When 15-year-old Kristin Helms committed suicide in 2006, she blamed Kiley Bowers, the 27-year-old man who traveled across state lines to meet her. Her parents blame MySpace — in fact, they're suing [1] the Internet site for their role in the tragedy.

Though Helms and Bowers didn't meet on MySpace, they did use it to communicate, and Helms's parents called for the policing [2] of sites for sexual predators last Summer. Now, they're taking MySpace on in court.

To learn more about this case as well as another MySpace tragedy, .

While Kiley Bowers is serving a nine-year federal prison term in Texas for traveling across state lines to have sex with a minor and transporting child pornography, it's clear that Helms's family needs more — that is, closure in the form of making the Internet safe for minors. I can't help but be reminded of the awful story of Megan Meier [3], who was taunted by a peer's parent with a fake MySpace profile.

How much responsibility do you think a social networking site should take, both in the event of a tragedy where it's a major player and on a level of prevention?

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