‘Little House on the Prairie’ star warns that child ‘predators’ lurk in Hollywood: ‘Help protect children’

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first told her story to Larry King. She described how appearing in the hit TV series saved her sanity in her 2011 memoir “Confessions of a Prairie Bitch.”The star has become an advocate for child sex abuse victims, but her work is far from done, she insisted.

Arngrim is the president of the National Association to Protect Children, a nonprofit that aims to give children a legal and political voice in “the war against child abuse.” Arngrim wants to combat predators who seek places where children can be found unsupervised.

Places like Hollywood continue to be a hot spot, she said.“Hollywood still has a sex abuse problem,” Arngrim told Fox News Digital. “Whenever you have an environment where there are lots of children … there’s going to be predators.

There’s going to be someone who wants a job where they have unfettered access to young children all day. And the more that job involves completely unsupervised access to children, the more attractive that job is going to be.”“We have lots of people who have sacrificed their whole lives to help children,” Arngrim shared. “But, sadly, there are others who aren’t that way.”According to the organization’s website, it has worked in Congress and in over 27 states to craft legislation that leads to stronger, tougher laws that combat child exploitation.“There’s a lot to do,” said Arngrim. “We all think if someone gets arrested for child molestation, sexual abuse, they will go to jail, and they will be on a sex offender’s list.