Crimes against children must be prosecuted vigorously; but the personal lives of the most passionate vigilantes should be subject to the utmost scrutiny as well. Their knowledge of the psychology of their hate-objects may be drawn from their own personal longings. Such people have the potential to be a danger to society themselves. 4.5.2006 11:03am (link ) Rudi (mail ): Just a few comments. Where is the outrage that should be directed at the parents? How did this kid do his porn without the mother watch? No kid should have a computer in a room unattended, parents need to check Internet history when unattended. If this kid was making so much money (and computer gifts?) and doing lots of cocaine, didn't the mother notice. The fathers story is beyond belief, he hustled his son in Mexico. Where were the relatives? This kid parent's failure is criminal, I want to hear charges brought against them. 4.5.2006 11:18am (link ) Scott Ferguson (mail ) (www ): I second Rudi's comment. 4.5.2006 11:53am (link ) Rudi (mail ): After finally reading the NYT (Select sucks) I still stand by my post. I am middleaged and stuck in a time warp. Parents have a duty to atleast watch a little about what their kids are doing. The mother had a duty to call her sons friend's parents. One phone call would have blown off the lid of the situation. When the kid had problems at school, why didn't the mother call the school with any questions. As a non-believer, I smell Baptists in the California wind. Where was the mothers and grandmothers church friends when this happened? Why not a computer camp in California? This mother sounds a little delusional to me, the NYT story gave her a positive spin. 4.5.2006 12:17pm (link ) Shawn Liu (www ): Rudy, if you managed to catch the testimony on C-SPAN, you would have heard the reporter say that in his research, he was able to determine that the vast majority of these child porn star computers aren't in the kid's rooms, but in dining rooms, living rooms, and public spaces.

The problem isn't the lack of effort or concern from the mom. The problem is when the kids are more computer savy than the parents. You say check the net history? It takes three steps to erase the history. You say install protective software? That can easily be cricumvented with an operating system that runs right from a CD-ROM. And the mom DID take steps, up to removing computer hardware. And what happened? One of his predators actually rented an apartment for Justin complete with computer and cameras. For every responsible action the mom did, the predators out manuvered them.

When I was watching the testimony, I saw from the congressmen the same thing that you're doing: trying to find ways to blame either Justin or his mom for what happened. Because they're to blame for it, its there fault and it can't happen to "me". The mom did everything in her power to stop this, but she was no match for 1,500 technically savy men working simultaneously to keep Justin in the porn world.

That's the scary part which makes your reaction normal, that you try to do everything right and responsible as a good parent should, and you STILL lose.

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