A 31-year-old Australian woman has been arrested in the United States for allegedly trying to kidnap a 17-year-old boy she had met playing role-playing game World of Warcraft on the Internet.
United States investigators say Tamara Broome encouraged the boy to leave his home in North Carolina to join her in Australia.
The chief of detectives in the city of Greenville, Lee Moore, says the pair began a relationship while playing the popular online multiplayer game.
“The best that we can discover is that they wanted to meet,” he said.
“To be honest with you, if someone were to fly from here to Australia or them to here, there’s got to be some kind of romance somewhere.”
Detective Moore says the pair had been communicating for about a year.
“What we understand she was trying to do was to get him to leave the country and go to Australia to meet her,” he said.
Police have seized a laptop computer and charged Broome with attempting to abduct a child.
Ms Broome
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