WOW player arrested for child abduction An Australian woman who met a 17-year-old on the popular MMORPG is facing child abduction charges, reports AdelaideNow.
Tamara Broome, 31, who hails from an Adelaide suburb in South Australia, is currently behind bars at the Pitt County Detention Centre in North Carolina. The lovestruck lady was arrested at a train station in the US on June 26 and is facing charges of child abduction after allegedly forming an online relationship with a 17-year-old boy.
In North Carolina, a minor is anyone aged 17 or under, and Broome is accused of flying to the US in order to meet the teenager and take him with her back to Australia.
The pair have allegedly had an online relationship for a year, and "met" playing massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft together. Broome's laptop computer has been seized as evidence, and emails between the two are being analysed by police.
She was arrested on an Amtrak train heading for Rocky Mount from New York; the boy had been stopped by officials from boarding a plane to Australia after he was reported missing by his mother.
Broome's friends are claiming that Tamara was set up by the boy's family, who paid her airfare to come and see the boy, where she believed they were going to "sort it all out." However, police have dismissed these claims as "ridiculous." Pitt County Sheriff's Office chief of detectives Lee Moore commented, "As far as I know that didn't happen, and it sounds ridiculous."
