Wanted to skip class and spend time with boys
BELO HORIZONTE, Minas Gerais – Three teenagers were in police custody Friday afternoon after faking their own kidnapping in order to get out of class in the Matozinhos area of the capital. A spokesman for the Military Police (PM) said that the mother of one of the teens called to report the supposed crime after her daughter called her saying that she had been kidnapped and was trapped in the trunk of a car with her sister and a friend.
PMMG Helicopter (photo: flickriver.com)
According to the PM, after the girls were located, they confessed that they were with their boyfriends during the five-hour ordeal. Sixteen policemen, four squad cars and a helicopter were dedicated to the search for the girls.
After receiving the first report of the crime, the PM worked under the hypothesis that the kidnapping was real, even though they suspected it was a false report. Lieutenant Noel Rosa of the 198th Company of the PM said that details of the event led to the suspicion that the girls had lied. “No girl is kidnapped and left with her phone to make calls,” he is quoted as saying.
Also according to the lieutenant, the girls, 12, 13 and 15-years-old were found on the MG-424 highway after more than five hours of searching. They were taken to the PM headquarters, in the company of their parents and representatives of the city's child protection service, where they were questioned. That is when they admitted to the ruse. They face charges of making a false crime report.
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