Personally, I'm worried about the friend that reported all this. I haven't looked at the news article, but if the girl wanted to fool around with the guy, and sees her world coming crumbling down, she's probably going to take it out on the friend. I'm sure at some point, she'll realize what her friend did was the best thing possible, but the poor friend is going to need therapy herself, I'm sure, just because of the brutality of betraying your friend when your 12 and the consequences that will probably come with it.

This is the type of situation that scares me, though. How do you parent well enough to feel secure that this wouldn't happen to your kid? Or that your kid would be the friend calling adults about the situation? What do you do, don't give them cell phones or computers until they're in college? Where is the line between letting your kid have some privacy and freedom and completely protecting them? How do you shelter them but at the same time prepare them for the real world? How do you convey the consequences of these types of things instead of just saying "Don't do it, it's bad, trust me" at a time when they're rebelling against their parents?

Some of you are blaming the parents, some the kid, some the schools. (It is universally agreed that the 30 year old man holds the largest portion of the blame). So... How would you prevent this? Is it more important to figure that out instead of trying to put blame on someone?