The woman dubbed the "Facebook predator" is unrepentant about tricking schoolboys into online relationships.
Natalia Burgess, 28, is facing police questions after luring up to 40 pupils from St Thomas of Canterbury into her web of fake online personas.
In a string of Facebook messages this week, the 28-year-old called her victims "little boys" and said she could have had sex with them but didn't want to.
"Who got hurt? If I wanted to have sex with them I would of made it happen don't you think? But I never did."
She sent some air tickets and encouraged them to visit her in Auckland but now says the tickets were fake.
"Everything was fake. Nothing was real. Fake plane tickets, too. Just a tad hurtful but, hey - you play with fire, you will get burned."
The Herald on Sunday revealed last week the 28-year-old from Manukau has been involved in a string of physical relationships with teenagers.
They started after she set up fake Facebook accounts using images from other people's profiles.
This is one disturbed woman, in our always-humble opinion. But what disturbs us even more is the seeming lack of action by the Police so far.
Imagine this scenario: a 28-year-old MAN grooms teenage GIRLS via Facebook, and initiates sexual relationships. We have every expectation that the Police would act quick-smart to stop the behaviour, and if laws have been broken, to make an arrest. So what is the difference here?
And as the HoS story notes, Natalia Burgess is either a hardened criminal with gang connections, or she is living a Walter Mitty type life - read on:
She claimed this week she had spent much of the past six years in jail and that her ex-boyfriend was Josh Masters, jailed leader of violent South Auckland gang Killer Beez.
"You think I want little boys when I had and run with boys like that?" she wrote.
Burgess maintained her claim that she had an accomplice and said he used one of the fake personas to secure a reduced sentence in a court case. She said she welcomed the attention she was getting and had told her story to Woman's Day magazine.
Burgess said she had not taken money for the interview: "I had fun just being treated like a princess for a couple of hours with hair and makeup."
She said she "needed that boost" after the Herald on Sunday "put my most ugly ... photo all over the paper".
The more that emerges with this story, the more disturbing it becomes. And the publishers of Woman's Day should be having a good look at themselves as well; Natalia Burgess should be being treated with scorn, not "like a princess".
Grooming teenagers for sex is wrong, regardless of the gender of the predator or the victims. We hope that the Police do something about this disturbed woman in the very near future before she does any more damage to vulnerable, easily-duped teenagers.
7 comments:
You're a sick puppy INV2. Great topic!
Where is she on Labour's list?
Cadwallader
The fact that the police have not yet charged her with anything has nothing to do with gender KS. It has to do with the fact that she has not broken any laws - or none that they have found yet. They can't just pull a charge out of thin air.
It is not illegal to impersonate someone on the internet. It is not illegal to lie on the internet. It is not illegal to use photos that are on the internet. It is not illegal to talk to people that are underage.
She never met any of them, according to what has been reported, and that is what she would have needed to have done in order for it to be considered "grooming for sex..."
I am getting a tad sick of hearing that the only reason she has not been charged is because she is female and the victims were male. There are tons of men out there that get away with doing this to young girls, and are never charged because they don't cross the line and actually meet the girls.
I have no doubt that if she has broken any laws, the police will treat her the same as they would treat anyone else who commits an offence - regardless of gender.
Jackie; there was an earlier report that she had sex with a 15yo boy
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10722621
She already did time in prison for that so it may not be taken into account...
Any 15 normal year old boy would be hot for sex with an older half attractive Women if she offered to him.
Where were these female predators in my day?....sigh. ;-(
We are now a nation of gay whimps.
Shes a complete minger so she was never going to show the reak her.
James, I can see why you lucked out back in the day, shes not half hot, not even tepid.
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