Published Date:
22 September 2009
By Staff reporter
RIFE rumours that a little girl had been abducted recently in a Ballymena supermarket were completely unfounded, a local police officer has said.
The circulating speculation included a rumour that the young victim had been led into shop toilets where she was put into boys’ clothes and even given a shaved head to mask her identity by her phantom abductors.
Inspector Pete Bouma, however, told The Ballymena Times that this was nothing short of ‘an urban myth’ which reared its head on a regular basis in towns “all over the world”.
“This did not happen in Ballymena - there is absolutely no truth in it,” he stated.
“If you put some or all of these details into a computer you will get hit after hit of this sort of incident happening somewhere around the world.
“It is not helpful to us or anyone else that this story has been circulated locally but it is one that comes up every now and then,” he said.
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Last Updated:
20 September 2009 2:39 PM
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Source:
Ballymena Times
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Location:
Ballymena
