Gypsy Rose Blanchard

These men that I would, you know, meet online, they were predatory.

And I wasn't thinking anything different other than, yeah, this is an experience that I've had before.

It was normal.

So it's kind of like I made a secret Facebook account that she didn't know about.

I was adding strangers on there.

Meeting what I thought would be friends.

Yes.

And then...

We went, there was a kind of like, I don't know if you know what Comic-Con is or like a sci-fi convention type of thing.

So there was one that would happen in Springfield, Missouri every year.

It was called Vision Con.

And so anyway, my mom takes us to this convention and we meet lots of nice people.

We have a great time.

I dressed up like a princess, like it was fun.

Um, I started adding all these people that went to the convention on my Facebook Okay, and they would say like always so nice to see you at the convention So at least there was some level of like interaction like oh you were at the convention.

So was I um, and there was a guy that Was at the convention.

He sent me a Facebook request and

His name was Dan and he was much older than I was.

So I was real age 18, 18, 19.

But my mom was trying to pass me off as 15.