Woman fakes kidnapping to meet internet mystery man
Thursday, August 13, 2009 @ 2:34 PM
NATIONAL POLICE have arrested a Guatemalan woman who came on holiday to Barcelona to meet a man she had been chatting to on the internet, and then faked her own kidnapping as an excuse to give her husband for prolonging her stay.
The woman, who had arrived in the Spain on July 22, began to send text messages to her husband back in Guatemala the following day, saying that she was in an unknown place and that she and other victims were being forced into having sex with their captor.
The man, concerned for his wife’s safety, contacted the Guatemalan Embassy in Spain and told them that his wife was being held against her will in Barcelona. National Police began to investigate the case with the intention of freeing the women, but finally found her in the city of Barcelona, where she told them she had been able to escape from her captors. She was taken to hospital and found to be uninjured.
Once taken back to the police station, she admitted that she had invented the story about the kidnapping and sexual abuse, and had done so in order to stay in Barcelona for longer than she had planned. She initially said that the man whom she had come to meet had stolen her jewellery, but, later, witnesses testified to having seen her and the unknown internet lover selling the items together.
Source: Euro Weekly News