Miss America to Testify in Sex Sting

[WillyT]

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HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. — An undercover sex sting that used Miss America as bait appeared to be in trouble until the beauty queen said Tuesday she changed her mind and agreed to testify against the men she helped arrest.

Lauren Nelson, 20, of Lawton, Okla., worked with police in Suffolk County to target would-be Internet sexual predators, taped for an episode of the TV show "America's Most Wanted."

She posed as a teenager and lured men into chatting online and meeting her at a home, where police and crews were waiting. The online profile included photographs of her as a teenager.

Eleven men were arrested in the sting, and the show aired Saturday.

Suffolk District Attorney Thomas Spota said Nelson had told prosecutors she did not plan to return to Long Island to testify. In a statement, he called on her Tuesday to "meet her civic responsibility and testify as a witness to a crime."

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Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20070501/undercover-beauty

Is it me, or is this shit starting to get waaaaay out of hand???

:wtf:

[Botany]

1. So "it stings" after having sex w/ Miss America?

:rofl:

So Miss America is going on line in the hopes of trying to lure so poor
slob into getting busted? :grr:

[Der Blaue Engel]

2. Some poor pedophile, you mean

I'm not entirely sure how I feel about these sting operations, but let's not pretend these are poor little innocents who were lured into becoming pedophiles.

[WillyT]

3. True... But Getting Miss America, Who Is 20, To Pose As A Teen..

To entrap creepezoids so it can be sold to MSNBC for ratings dollars...

Why don't we just bring back the Christians vs. The Lions???

That would be a ratings winner for sure!!!

It's the prostitution to stop prostitution that's making me ill.

Serious issues do NOT need to be Geraldo-ed!!!

:puke:

[Botany]

4. But if she is using her picture to "trap" these slugs ...

.... that is wrong. She is over 18 and looks very much like a "big girl."

[lvx35]

6. pics of her when she was a"teenager" were used. nt

[Der Blaue Engel]

7. What I saw on Countdown indicated it was pics of her as a teen

And she was listing her age as a teen...so even if she looked older, if she said she was a teen and they wanted to have sex with her, I have a hard time feeling sorry for them.

:shrug:

[lvx35]

5. It depends on what "teenager" means if you ask me

I mean Britney Spears was a sex symbol at 17, if you can't see that you're in denial of her entire marketing strategy:
http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/li37.shtml
In my opinion if we're hunting people that are going for 17 year old spears types you are not targeting pedophiles very well. The world is full of real child molesters we should be nailing, not bating guys hot for Britney Spears.

The video of the above song if anybody still doesn't get it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sy_pQoIQM4g

[Der Blaue Engel]

8. Britney was definitely marketed to pedophiles

Ugh.

I'm not saying it's a good use of resources to go after these guys, but I still feel no pity for them. Adult men who go trolling for hot teenagers... :puke:

[lvx35]

9. Its just tricky, because the lines are fuzzy around that age

What about the Beatles: "She was just 17, if you know what I mean:"

http://www.songmeanings.net/lyric.php?lid=816

Should the Beatles have been jailed as pedophiles? Of course not, we all know they were reasonably young handsome adults many a teenage girl yearned for. And there are loads of songs like that. "She's only 17" "Sixteen Candles" etc. going way back in our culture. But if the song said "She was just 11 and I fell in love with her..." the Beatles would have meet a different fate. We all know that's bad, the lines aren't fuzzy.


I just hope the law enforcement here is using bait like that without fuzzy lines.

[geek_sabre]

10. She was posing as a 14 year old...

nothing fuzzy about that.

[lvx35]

11. Good, its no Britney spears in that case.

I didn't know that. But still, even that, with a 19 year old adult isn't in the same space as child molesters. I'm talking about 50 year olds with 5 year olds. This may seem like I'm being choosy, but a search in my area for registered sex offenders returns 3, and 2 of them the crime is child molestation, not statutory rape. So child molestation is happening quite often, and the offenders shown are older men.