maximus otter
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PlayStation 4 has saved us from boredom countless times, but we’d never counted on the system saving a high school student’s life. In Japan, a young girl was abducted for a month after meeting with her 44-year-old pen pal – but he didn’t count on his crafty quarry using his PS4 console to call emergency services.
The victim was a young girl that fell prey to the kidnapper after a pen-pal type relationship turned into something far more unhealthy.
NHK News reports that the child travelled from Saitama to Tokyo to meet with the man who she’d met on social media websites. However, once they arrived at the kidnapper’s home in Yokohama, he confiscated her phone and confined her by tying her to a pipe. Her parent’s immediately reported their daughter as missing, but she was unable to be traced.
According to NHK, a Japanese news source, the girl was abducted from school and kept isolated from the world in the captor's basement. Here she was tied to an iron pipe and stripped of all valuables and methods of communication. Fortunately, she must have been an avid gamer or at least familiar with the console, as she was able to use his PS4 to send emails to the police while the captor was away from home. It's unclear whether she used a controller to do this or somehow operated the PS4's voice commands, but it is certainly an impressive feat.
After infiltrating the home, police found the young girl tied to the iron pipe and freed her. Thankfully, she was not physically harmed and was returned to her family. The kidnapper was confronted and arrested, and it was revealed that he was involved in many other unsolved crimes before this.
https://gamerant.com/ps4-kidnapping-victim-alerts-authorities/
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The victim was a young girl that fell prey to the kidnapper after a pen-pal type relationship turned into something far more unhealthy.
NHK News reports that the child travelled from Saitama to Tokyo to meet with the man who she’d met on social media websites. However, once they arrived at the kidnapper’s home in Yokohama, he confiscated her phone and confined her by tying her to a pipe. Her parent’s immediately reported their daughter as missing, but she was unable to be traced.
According to NHK, a Japanese news source, the girl was abducted from school and kept isolated from the world in the captor's basement. Here she was tied to an iron pipe and stripped of all valuables and methods of communication. Fortunately, she must have been an avid gamer or at least familiar with the console, as she was able to use his PS4 to send emails to the police while the captor was away from home. It's unclear whether she used a controller to do this or somehow operated the PS4's voice commands, but it is certainly an impressive feat.
After infiltrating the home, police found the young girl tied to the iron pipe and freed her. Thankfully, she was not physically harmed and was returned to her family. The kidnapper was confronted and arrested, and it was revealed that he was involved in many other unsolved crimes before this.
https://gamerant.com/ps4-kidnapping-victim-alerts-authorities/
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