LA TIMES - June 12 - Skout has temporarily shut down its services for teens amid a series of rape allegations involving its underage users. "Until we can design better protections, we are temporarily shutting down the under-18 community," founder Christian Wiklund wrote. In the last couple of weeks, three men ranging in age from 21 to 37 have been accused of posing as teenagers on the app's teen forum and allegedly luring boys and girls ages 12 to 15 to sexually assault them, according to a New York Times report. The men, all currently facing criminal charges, allegedly used Skout to contact minors.
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Perhaps eventually credit card companies will attach age information so sites can correctly identify people's ages when signing up.
Posted by: Mark Brooks | Jun 14, 2012 at 02:35 PM