Jun 19, 2007 10:30 am US/Eastern
153 MySpace Users Id'd As N.H. Sex Offenders
CONCORD, N.H. (CBS) ―
New Hampshire Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says 153 registered sex offenders in the state have been identified as establishing profiles on the Internet site MySpace.
Nationally, MySpace has indicated that more than 7,000 registered sex offenders have been identified as having had established profiles on the site. Each of the identified profiles has been removed by MySpace.
Ayotte's office had subpoenaed the subscriber registration information from MySpace. It's one of six states that pursed the information. It has provided the New Hampshire names to the Department of Corrections.
The Probation and Parole Department has been asked to determine if any of the people identified by MySpace have violated any of the terms of their probation or parole.
Ayotte's office also is demanding that MySpace require parental permission for children to be on the social networking site.
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