When it was revealed that a man claiming to be a missing teen was neither him nor a teen, it was shocking that such a deception could be considered. But, a similar situation happened before.
But, a similar situation happened before.
In the case where Bourdin alleged was Barclay, he ended up traveling to Texas and living with the missing boy's family for five months before a private investigator determined through DNA testing that he was not the missing child — in spite of early contradictions, like him having a French accent and brown eyes rather than Nicholas' blue eyes.
Angeline Hartmann, the communications director at the National Center for Missing and Endangered Children, called the Bourdin case “an outlier” and noted that while the details of the Rini case are still being determined, the fact that it seems that the two individuals — Bourdin and Rini — appeared to intentionally lie about their identities was “horrible.”
“That happens often," Hartmann said of cases where people call into the hotline thinking they may be a missing child.According to Ben Glassman, the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, Rini "had actually on two prior occasions claimed to be a victim of juvenile sex trafficking."
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