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The so-called Facebook predator has broken her silence amid revelations she has had sex with at least one 15-year-old boy - and claims to have slept with other teenagers.

The mother of one victim has also come forward saying police could have stopped her a year ago but failed to act when approached.

The bizarre world of Natalia Yvette Burgess, 28, has been unravelled by the Herald on Sunday.

The newspaper has exposed a myriad of online fantasy worlds driven through social networking websites and aimed at schoolboys - a week after  Ms Burgess was exposed as the woman at the centre of a police inquiry.

Ms Burgess has created multiple fake Facebook personalities in which she has posed as a number of attractive teenage girls.

Among others, she has used the names Amie Marie West, Laura Jane West, Jordz Williams, Becca Maria Jullienne, Abby Jane Zoe William and Racheal Marie Drent.

The Herald on Sunday has also established that she has carried the fantasies over into real life, claiming to have had sex with boys more than 10 years her junior after meeting them online.

The mother of one teenage boy says her complaint was ignored by police - and she still doesn't know if her son slept with Ms Burgess at the illegal age of 15.

And the mother of another teenage boy who Ms Burgess had sex with has said a senior police officer was removed from the case after he told her boys were less affected as victims of sexual predators than girls.

Police confirmed that both women had been in contact with officers over issues relating to Ms Burgess.

Common fantasy themes have also emerged from the online world Ms Burgess inhabits:
She will approach the mother of teenage boys she has had sex with to tell them that she is pregnant. Burgess uses images of pregnancy scans and photographs of positive pregnancy tests as proof.

She claims to be the mother of a three-year-old child fatally injured in a car accident. The story shifts between the accident just happening - or the child being on life support about to be disconnected.

She will use one online persona to tell victims that another false identity has committed suicide, describing how she found the body and detailing the reasons for the death - sometimes making an emotional connection to the boy.

When the schemes go sour, Ms Burgess will threaten the families of the boys she has become involved with.
Ms Burgess was back on Facebook last week using profiles which the Herald on Sunday has connected to some of the false identities she uses on the internet.

She had gone to church on Sunday morning with her religious family where she had to cope with the public revelation that she was the woman dubbed "the Facebook predator".

She said she did not carry out the online scam alone - and named as an accomplice a man who had previously called himself a victim.


Investigations into Ms Burgess by the police continue with inquiries focused in Christchurch where up to 40 students at St Thomas of Canterbury school were caught up in her online world.

Police say Ms Burgess used multiple online aliases with false photographs to convince the boys they were forming internet relationships with girls their own age.

The mother of a Wellington teenager told the Herald on Sunday she was horrified to find Burgess was still targeting teenagers after her 15-year-old son entered a physical relationship with her.

The woman - who cannot be named for legal reasons - said she first met Ms Burgess among the spectators at a school cricket match when her son was aged 15.

She said she asked her son if Ms Burgess - about 23 at the time - was "a bit old" for him "but it was sort of palmed off".

"It's not easy questioning your teenagers too closely," she said.

It later emerged Ms Burgess had first met the boy's 18-year-old brother through NZDating.com.

But she said Ms Burgess learned her son had a younger brother and she approached and "friended" him over Facebook.

The truth of their relationship emerged months later after the teenager disappeared one evening.

At a family meeting after he returned, it emerged he had been seeing Ms Burgess and had been having sex with the older woman.

It later emerged both her boys had lost their virginity to Ms Burgess but it was only the 15-year-old who she continued seeing.

The woman said Ms Burgess not only saw her son for sex in the evening but would also do so during the day, when the boy would have been in school uniform.

She said Ms Burgess would take the boy to parks and reserves for sex.

Then Ms Burgess rang the woman. "She said she was pregnant to one or the other of the boys. This was our first grandchild and it was one or the other of the boys."

The announcement was a bombshell - and one that the woman was determined to get to the bottom of. She began demanding DNA proof "and that's when the death threats began".

The woman said the threats came from both Ms Burgess and an online persona who claimed to be her sister.

The woman said she and her son went to police. She said the police pursued the case - although the initial detective sergeant investigating the case was replaced after he told her that boys pursued by sexual predators were not as affected in the same way as girls.

She said the officer seemed unsympathetic, calling at one stage to tell her: "You need to get both your boys tested for STDs and HIV."

It emerged later that Ms Burgess was not pregnant and had not been.

She had claimed to have had a 3-year-old daughter in Westport, yet this also appeared to be untrue.

The woman said the stress of the case placed immense pressure on the family and left her so run down she fell victim to an infection from which she struggled to recover.

"It nearly killed me."

Her son had previously been a model student but began truanting, and eventually had to be transferred to another school after teasing over the case turned to bullying, she said.

The police involvement did eventully lead to Ms Burgess ending contact.

The mother of another teenager said her son was also nominated as the father of a baby that Ms Burgess never had.