2,116 of North Carolina's sex offenders found on MySpace

by zeet | March 10, 2009 at 03:26 pm

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State officials found the sex offenders after investigating similar cases: more than 5,000 sex offenders has been removed from Facebook in the last few years, and 90,000 offenders were removed from MySpace between 2008 and 2009. Sex offenders lurking on social networking sites is an increasing problem all over the World.

More than 2,100 registered North Carolina sex offenders were found on the social networking site MySpace, the state attorney general's office said Tuesday.

In response to a subpoena from state Attorney General Roy Cooper, "MySpace turned over the names, IP and e-mail addresses of 2,116 convicted North Carolina sex offenders found on its social networking Web site," Cooper's office said in a written statement.

Cooper has requested similar information from Facebook, another popular social networking site, the statement said.

MySpace has told North Carolina authorities that the sex offenders it identified have been removed from the site.

North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation is sharing the sex offenders' information with all 100 sheriffs in the state, Cooper's office said.

"It's no secret that child predators are on these Web sites," Cooper said in the statement. "Turning over information about these predators to law enforcement helps, but MySpace, Facebook and other social networks need to do much more to protect kids online."