A website used by many young people for social networking has led to troubles for two more of them.
A 20-year-old employee at Elizabeth High School has been suspended pending an investigation that he used the site, MySpace.com, to solicit a young woman. And a 16-year-old Evergreen High School student faces criminal charges as a result of an investigation into content he posted on the site.
The Elizabeth School District is investigating a parent’s complaint against a member of that high school’s support staff that the man had sent sexually suggestive messages to his daughter, 15, via the site, said district Superintendent Rod Blunck. The man’s name wasn’t released.
The employee, who has worked at the school for about 18 months, at this point is the subject of a probe involving messages exchanged with just one girl, Blunck said. He said the matter came to the district’s attention Tuesday morning and the man was suspended immediately.
In Jefferson County, student Robbie Hill is being held at Mount View Detention Center and is charged with three misdemeanor counts of a juvenile in possession of a handgun, according to Pam Russell, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County district attorney’s office.
Jefferson County deputies searched Hill’s home Feb. 10 after receiving a tip from the teen’s school about pictures Hill posted of himself holding handguns.
“We believe the weapons were family weapons that he had access to,” said Jim Shires, Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesman.
Hill was suspended from Evergreen High School on Feb. 10 when photographs and comments posted on his personal profile on MySpace.com circulated throughout the school community, said Jefferson County school district spokesman Rick Kaufman.
Hill is the second student to face scrutiny recently for content published on MySpace.com.
Bryan Lopez, 16, was suspended from Littleton High School for comments posted about the school Feb. 19 on the website.
His suspension was cut short because the American Civil Liberties Union threatened a lawsuit over First Amendment rights and reached an agreement with the district to allow him to return to classes.
