42-year-old mother of four, Lauri Price, seduced a 16-year-old, who she flew to Canada to sleep with, where it is lawful to have sexual relations with a youth of that age.
16-year-old Andrew Kane and 42-year-old Lauri Price
However, Price seduced him online whilst playing the video game "World of Warcraft" and did so from her Houston home in America. As such, she violated U.S. law and has been appropriately arrested.
Houston mom accused of soliciting Canadian teenager online
Posted on January 6, 2010 at 6:38 PM - HOUSTON-A 42-year-old Houston mother was behind bars Tuesday, accused of having a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.
Lauri Price is charged with three counts of solicitation of a child over the Internet.
Authorities say she struck up a relationship online with a boy who lives in Canada. They met in the fall of 2008 while playing the popular video game "World of Warcraft," according to investigators.
They said Price flew to Toronto to meet the boy.
"She got the young man -- who is now 16-years of age -- to leave the home, leave his parents," said Lt. Mathew Gray with the Internet Crimes against Children Task Force. "And they went to a local bed and breakfast where some sexual activity took place."
The teen's parents reported him missing and an alert was issued in the town of Barrie...
Price, who has four children of her own, is being held on a $300,000 bond.
