Miss America poses as teenager in pedophile sting operation

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2007

NEW YORK (AFP) — Miss America has joined New York area police in the fight against pedophiles who prey on underaged girls, acting as bait in a sting operation that has so far yielded 11 suspects, police said Thursday.

Blonde beauty Lauren Nelson, 20, a former Miss Teen Oklahoma, loaned police photographs of herself as a teenager and posed as a teenaged girl to lure would-be child predators cruising the Internet for sex with minors.

Four men had sexually explicit chats online with police officers posing as 13- and 14-year-old girls using Nelson's photographs and turned up for a rendezvous at a house rigged with television cameras.

Instead of meeting their underaged prey, the four were met by Nelson and a group of police officers.

Seven others had also...

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