A viral “news story” claims that a babysitter in Florida tied a crying one-month old baby to a ceiling fan for 26 hours.
The article, published on WorldNewsDailyReport.com, claims the babysitter – identified as Nora Jackson – was arrested for neglect after being hired by the parents through CraigsList.
An excerpt of the article reads –
FLORIDA: BABYSITTER TIED CRYING ONE-MONTH-OLD BABY TO CEILING FAN FOR 26 HOURS
Orlando, FL | A woman has been arrested and charged on multiple accounts of child abuse and neglect after tying a one-month-old baby to a ceiling fan.
Nora Jackson, 28, was contacted and hired on Craigslist to take care of a one-month-old baby after the parents had planned to take a day off.
Parents of the one-month-old child contacted the Orlando Police Department when they arrived at their residence to find their baby had been tied and suspended from the ceiling fan.
However the story about the neglectful babysitter is entirely fake, and yet another successful story from the popular spoof news website WorldNewsDailyReport.com. This particular spoof news site makes its name by creating fictitious and almost-unbelievable crimes, which it invariably pairs with a random mugshot found on the Internet.
WorldNewsDailyReport.com is extremely successful, namely down to the sites ability of creating crazy sounding crimes that just about lie of the cusp of believability. The site has been active for a number of years and had enjoyed viral success numerous times with similar sounding headlines.
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However more sceptical and eagle eyed readers of the website will note the tagline “where facts don’t matter” and see the disclaimer on the site at the bottom of each article that reads –
World News Daily Report assumes all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website – even those based on real people – are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any person, living, dead or undead, is purely a miracle.
As such, the entire story is false and should not be shared as accurate.
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