New York (ANTARA News) - Miss America has joined New York area police in the fight against pedophiles who prey on underaged girls, acting as bait in a sting operation that has so far yielded 11 suspects, police said Thursday.

Blonde beauty Lauren Nelson, 20, a former Miss Teen Oklahoma, loaned police photographs of herself as a teenager and posed as a teenaged girl to lure would-be child predators cruising the Internet for sex with minors.

Four men had sexually explicit chats online with police officers posing as 13- and 14-year-old girls using Nelson's photographs and turned up for a rendezvous at a house rigged with television cameras.

Seven others had also been arrested in the ongoing operation, though they had not turned up at the house, Detective Sergeant John Cowie of New York state's Suffolk County Computer Crimes unit told AFP.

The 11 were all charged with disseminating indecent material to a minor and face up to four years in jail if convicted. "The crime is in the chat, the illegal chat of an extremely sexually graphic nature," he said.

Bollywood bride Aishwarya Rai will live with her in-laws and adopt her husband's family name, her movie icon father-in-law Amitabh Bachchan said in an interview published Thursday.

Director Steven Spielberg and actor Tom Hanks are producing a television miniseries focused on World War II battles in the Pacific, the entertainment daily Variety reported.

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