22yr old Arrested for raping 13 yr old met online

PLOT TWIST: The 22 year old is female

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POTSDAM, N.Y. -- Police say what began as a friendship through an online game turned into an inappropriate relationship between a 13-year-old Potsdam boy and a 22-year-old California woman.

Kathryn Brauch was arrested in Potsdam on Wednesday after police say she flew to the area to have sex with the boy.

"They had conversed over the internet, and eventually disclosed their age and names to each other and developed a relationship, and eventually traveled to Potsdam to meet the juvenile," said Officer Mark R. Murray, of the Potsdam Police Department.

Police say the two met on the online game RuneScape, an interactive game which lets you chat with other players.

A 22-year-old California woman was arrested in Potsdam on Wednesday after police say she had inappropriate sexual relations with a 13-year-old Potsdam boy.

Brauch was charged with second degree rape, disseminating indecent material to minors and a second degree criminal sexual act.

Police believe she's been in the area for more than two weeks, staying with the boy and his mother. The mother was also charged with a crime.

"She was arrested for endangering the welfare of a child for her role in permitting or being aware of some of the relations that were occurring," said Officer Murray.

Brauch and the victim not only met over the computer, but they also sent inappropriate sexual photos using a cell phone.

Police say this is just another example of the dangers that come with technology.

"It's definitely a wake-up call for all parents for children that have access to a computer, the internet and cell phones," said Officer Murray. "This is an extreme example, but it should raise your eyebrows and make you aware if what you need to be looking for."

Officer Murray says he's seeing more and more technology-related crimes, and offers his advice to parents.

"Monitor what your children are doing, who they're talking to, what programs and games they're playing, as well as who they're calling on their cell phones," Murray said.

So female predators. They do exist. Thanks to double-standards it boggles my mind when I hear cases of females on the giving end of rape, whether it be statuatory or plain rape or otherwise *memory drifts back to Antoine Fisher movie, which involved female raping male*

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I see the conversation has evolved.

But I'm wondering if Statutory rape is as massive a problem as people make it out to be--don't get me wrong, it IS a problem, but I'm wondering why we're chucking them in jail for seven years for what appears to be more of a social taboo.

I vote restraining order between the two unless and until the kid recovers from any trauma... if he even has any in the first place.

Now I'm definitely aware of double-standards. If the genders were swapped no doubt half the people would want his head for seducing an innocent girl...

There's nowhere I can't reach.