Damn you MySpace with your sexual powers!

[Muscletang]

Jordan persuades 'MySpace' girl to go home

DETROIT - A 16-year-old Michigan girl who authorities say tricked her parents into getting her a passport and then flew off to the Mideast to be with a West Bank man she met on MySpace.com headed for home on Friday.

U.S. officials in Jordan persuaded her to turn around and go home before she reached the West Bank.

Katherine R. Lester is a straight-A student and student council member, her father said. "She's a good girl. Never had a problem with her," Terry Lester said.

MySpace.com is a social networking Web site with more 72 million members that lets users post photos, blogs and journals. There have been scattered accounts of sexual predators targeting minors they met through the site.

Katherine disappeared Monday after talking her family into getting her a passport by saying she was going to Canada with friends, sheriff's officials said. She apparently planned to visit a man whose MySpace account describes him as a 25-year-old from Jericho, Undersheriff James Jashinske said.

The FBI traced the teenager to a Wednesday flight from New York's Kennedy Airport to Tel Aviv, Israel. At a scheduled stop in Amman, Jordan, U.S. officials persuaded her to return home, FBI agent Robert Beeckman said.

It was not immediately known when she would arrive back in the United States. Terry Lester said the family was keeping details of the return private.

Katherine apparently contacted the man from Jericho about three months ago, Jashinske said. Jericho, a city of 17,000, is a relatively calm area of the volatile West Bank.

Shawn Lester told The Saginaw News that her daughter has "never given me a day's trouble. ... I just don't understand with all these new laws protecting America how a 16-year-old kid could get out of the country." She said her daughter never had a boyfriend and seemed to be content with that.

State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said he could say little about the girl because of privacy rules.

Katherine and her mother live in Gilford, a village about 80 miles north of Detroit in Michigan's agricultural Thumb region. Her father lives in Grand Blanc Township.

The age of consent in Michigan is 17, and Katherine turns 17 on June 21. An online conversation with a 16-year-old is not illegal in Michigan, but solicitation for sex would be, Jashinske said.

"We can be in love," he said. "Talk about some other things and you can be in trouble."

Who is worth flying halfway across the world...on Myspace!?!

[Broke_as_****]

Thats right up there with that dumbass who flew himself to the Middle East for some school report.

[Damien]

^oh yeah!

i dont get it though. is she ugly? someone like her, just give up everything to go there. but its bad enough at 16 her 'rents would just let her go to canada with friends. canada is scary!!!

[fredjacksonsan]

What the hell were the parents doing/thinking? Nothing obviously.......

[Rally Sport]

Originally Posted by Muscletang

Who is worth flying halfway across the world...on Myspace!?!

A fat girl's hope for love..

[stone_mound_camaro]

Actually i jus saw the news story cuz im here in michigan where shes from. Shes somewhat attractive. Naive teenager i suppose

[TexasF355F1]

She's obviously smarter than her parents.

[Nicole8188]

Flying halfway across the world to be with someone you met online is uber-tacky.

[stone_mound_camaro]

Yea.. she got those "Rugrats" type parents

[2.2 Straight six]

Muscletang, i didn't know you lived in the west bank.

[beef_bourito]

Originally Posted by Damien

canada is scary!!!

I know eh, there are creeps like me there.

i think that's gotta be one of the dumbest things you can do. how did she get the money for the plane? did she spend hundreds of her own money? her parents money? wtf is wrong with her.

[windowpane]

It was not immediately known when she would arrive back in the United States.

Umm never, stupid girl.

[Muscletang]

Originally Posted by 2.2 Straight six

Muscletang, i didn't know you lived in the west bank.

summer house

[79Bandit]

dummmb dee dumb dumb

[quteasabutton]

i don't really know any 16, 2 weeks from 17 girls who are "perfectly content" with being single their whole life. dumb parents..obviously now, she hasn't been single cuz she's lez or something. i <3 my myspace but not enough to travel anywhere to meet someone, that's just stupid.