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Ariel Winter Takes On Online Predators Through Undercover SOSA Missions

She joins law enforcement in a YouTube docuseries that uses decoy profiles to catch abusers

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Overview

  • Winter began acting at age four and as a teenager endured inappropriate messages from older men that led to deep trauma and therapy
  • She now volunteers with Safe From Online Sex Abuse, adopting decoy personas in sting operations alongside local vice squads
  • The SOSA Undercover series on YouTube documents her role in setting up fake profiles and staged rooms to secure predator arrests
  • Since leaving Los Angeles in 2020 with partner Luke Benward, she has focused on her recovery and supporting vulnerable children
  • Her experiences with childhood exploitation and relentless body-shaming headlines inform her mission to protect minors from sexual predators