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Teen Lured by Online Chat

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Council Bluffs, Iowa - A family does everything experts tell them to do to keep their little girl safe.  Still,an older man got to her and convinced her to go away with him. 

It started with an online chat between 16-year old Shalee Boysen and 26-year old Matthew Gardner. The Red Oak teen was staying in Council Bluffs with her grandma for the summer.      They warned the girls about online predators even monitored their time by locking the computer room, still a simple visit to Myspace may have got the girl in serious danger. "It's the scariest thing in the world to know that your kid is out there somewhere with a total stranger she's not safe and you can't protect her," says step-dad, Ed Boysen. 

Gardner reportedly came to grandma's house and picked the girl up late friday. But late Saturday cops found the two 70 miles away in Audubon, Iowa. Shalee is safe now. Gardner is in jail charged with harboring a runaway child and could be in more trouble as the investigation continues.

Carol Wang

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