Twentymiglia
A tale of fake news: this story made the front page of Reddit today and I decided to click the link. I noticed that the source, NPR, was one I generally trusted, but the link was to an image and not the original NPR story. I got suspicious.
A five second google search revealed two things:
1) The story was written in 2011 and 2) there was an editor’s note.
Editor’s note, March 10, 2019: In recent days, this 2011 story has been circulating on social media with an altered Facebook headline that was not created by NPR. The headline and story published here are accurate as originally published in 2011.
Though the story really was as horrendous as you’d imagine, the NPR headline was far less inflammatory. Moreover, there is no indication of the racial make-up of the kids he illegally jailed.
I tried to check this against another source. The story broke from The Times Leader, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa. but the article has gone the way of the Dodo
The judge is a bastard and deserves every second of the 28 year sentence, but this is a reminder to keep your eyes open.
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