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Miss America to Testify in Sex Sting

Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:58:35 PM

 Miss America Lauren Nelson talks with Sen. Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., right, at the Washington Press Club Foundation Dinner on in this file photo from Feb. 6, 2007, in Washington. Nelson can add Long Island crimefighter to her resume. The Lawton, Okla., beauty recently went undercover with police in Suffolk County and participated in a sting operation targeting would-be sexual predators. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke-File)HAUPPAUGE, N.Y. (AP) - 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.


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