Report: Thousands of Sex Offenders on MySpace


	Report: Thousands of Sex Offenders on MySpace

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5-14-2007 6:40 PM

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5-15-2007 9:13 AM

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BOSTON -- Thousands of convicted sex offenders have registered for profiles on social networking Web site MySpace, posing a risk to children who are among the site's most avid users, eight U.S. attorneys general said on Monday.
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Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and counterparts in seven states called on the company, owned by media tycoon Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., to hand over the offenders' names and addresses.
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Sources told the attorneys general that MySpace had discovered thousands of sex offenders on its site in an internal investigation, Blumenthal said. He did not give the identity of the sources.
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"Our objective is to assure that these convicted sex offenders are removed from this site and other social networking sites," Blumenthal said by telephone after holding a news conference in Hartford, Connecticut.
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About 100 million people worldwide use the fast-growing MySpace service.
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