Unfortunately, the parents bear much of the responsibility here. They are ultimately responsible for allowing their daughter to have the MySpace account in the first place, and every warning sign they mention in this article should have been seen by them BEFORE this whole incident unfolded.
C'mon, no time for that. Too busy. Drop the orphans off at the kiddie kennel. Chase the almighty dollar. More money means a better life for ... the children. (Yeah, that's it, for the children.)
A bigger pie means we all get a bigger slice. Happiness is a house full of stuff.
They are ultimately responsible for allowing their daughter to have the MySpace account in the first place,
-But they monitored her use and checked up on content, and gave real-time advice on the issues. This is way more than 99.8 percent of parents do, I don’t think they were being irresponsible. The child did not have the password, had to ask for access.
True, they did not realize that they were faced with a team- a team!- of malicious adults but that’s way beyond normal.