MySpace.com found more than 29,000 sex offenders

MySpace.com found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders on the site. Officials said Tuesday that it is four times the number they found only two months ago.

“I am absolutely appalled because the number has grown so exponentially over so short of time with no explanation,” said Richard Blumenthal, a Connecticut Attorney General, who requested sex offender data from the company.

In May, after MySpace began sharing sex offender information, social networking website said they already removed 7,000 sex offender profiles using a database they created.

There are a total of about 180 million profiles on the site, most of which are children. North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper is trying to get a state law passed that requires children to have to have parental permission before they can create a MySpace profile. The adult would have to be identified by submitting personal information before their child could have access to creating a profile.

“All we’re doing is giving parents the right to make a choice whether their children can go online,” Copper said.

MySpace chief security officer Hemanshu Nigam said, “We’re pleased that we’ve successfully identified and removed registered sex offenders from our site and hope that other social networking sites follow our lead.”

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