By Gary Long
The Brownsville Herald

The attorney who prosecutes crimes against children for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Brownsville has this advice for parents: Know where your children go on the Internet, what their passwords are, and do monitor their activity — especially on Facebook and MySpace.

“Monitoring your children’s activities on the computer is not spying on your children,” Megan Paulson, the assistant U.S. attorney in Brownsville assigned to crimes against children and who has prosecuted such cases exclusively for the past eight years, told an audience of Brownsville Independent School District parents Wednesday morning.

“It is spying on the Internet predators trying to access your kids.”

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