Lorne Armstrong

Lorne Armstrong (born: ), is an infamous YouTuber and child predator who was caught trying to solicit a minor on a Dateline sting. He used the platform that he accumulated from this to try and make a YouTube career for himself, which did not end up succeeding.
==Background==
On October 18, 2007, (ironically his birthday), Lorne arrived at Dateline's sting house in Bowling Green, Kentucky, hoping to have sexual relations with a girl he believed to be underaged. After being brought inside the house and talked to by the decoy, Chris Hansen revealed himself and interrogated the man. After a long interrogation, Chris revealed himself to be who he really was, Lorne tried to leave and was shortly arrested. He was then brought to the police station were he was interrogated. He was ultimately sentenced to serving seven years in prison, suspended after serving five, given life probation and had to identify as a Registered Sex Offender.
===YouTube===
In 2017, Lorne decided to try and turn the platform that he had earned into something positive, and started a YouTube channel.
Here he would do songs on his guitar, workout videos, cooking, updates, and even tried to advertise his own business of which he made his own website for. Despite his best efforts, he was never seen as the reformed individual that he aspired for everyone to see him as. Typically, his videos were very disliked and slandered by all those who stumbled upon them (those being people who knew who he was). At first, he was blind to this, unlike user "ArtsyTiger" messaged him and informed him that the attention he was receiving was in fact slander. This is when he made his last, and currently his most popular video confronting his "trolls," only to receive the same response all his videos did, to a higher extent.
He made a video prior to this stating that he did not want to be identified as "Mr. Penis," which was a title he had given himself during his interaction with the decoy. Ultimately, he stopped uploading because of the backlash he was receiving. Afterwards he was arrested for violating his probation, stating that he was not allowed internet access. Therefore this ended his short lived Youtube forte for good.
==The Cat-Fishing Scandal==
Also in 2017, a girl whom identified herself as "Ramona" attempted to and succeed in cat fishing Lorne by creating a long-distance relationship with him. The goal of cat fishing him was to explore who he really was as a person. The cat fisher worked with two users who were well-versed on Lorne known as "Ember Infierno" and "Sam Pendleton" to carry out the operation. They would upload the calls that occurred between the two, which would typically last for about eight hours at a time. These calls tended to expose Lorne's private insecurities, including his thoughts on his "To Catch A Predator" appearance and his problems with alcohol. This would often lead to lots of shouting. This series of events led to have two sides of the community that was familiar with Lorne to feud over weather or not he deserved to be cat fished. This also led to more user to try and cat fish Lorne. One in particular, Casey Mauro, ended up getting close to him, talking about drug addiction and even confessing her feelings to him. He claimed to have known about being cat fished, but according to his behavior while being cat fished, this is false.
==Lorn's Business==
Lorne sold a shirt titled "Don't yell. I'm sensitive!" as a contradiction to a quote he said on the show, that being "Well? Yell at me why doncha!" There were many complications that came with this, one being that he used an image from the show, which counts as copyright. Another being the laws being in place that state that criminals cannot make money off of their offenses. Only one shirt ever sold, being priced at forty dollars, but it was never shipped to the customer.
==Other Past Arrests==
===DUI===
Lorne was arrested for a DUI for running his van into the side of a home. The date of this occurrence is unspecified.
===Alcoholism===
In 2019, Lorne was arrested a second time for not being able to pass his rehabilitation class of which he attended for five years. Reasons include not taking responsibility for his actions and having shown up drunk to the class. This on top of other drinking issues led him to face imprisonment until February of 2020.
=="The Church of Cawd"==
The Church of Cawd was a religious group made to mock Lorne Armstrong. They use his crimes and past mistakes as a fake sense of "worship." Their bible, "The Holy Lornography," is the four hundred and seven page long chat between Lorne and the decoy. Obsessive members of this religion have even shown up Cornville just to mock him. In one instance, he was fired from a milk hauling business.
==Trivia==
* During his videos, he typically wears a black ball cap and a tank-top.
* There are two possible Twitter users that could be him, @Lorne_a_20014 and @PleaseEndMePlox. Neither of these are confirmed to be his official Twitter.
* While imprisoned, Lorne wrote a novel titled: "Taken Aboard," and sold it for a price of twenty five dollars.
* He is currently employed as a truck driver.
* He currently lives in a trailer in Maine.
* He once scammed an old couple of thirty thousand dollars by promising renovations to their home and then never doing it. He has payed them back less than one hundred dollars
* After his predatory arrest, he wrote to the Judge asking to be given back the bracelet that he had gifted the decoy.
* In 2012 Lorne failed to sue NBC for forty million dollars. His case was relief money and receiving poor counseling.
==Sources==
Main Source: Lorne Armstrong's To Catch A Predator Wiki Article
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