A big I-Team investigation uncovers a new way sex offenders get access to kids online.

They're setting up shop on MySpace.

Millions of teens use the site to meet new people and make friends. But we found it also allows registered sex offenders unrestricted access to those same teens.

Aaron Diamant, our investigator, was stunned by how many we found online, and how easy it was to find them.

They show off on MySpace, and show up on a different Web site: the Wisconsin sex offender registry.

"I think it's very dangerous," says Chris Liegel of the Milwaukee District Attorney's office. "Here we have someone, who has a proven record of committing sexual offenses who is out there, potentially, trying to develop new victims."

Just halfway through the seventh grade, Jessica Headson already has a personal webpage on MySpace where family and friends can look in on her life.

"This is my friend Taylor. This is my friend Destiny," she shows us. Jessica has a lot of candid pictures and personal information on her page.

She limits who can see it to the people she knows.

She also worries about the millions of other kids out there who use MySpace to meet people they don't know. "You hear stories all the time about how kids that get sexual predators start talking to them, and they just listen, and they think that they're someone like a really good friend. They say what if I miss out on this good friendship, and they never think that things could happen to them."

She's not paranoid, just cautious, because kids aren't the only ones looking for friends on MySpace -- or using sexy pictures to attract them.

"This looks like a 14-year-old boy's site, doesn't it?" Liegel points out. The site is full of sexually suggestive images of young women.

But it doesn't belong to a 14-year-old boy. Not even close.

The I-team traced it back to 32-year-old Ken Relish -- a registered sex offender in Racine County.

The pictures the I-team found on his Web site raised more than just eyebrows with the District Attorney's office.

"I imagine a lot of parents would be very disturbed to see this if they through their child might stumble upon this guy on MySpace," Liegel told us.

In the mid-90's, Relish spent more than three years in jail for sexually assaulting a young women. Now, Relish spends time on MySpace.

So we stopped by his home outside Burlington to see if he'd spend a little time with Aaron Diamant on camera.

"Do you think it's appropriate, some of the sexual content we see, given your history?" Diamant asked.

Relish responded, "Well, I just put it on as a joke. I don't really even go on it anymore."

"You don't go on it anymore?" Aaron asked?

Denial, again. "I don't really even go on it."

"It says you logged on recently," Aaron pointed out. Relish said it was just to check messages-- and added he's married with kids.

But check out what he said about a picture posted on his page showing a toddler reading an adult magazine.

"There are sites that are worse than mine," Relish said.

"That doesn't make it right, does it?" Aaron asked.

"It doesn't make it wrong," Relish said.

"Would you want your kids looking at that stuff?" the I-Team pressed.

"No," Relish conceded.

Still, there are no safeguards to keep kids like Jessica Headson from landing on Relish's webpage.

And it's not just that one offender. The I-Team found two dozen local sex offenders who have pages on MySpace. To find them, we plugged in names from the sex offender registry into a "search box" on MySpace. If the name, age, and location from a MySpace page matched the registry, we added it to our list."

We found page after page with pictures and comments about violence, drug use, and sex. All of it posted by registered sex offenders living in the Milwaukee area.

"Oh my gosh... It's terrible that people will go on here, because you never know what's going on in their mind and it's just terrible," Headson thinks.

Her principal, Jaym Hartman of St. Agnes School, worries about that, too. Hartmann said, "I think to myself, how do I fix this? How do I make sure that our children don't fall victim to these people."

People like Shane Kowal, a registered sex offender living in Milwaukee.

Kowal swears he only set it up to find fellow snowboarders.

In 2000, Kowal pleaded guilty to third degree sexual assault in Waukesha County. The victim was under 18.

"How do you know you'll never be tempted like that again?" we asked.

"I have a beautiful wife that I will never cheat on. I want to have kids. I want to have a beautiful life and I will not go back. I know that in my heart deep in my heart. And it hurts when anybody thinks that I'm going to go back. I care about my family and I care about my friends. I will not go back," Kowal said tearfully.

So he says, but why are so many sex offenders willing to take the risk?

Sex offender Relish has an idea. "Some people do it just for stupidity. Probably wasn't the brightest move. I do think you're right about that."

It forces kids like Jessica Headson to surf smart. "Anybody out there that thinks, well there's so many people out there, how could this happen to me? Don't believe that, because you need to take safety to the right level," Headson explained.

A level of safety that will keep kids and registered sex offenders from sharing the same space on MySpace.

Both of the offenders we confronted in our story have taken down their MySpace pages. But there are plenty of other registered sex offenders in Wisconsin and around the country that still have free reign of sites.