Real Life Crime Fighting Hottie
And yeah, I think she should start wearing a spandex body suit. Miss America 2007 Lauren Nelson’s national platform was internet safety for children. And she is already doing quite a bit to make the world safer for kids. She teamed up with John Walsh of America’s Most Wanted and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children to collar a bunch of scumbags who troll the Internet trying to molest children.
From the AP here:
Miss America can add crime fighter to her resume. Lauren Nelson recently went undercover with police in New York for a sting targeting sexual predators.
Officers with Suffolk County’s computer crimes unit created an online profile of a 14-year-old girl that included photographs of Nelson as a teenager.
“I got to chat online with the predators and made phone calls, too,” Nelson said by phone from Atlantic City, N.J. “The Suffolk County Police Department was there the whole time.”
The operation was filmed for a segment of “America’s Most Wanted” that will air Saturday on Fox. Police spokesman Tim Motz said the operation was ongoing and declined to comment Tuesday evening.
At least four men were arrested and face charges, said Avery Mann, a spokesman for the show. Another six men agreed to meet Nelson, of Lawton, Okla., he said.
Nelson, 20, posed as a young teen online and went into chat rooms, where she said men would begin sending her instant messages asking her how old she was and where she lived.
“I would say I’m a 14-year-old female from Long Island. Sometimes they would say, ‘You’re too young, sorry,’ which is exactly what needs to happen, but some would continue chatting. “It would only take a matter of time before it got pretty explicit.”
“The story was that they knew I was 14, and I told them I was cutting school to meet with them,” Nelson said. “I stood outside on the porch, and I would say, ‘Hi’ to them and wave them inside.”
Once she entered the home with the suspect, Nelson said, she left the room, and police and “America’s Most Wanted” host John Walsh confronted the suspect.
Nelson, whose platform issue is Internet safety for children, said she was eager to participate.
“As many as we caught on that day, there are a lot more out there,” she said. “It’s nice to know that they were chatting with police officers and me rather than a 14- or 15-year-old girl.”
John Walsh lost his own son, most likely to a sex predator. I want to see him confront scumbags like this on AMW.
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