Man’s claim gives false hope in yearslong missing boy case

[Steel]

https://apnews.com/7442e718fdf643a580d26c0f117cd522

This is related to the kid thread I posted a few days ago, I wanted to make a new thread as to not to confuse anyone since titles cannot be edited. This is the asswipe that said he was a missing kid.

[C O Y O T E]

Authorities did not say whether Rini would face charges over the alleged hoax or what his motive was.
Okay but, please release his motive, because I'm absolutely baffled as to why anyone would even attempt to do this. What's to gain? How did he think he was going to get away with it? What?

[Kite_shugo]

Damn, I really wanted that to be the actual kid that was missing. I can't think of many other cases of someone pretending to be someone who was kidnapped for multiple years

[Iknowtoomuch]

The boy’s grandmother Alana Anderson said: “It’s been awful. We’ve been on tenterhooks, hopeful and frightened. It’s just been exhausting.” She added, “I feel so sorry for the young man who’s obviously had a horrible time and felt the need to say he was somebody else.”

This woman is a goddamn saint

[Steel]

https://apnews.com/7442e718fdf643a580d26c0f117cd522

He will be charged. He's facing up to 8 years in prison.

[GrizzlyBear]

Especially when you consider her daughter, the mother, committed suicide over her child going missing.

[revan740]

I thought it was a little bit more mysterious than that. Did she leave a note in a hotel room that said "He's (her son) with someone who loves him" along with saying she killed herself. Eerie.