“I had no idea what Lacey was doing up in her bedroom. I discovered Lacey was accessing an Internet Web site from her bedroom with a handheld video game player,” John says of his 12-year-old daughter. 

“She created this alternate personality. She lied and said she was 16. She would say that she drank, she did drugs, she could drive,” the girl's stepmother, Teresa, adds.

“She said that she was a porn star,” John reveals. “She put that she makes $250,000 a year. She’s 12, talking to men who are in their 20s. It’s sick."

One night, Lacey crossed over from the virtual world into the real one when she met a 19-year-old man online. “She snuck out, got in the car with this young man, then they went into an open field and they had sex," Teresa says.

“He brought her back home, and she got locked out of the house. She was on the front porch when I woke up. Then it sank in: ‘How did you do this?’ She said, ‘With my handheld portable game.’ She amassed over 800 pages of chat records that were very graphic,” John says.

“It is devastating. It’s like having somebody punch you in the gut,” Teresa says.

John says he now feels responsible for his tween's poor choices. “I gave my child a game, a toy, and I wasn’t aware of all the possibilities that this toy could be used for,” he says. “That’s not my daughter. That’s not my sweet, innocent 12-year-old.”