A boy in Mississippi fabricated a story about nearly being kidnapped, police said.
Officers in Biloxi reviewed surveillance tape from Popp’s Elementary School after a 9-year-old student there claimed he escaped from a would-be kidnapper.
But they found no evidence to support the story—the boy had said he was walking to school when a man in a red truck attempted to abduct him, but he fought the alleged kidnapper off—and after confronting the alleged victim, the boy confessed he made the story up, reported WLOX.
Many people had reacted to the story on social media, with multiple parents criticizing the parents of the child.
It appears the boy faces no discipline for his fabricated story.
