Thursday, May 19, 2011

So Why Can't I Get a Job as an Online Reporter??

From the annals (or possibly the anals) of “I couldn’t make this up if I tried” comes this article discovered by alert reader and undercover operative Agent Toque McToque:

Teen Allegedly Sexually Assaulted Police
by QMI Agency

An Ontario man is facing several charges after a 13-year-old girl told a nurse she had been sexually assaulted by a man twice her age, police say. The girl went to a medical facility in Wallaceburg, Ont., located 120 km southwest of London, on Tuesday and told a nurse she had been sexually assaulted May 9. The nurse contacted police. Police said the girl told them she had been a man online last summer, when she was 12. They had conversations on Facebook, YouTube and MSN Messenger before deciding to meet. They met in a secluded area of the town and had "a sexual encounter," police said. They met two more times in the following weeks. On May 9, they talked on Facebook before meeting in person again. The girl told officers the man forced her into a sexual encounter that day, police said. A 26-year-old Wallaceburg man has been charged with four counts of sexual assault, four counts of sexual interference, and four counts of an indecent act.

This article raises so many questions: Is the educational system in Canada really just as bad as ours? Who is QMI Agency and why isn’t his/her writing more widely read? How can Wallaceburg, Ontario be 120 km SW of London, which everyone knows is in England? (Just kidding, Toque! But I still think Vancouver would be a better relocation option, if exponentially more expensive.) But of course the single most puzzling question is this: when exactly did the teen sexually assault the police, back when she was a man online last summer?

Famous Hat

2 comments:

Hardingfele said...

I disregarded the poorly worded headline. What caught my eye was this "Police said the girl told them she had been a man online last summer, when she was 12." So a year ago the girl was a man?!

Famous Hat said...

Yes, an 11-year-old man, apparently.