A 33-year-old woman from San Francisco has been arrested after meeting a 15-year-old boy online and then flying across the country and renting an Airbnb for a month.
The California woman flew to Michigan for an alleged sexual tryst with a 15-year-old boy, who became spooked and told his parents after she sent Uber drivers to his home to pick him up and deliver him to her Airbnb, police claim.
The woman, Stephanie Sin, of San Francisco, is now in jail in Oakland County with a $100,000 cash bond, charged with child sexually abusive activity and using a computer to commit a crime.
According to Novi Police, Sin met the boy on an app over a year ago when he was 14. The conversation then moved from the app to texts and got progressively more explicit, police said.
This past weekend, police said she bought a plane ticket and rented and Airbnb in Royal Oak, Michigan, for a month with intentions of meeting the now 15-year-old in person. Police said she would then send Uber rides to the boy’s house to pick him up to bring him to her.
Police said this spooked the boy and he told his parents what happened. Novi Police were then contacted and they immediately moved to arrest her. “It started as them talking casually and then it advanced to more sexually explicit talk,” Novi police Lt. Jason Meier told Fox 2.
In a separate interview, Meier said, “The boy was aware that she was an adult and she was aware that he was a 14, now 15-year old boy.”
“When the car showed up to pick him up, that when I think it became real to him at that point,” Meier also said.
“It was fun and exciting to talk to somebody online but the minute they start to show up at your doorstep it becomes a whole different ballgame, and I think that, and rightly so, scared him enough to tell his parents,” he said.
The parents called police, who were on hand at the boy’s residence in Novi when “two Ubers showed up at the house, two different Ubers that she had sent to pick him up,” Meier said.
“Had he gotten into that Uber, who knows what could have happened,” he said.
“This case is a stark reminder of how important it is for parents to be aware of their children’s online activity,” Meier added
“It may be exciting, but it’s very dangerous, and we would encourage anyone to tell someone,” he said. “Tell your parents, tell your teacher, tell the police.”
Sin and the teen never had any physical contact, all because he spoke up. “I give him all the credit in the world for telling someone and getting a predator off the streets,” Meier said.
Meier then went on to talk about the arrest after they arrived at the Airbnb.
“She was a little surprised,” Meier told FOX2 Detroit, “but at the same time, she knew what she was doing.”
Excellent job of getting that pedophile out of our society. Our children need the best care, love and education from their parents and society. We need these lovely children to grow to be healthy adults.