When you join VMK, you agree to the VMK values. Anyone who breaks them should be punished, whether or not their parents are aware of their actions. Personally, I thinked his friends deserved what they got. It will teach them a valuable lesson that they may have not recieved otherwise, even if the punishment is harsh. And I agree, some parents are entirely unaware of what their children are doing, and that's just plain bad parenting. If the parents can't teach their kids Internet-savvy knowledge, it's gonna be the VMK staff with a ten year ban to do it for them.
~*HorsePrincess*~