentioned in the article, it's as if all this occurred in a vacuum, that's why there are so many more bad parents today. They can get away with bad parenting and escape the social condemnation that would have been leveled at them in the past. These parents should be condemned and blasted for not teaching their kids right and wrong, for not protecting their children from harm.

The parents do have some responibility in this issue. However, I don't think that the parents didn't teach her about right and wrong(they might have not though) because learning morals and actually choosing to follow them are different things. Parents might do all they can to teach a child about what is good and what is bad, but it is the child who chooses whether he or she will act accordingly

The parents do have some responibility in this issue. However, I don't think that the parents didn't teach her about right and wrong(they might have not though) because learning morals and actually choosing to follow them are different things. Parents might do all they can to teach a child about what is good and what is bad, but it is the child who chooses whether he or she will act accordingly

The parents do have some responibility in this issue. However, I don't think that the parents didn't teach her about right and wrong(they might have not though) because learning morals and actually choosing to follow them are different things. Parents might do all they can to teach a child about what is good and what is bad, but it is the child who chooses whether he or she will act accordingly

You certainly can do so. At least with XBox Live, you can restrict forms of communication, voice, video, text, etc. It's right in the parental controls section, which the XBox360 does a pretty good job of explaining to a parent how to restrict with a tutorial. I'm not quite sure about the PSN, although I would think there would at least be something similar.

The parents would know how to do this as well, if they sat down for 15 minutes with the console and learned a bit about it, before just giving it to their child and saying "Enjoy!". Or, in the 360's case, if parents would even just read the manual they'd know how to restrict access. My 13 year old son's XBox Live account is restricted from using video messages/chat with a password set by me.

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