We all know that the Internet, in addition to being a useful medium to disseminate information, often acts as the linchpin in society's apparent descent into insanity. This is one of those times.

On Monday, in a suburb of Detroit (the capital of all things smarmy), Aimee L. Sword, 36, pled guilty to having sex with the biological son she gave up for adoption, whom she later tracked down on the Internet via Facebook.

I knew Facebook was the devil.According to the Detroit Free Press, Sword gave her son up for adoption when he was only a few days old. Police say that in 2008, she began using Facebook to locate her son, who was 14 at the time. They had a relationship that ultimately culminated in sexual intimacy. The boy testified they had sex in Waterford Township and Grand Rapids.

"When she saw this boy, something just touched off in her -- and it wasn't a mother-son relationship, it was a boyfriend-girlfriend relationship," the newspaper quoted attorney Mitchell Ribitwer as saying. "Aimee's searching for a reason why this happened. She can't understand it. She's going to get some counseling."

I don't think there is enough counseling in the world.

It is unclear, at this time, whether the teenager knew he was having sex with his own mother.

I think I just threw up a little in my mouth.

Sword apologized at her sentencing. She was sentenced from 9 to 30 years in prison.

With the focus on protecting children from Internet predators, who would have ever thought the predators would be their own parents?

I miss the '80s.