Mom lost fight with daughter

Our local news interviewed the mom, who "lost the fight with my daughter and she was allowed to put the Internet computer in her room." This fifteen year old was not only abducted, kidnapped and raped, but mentally tortured as well. She managed to escape and survive (against the statistics). The question that keeps swirling in my thoughts is, what was the mom thinking? My only assumption was that she was clueless to the dangers that her daughter was exposed to online. It does not seem possible that with all of the exposure of internet crime in the media that this mom was uninformed. I have no answer, only the deep conviction that word must get out that the Internet is as dangerous as leaving your door unlocked and the neon sign with a bright red arrow that says, "Welcome, pedophiles, deviants and perverts my child is sleeping in the second room on the right.