25 year old man meets 13 year old girl over the Internet, presumably via chatrooms, personals, etc. They meet, have sex a few times and she dies during one such encounter. He's "convicted of manslaughter":http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=1235578&nav=3YeXFGog, faces 30 years in prison and has the gall to try to reduce that sentence by claiming she wanted "rough sex". Yeah right, a "13 year old virgin wanted rough sex":http://www.wtnh.com/Global/story.asp?S=1265290&nav=3YeXFeFf that led to her death. Pull the other one.
There seems to be very little discussion about how much blame lies in the hands of Christina Long's parents. Whenever bad shit happens to a child, a minor - it is ALWAYS, without exception, partly or wholely the fault of the parent(s). In this case, its hard to believe that her parents couldn't "monitor her behaviour":http://www.netnanny.com/ on the 'Net. They should have checked on her, made random spots to make sure she was "using the 'Net in a healthy manner":http://www.rider.edu/~suler/psycyber/getneed.html. The fact that she had the freedom to meet and build a relationship with this man proves that they didn't monitor her; and even if they did, it was certainly not enough.
We are responsible for our children. What they do, and certainly what happens to them. If you're not ready to take that on your shoulders, use condoms until you are.
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