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A prominent New York City transgender and HIV activist has been arrested and charged for allegedly soliciting a minor on Grindr and asking him for oral sex.
Lailani Muniz, 39, was taken into custody after corresponding with a man working with the NY Creeps Spotlight nonprofit, who posed as a 14-year-old boy named Josh on the LGBTQ dating app, Fox reports.
Muniz, who identifies as female and is HIV positive, works as the Chief Operations Officer for the New York Transgender Bodybuilding Federation and was honored earlier this year at Bronx Borough Hall during Pride Month.
NY Creeps Spotlight, which works to expose people who target children, posted chats Muniz allegedly had with the disguised man, who only identified himself as FM.
The messages show Muniz wanted to have sex with the minor, offering weed and ecstasy to make him 'feel horny', and asked him for oral sex even after finding out he was underaged.
FM got Muniz to agree to meet up with him in a video posted on YouTube last Friday, where the pedophile hunter confronted Muniz and called the police to arrest her.
According to the criminal complaint, Muniz told the officers arresting her: 'We did have a conversation before. It got sexual, it got racy, then we stopped talking for a while.