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Ariel Winter Exposes Childhood Abuse and Leads SOSA Undercover Sting

Participating in YouTube’s SOSA Undercover, Winter poses as a minor with Safe from Online Sex Abuse to confront online predators.

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Overview

  • Winter revealed that from age four she received inappropriate messages and in-person advances from older men while working as a child actress.
  • The experience of grooming and relentless online body-shaming led her to seek professional therapy and leave Los Angeles in 2020.
  • Since mid-2025, she has participated in SOSA Undercover sting operations in Oklahoma City, posing as a teenage decoy to assist law enforcement in apprehending alleged predators.
  • The YouTube docuseries chronicles her collaboration with Safe from Online Sex Abuse and police officers as they track and expose online predators.
  • Her advocacy underscores systemic failures in child protection in Hollywood and resonates with similar accounts from other young actors like Jenna Ortega.