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Please, teach your kids how to email the cops.
Don't all phones can call 911 even without a sim card?
Yeah, most phones can call 112 or 911 without a SIM card, but apparently some networks still block them which is more than a little fucked up.
All phones can, and all networks in the US and EU at least are legally required to accept emergency calls from any phone, if it's in their network or not, or if it has a simcard or not.
The SIM card only acts to identify you, it is not technically necessary to place any call
I wonder how it decides what network to use when the Sim is out.
Strongest network? Preferred network? Chooses the one that's been the biggest bitch as a fuck you to them?
Seems like the kind of networks regulators should shut down
or at least fine a few million per day
Your profite picture is driving me mad. This is genus.
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They may not have been in range of any towers. I'm not and i don't live in rural Oregon.
I was thinking the same thing, how does she have access to Among Us and able to exchange social media contacts but not able to someway contact the police directly?
Yeah, my old phone has no sim but still has 911 capabilities. It even scrolls the message "No SIM card - emergency calls only" across the top of the phone. I think it might be the law here, all phones whether cell enabled or not have 911 access.
maybe that was too obvious to her captor and maybe a game flew under the psycho's radar, giving just enough cover and time to ask for help
Yea, don't think that's it:
There's something about this that doesn't add up.
Honestly I think you just need to stop assuming a kid in this situation is going to react logically. I guarantee she just wanted to contact someone she knew and she had an old friend from school on among us and used that. Also, for the people suggesting email, it's actually a lot harder to make an email these days than you'd think. Especially on the services that most people know about.
I'm not making any assumptions, though you are since you didn't read the article (this was someone the met in Among Us), and you are assuming I'm victim blaming (could he some off-the-wall coercion). I know nothing of the situation, or the child, but 500 days as a 16/17 year old is not a normal kidnapping. I.E. something does not add up.
I did read the article, but unlike you I have reading comprehension.
She contacted them in a lobby. It does not state that is where they met. They used the lobby chat to talk and exchange social media handles. She likely had to make new ones on this new phone to use. Nowhere does it state they did not know eachother before, but the fact that the teenager was able to contact her mother, as the article also states, implies to me that they had some sort of connection to her prior to the kidnapping. Perhaps I am wrong about that but nowhere does the article say otherwise.
You are very much crashing out right now btw. You don't seem to even realize that @isleepinahammock@lemmy.blahaj.zone is not me. And your reaction to me saying not to assume a kid in this situation would react logically is to get offended that I'm accusing you of "victim blaming". When all I'm doing is pointing out that kids don't always do things the way we might expect since they don't have the life experience we do.
Take a breath.
Uhhh, maybe read the title and subtitle? Met is pretty defined.
oh i do see that in the subtitle now. My mistake there.
We're obviously not talking about "kidnap and ransom" case here. We're talking about someone being sex trafficked. They were not holding that girl for money.
No, we're not, this is you assuming again. The article states a single abuser, and has kidnapping in the title, thus my description. Please just read the article.
I did read the article. I also have common sense. This clearly seems like a man abducted a girl to use as his sex slave. Kidnapping does not imply a ransom. No ransom was mentioned. And really, in 2026, one person is not going to be able to pull off a kidnapping and ransom. There's a reason they almost never happen anymore; there's just too many ways for the kidnapper to get caught in the process of contacting the victim's family and actually collecting the ransom. Today, kidnapping and ransom only really happens in places around the world where the police are in full cooperation with the gangs, like in cartel-held regions of Mexico.
The reason the situation seems odd to you is that you're fixated on this being a kidnapping and ransom. This was a case of sex trafficking. It's the only explanation that matches the fact pattern:
The most likely explanation is a man kidnapping a girl to keep her as a sex slave in his basement. If there were any ransom attempt, there would have been a huge manhunt, and it would have been a huge media circus. You don't think we would have heard about a 16 year old (likely) white girl being kidnapped and ransomed? The media lives for that shit.
This was just derived from the article and common sense. But I went ahead and did some more searching. There are other articles out there with more information. For example, this one.
Sounds like sex slavery to me.
Yeah. She was trafficked. A monster abducted her, held her in his basement, and tried to force her to be his "wife." He's literally being charged with both kidnapping and sexual abuse. Have a little more common sense.
Oh, you're a bot. Nice focus on ransom, a thing you said, not me.
Also: sex slave != sex trafficking. Very different crimes.
You're a very silly person.
Subject: Kidnapping!
Dear Sir/Madam, I am writing to inform you of a kidnapping that has me held on the premises of 123 Cavendon Road.
https://youtu.be/1EBfxjSFAxQ
URGENT: Kidnapping!! ‼️
Please let me know if you have any additional questions that I may assist in clarifying for you. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
Best regards,
I'm old and I didn't know you could email cops. lmfao
I'm teaching my kid that cops are dangerous and they should avoid them unless there is no other choice.
Welp. I feel like being locked in a basement is one of those "no other choice" situations.