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Sex Offenders Snared in MySpace Web

Networking site turns over user IDs in predator parole busts

By Colleen Barry,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 15, 2007 6:46 AM CDT

(Newser) – Texas officials using ID information ceded by MySpace have nabbed seven sex offenders trolling the online networking site. Six were arrested for violating parole, which barred them from using the internet, and another had failed to register as a sex offender with the local police....   Read full story »

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