Boys' internet prank results in sex crime arrest

A group of boys who posed as a 15-year-old girl for an internet prank ended up helping US police arrest a 48-year-old man who tried to meet the fictitious teenager for sex, Californian authorities said.

The five boys had created a fake profile of a girl on MySpace.com – a social networking Web site – to cheer up a friend who had recently broken up with his girlfriend.