Gangsters Using Child as Bait to Rape Women - Hoax Analysis

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Subject: FW: Miami-Dade County Warning

Sheriffs Department Warning Family Please Read!

This is from the County Sheriffs Department, please read this message very carefully:

This message is for any lady who goes to work, college or school or even Driving or walking the streets alone. If you find a young person crying on the road, who shows you their address and is asking you to take them to that Address, take that child to the Police Station!!

No matter what you do, Don’t go to that address. This is a new way for gang members (MS13) to rape women.

Please forward this message to all ladies & guys so that they can inform their sisters & friends and family. Please don’t feel shy to forward this message. Our 1 message may save a life.

Published by CNN & FOX News (Please circulate)..

**Please Do Not Ignore! Thank you!

Other Versions

1. Attention All Girls And Ladies: If you walk from home, school, office or anywhere and you are alone and you come across a little boy crying holding a piece of paper with an address on it, DO NOT TAKE HIM THERE! take him straight to the police station for this is the new ‘gang’ way of rape. The incident is getting worse. Warn your families. Re-post this so this mesage can get across to people.

2. Females Beware!!!!!!!!!!. If u find a child cryin on the road/street showing there address and asking u to take them home, Dont Do It! Instead take them to the police station or ring the police. What ever u do don`t go to the address. This is a new way for gang members to rape female`s. Its already happend in leeds so don`t let it happen to u,

3. A New Kind Of Rape ( Ladies Be Warned )

This is a true story.
The woman left the office after working hours and saw a little child crying on the road. Feeling pity for the child, she went to ask what happened. The child said, ‘I am lost. Can you take me home please?’ Then the child gave her a slip of paper and tells the woman where the address is. The woman, being an average kind person who didn’t suspect anything took the child there. And there when they arrived at the child’s
home’, the kind hearted woman pressed the door bell and she was electrocuted as the bell was wired with high voltage, and fainted.

The next day when she woke up, she found herself in an empty house up in the hills, naked. Condoms were all thrown around with semen all over her and flowing from her body. There were at least about 20 condoms! She has not even seen her assailants. That’s why nowadays crimes are targeted on kind people like her. Next time if the same situation occurs, never bring the child to the intended place. If the child insists, then bring the child to the police station. Lost children are best to sent to police stations. Please send this to all your female friends/colleagues, and your friends with girlfriends and friends with wives. It is better to receive this a thousand times than be a victim once!

To keep my Identity and job safe I will just say that I am Officer Justice. Keep safe Ladies! Please pass this on to family members. It is better to be informed. It is sad that we can’t even help children now!

4. Subject: New Rape Case Tactic

Hi everyone, I am not sure when did this happen, but it is best to be careful and safety comes first.

She was just discharged from the hospital…

Today after office hours, I heard from my sister-in-law that there is a new way to rape women It happened to one of our good friends The girl left the office after working hours and saw a little child crying on the road Feeling pity for the child, she went and ask what happened The child said, “I am lost. Can you take me home please?” Then the child gave her a slip and tell the girl where the address is. And the girl, being an average kind person, didn’t suspect anything and took the child there.

And there when it arrived the “child’s home”, she pressed the door bell, yet she was shocked as it the bell was wired with high voltage, and fainted. The next day when she woke up, she found herself in an empty house up in the hills, naked.

She has never even get to see the face of the attacker… That’s why nowadays crimes are targeted on kind people. Next time if the same situation occurs, never bring the child to the intended place. If the child insist, then bring the child to the police station. Lost child are best to send to police stations.

Please send this to all your female friends.
(my extra note: guys, please tell your mom, your sister, your wife and your girlfriends too!)

Analysis:

E-mail messages purporting to be from Miami Buildings Department and other sources warn working women to be careful with young people and children who claim to have lost their address. The warning message claims that this is a new technique of gangsters to mislead women to remote addresses for raping them. The message insists that if women find any such children, they should be taken to the nearest police station, it also requests users to share this warning with everyone, for the safety of women. However, there are no reports of any such series of rape crime. These stories are hoax.

These messages have been circulating through emails ever since 2005, various versions of which are still spreading through social networking websites and mobile text messages. But there are no such documented cases or reports of rape crimes using young children as a bait to trap women. There are no such reports in CNN and Fox news either. Police and law enforcement officials around the world have been repeatedly calling these warnings as hoax. They also mentioned that sheriff’s officials do not send text warnings to cell-phone users.

Rapists generally get into such crimes based on opportunity, targeting particular women, they do not plan such risky tactics and capture random women. Therefore, these warning messages are hoax, they are not from department of building permits or sheriff’s office. They need not be shared, spreading such misinformation and rumors through social networking websites will only spread unnecessary fear.

Having said that, it is a fact that gangsters and criminals use variety of tactics to abduct and attack potential victims, and similar incidents might have happened somewhere in the world. So it is better to be careful with strangers. If you find any lost child like this, and you feel that something is not right, it is always better to approach the police and hand over the child there.