I have a hot tip for the mother here: how about you actually pay attention to what you kid is doing online?

A 14-year-old Travis County girl who said she was sexually assaulted by a Buda man she met on MySpace.com sued the popular social networking site Monday for $30 million, claiming that it fails to protect minors from adult sexual predators.

The lawsuit claims that the Web site does not require users to verify their age and calls the security measures aimed at preventing strangers from contacting users younger than 16 "utterly ineffective."

The best "security measure" possible would have been the mom actually paying attention. Computer and net access are no different than other activities - monitoring usage is no different than monitoring offline activities.