The Columbus Dispatch [OH]
6 March 2014
By Charlie Boss, The Columbus Dispatch
The email warns of attempts to abduct women and girls
in broad daylight at crowded shopping centers. It warns that a new gang
initiation requires members to kidnap, rape and beat women, then dump them in
parking lots.
For years, authorities have tried to keep such
messages from spreading, debunking their claims as urban myths.
Last week, an e-mail Columbus Police officials say is
a hoax circulated throughout central Ohio, warning that kidnappers nearly took
someone’s “co-worker’s cousin” on a Saturday afternoon from a crowded Polaris
Fashion Place. […]