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‘Modern Family’ Alum Ariel Winter Springs Into Action as a Decoy in Max’s ‘Undercover Underage’
For years, she played the brainy daughter on the hit sitcom Modern Family, but behind the scenes, life was tumultuous for Ariel Winter.
When she was 14, child services removed her from her mother’s home and placed her with her older sister (Ariel’s mom denied abusing her). “It’s a really deep, painful, sore, sore part of me,” she told People of her traumatic childhood.
Now 27, the actress is paying it forward in a most unusual way. After catching Max’s Undercover Underage, about an organization that fights online sex abuse, Ariel sprung into action.
She’s volunteering to go undercover as a decoy to lure internet pedophiles into meetups where they are confronted by cops. “It just impacted me so deeply,” she told the outlet of the organization’s work. “Because I’d been that kid who’d been preyed upon.”
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