Gulf News
5 March 2014
False reports on messaging applications about gang
using children to lure victims
By Nada Al
TaherStaff Reporter
Abu Dhabi: Police have denied rumours circulating on
social media about gangs who commit heinous crimes after luring people to
houses.
Mobile phones have been buzzing with rumours about a
gang that has been using children to lure victims into its trap. Rape, robbery
and organ theft supposedly awaits those who take the ‘lost’ children back to their
‘homes’.
However, Abu Dhabi Police have confirmed these rumours
are false and the seemingly authentic document circulating on messaging
applications contains a forged police report.
The document states a person from the police force
filed a complaint alleging that children were found on Abu Dhabi streets
holding signs with their home addresses. The children would claim they were
lost when in fact these addresses led the victims to the gang members. […]