In a recent Associated Press article, AP writer Gary Robertson wrote that MySpace.com has found more than 29,000 registered sex offenders with profiles on their Web site, up from 7,000 profiles they reported in May.

MySpace declined to comment on the numbers reported but instead focused only on the fact that the profiles had been removed. Hemanshu Nigam, MySpace chief security officer, said in a prepared statement, “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.”

The question is what lead is he referring to? Allowing children to create profiles without parental permission or age verification? Or is it allowing users of any age to interact with each other? Hmmn, is it any surprise that the number of offenders found on MySpace more than quadrupled since May?