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Ariel Winter Opens Up About Why She Goes on Undercover Stings to Catch Child Predators

Modern Family star Ariel Winter opens up about why she's leaning into the surprising new mission. Plus, what she wants parents to know about the prevalence of online predators.

"I started working with an organization called SOSA (Safe From Online Sex Abuse) a couple of years ago," Winter tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story. The small organization of women acts as young decoys to lure in Internet pedophiles in sting operations, and then work with local law enforcement and vice squads to arrange in-person meetings with those looking to abuse children, and get those perpetrators arrested. She just hopes that her work will get the attention of parents, who she says need to be better informed about just how prevalent online predators are, lurking in chatrooms of games like Roblox, or even in coloring apps designed for toddlers.

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