(Greenville, North Carolina) A 31-year-old Australian woman, Tamara Broome, was jailed on June 25 for allegedly traveling from Australia to North Carolina to abduct a 17-year-old boy she met over the Internet.
Broome has been charged with abduction of a child.
The chief of detectives in the city of Greenville, Lee Moore, says the pair began a relationship while playing World of Warcraft.
"The best that we can discover is that they wanted to meet," he said.
"To be honest with you, if someone were to fly from here to Australia or them to here, there's got to be some kind of romance somewhere."
Detective Moore says the pair had been communicating for about a year.
"What we understand she was trying to do was to get him to leave the country and go to Australia to meet her," he said.
It's widely reported that some people believe Broome's arrest was a "set up" by the boy's parents.
Broome was booked into the Pitt County Detention Center on $2.4 million bail. A court appearance is scheduled for July 11th.
Posted by: SOT
In NC...isn't the age of consent like 9 or something? WTF is the issue with a 17 year old kid trying to get down with an older woman....isn't that every boys dream...and at 17 in NC I'd think it was actually legal... If they lady came here, and there are not tickets for the kid to go somewhere else...I think this one is bogus...and 2.4MM bail? WTF is that about...NC is one f'd up state...you can rape your wife...but somehow this lady gets $2.4MM in bail? I'm ALL FOR locking pedos up...but I think they've gone out on a limb here...plus lock up the parents for letting their kid get involved in this.
The age of consent in North Carolina in general is 16, though no school faculty member can have any sexual activity with any student more than 4 years their junior except when married to the person {§14‑27.7}. Any sexual intercourse with a 13-15 year old is prohibited unless the defendant is less than 6 years older than the victim except when married to the person {§14‑27.2, 14‑27.4 & 14‑27.7A}.
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