This is a story that took place in the US when a middle aged man (Tom) married w/ 2 children created a false online identity claiming to be an 18 year old Navy soldier (tall and handsome) who just came back from Iraq. He started chatting w/ Jessy a 17 year old who fell in love with him and started sending him gifts and pictures of herself posing in a bikinni and lying on bed etc.
One day Tom's wife found an evidence of her husband's online romance and sent a letter to Jessy telling her that he is a 47 year old man married w/ children. Jessy didn't know what to believe whether its another woman trying to steal this navy hunk from her, or if she was telling the truth.
Barret is a 22 yr old coleague of Tom in a tool factory. Jessy contacted him and Barret confessed to her that Tom wasn't what he claimed to be. Soon after Barret and Jessy started having an online romantic relationship of which Tom was furious.
Tom got so furious and started sending them both angry messages and such. Barret's reply was that he didn't choose to talk to Jessy, Jessy approched him and she started talking to him.
After this relationship started getting more and more seriouse, Barret was found dead in the parking lot, shot w/ 3 bullets to the chest.
Investigation in to the matter was initiated. The investigation revealed that Jessy was never the one chatting online looking for love. It was her mother Mary who happens to be shorter, overweight, and less attractive. Mary used her daughter's identity to lure in those two men.
Distressed by the investigations' results Tom pleaded guilty to the murder charge. A plea which he tried to withdraw later but the judge refused to withdraw it but agreed to an appeal.
Sad story of which a 22 year old man just lost his life, and for what? lies and deceit.
I wish I could say the story was fiction, but its a true story you can find teh details at the bbc's website.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/specials/1516_assignment/page12.shtml
Is there a moral to the story? there is a lot that can be learned here, but I'll leave that to the readers.
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Oopppsss!
Dancing unconsciously on the slippy stage of virtual reality...
wow such a tragedy !! people should fake who they really are .. no matter what .. I mean why would they bother pretend to be someone who they aint ?? sooner or later the truth will surface out !
hmm...
I had the same thing with an American man when I was 18, he was maybe in his forties ..there was nothing and he never lied to me about who he is..we were friends..Seemed he liked talking to me..escaping from all the stress he had...hmm..I confess I was too naive those days..anyways..I found myself in the end facing his daughter and wife telling me that am flirting on her husband..no comment..
The poor guy...you know that his wife cheated him for like 10 years with the neighbor guy..o she had from him a daughter that he thought all the time that she is his daughter...el mosheklla ena she looked Mexican...while he looked Irish...
I felt him locked in a jail ..you know finally he left it all and divorced his wife then moved away to another state....
There is no moral in your story..it is a life of animals..senseless..from the mother who used her daughter identity, to the guy who was killed for the nothing.
loved the post...thank you..
Moral of The Story
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Stay away from online/virtual relationships.
I remember reading elsewhere about a girl who committed suicide when she discovered the guy she'd "fallen in love with online" was actually non-existent.
It was a sad story indeed. When I heard it on the bbc world service radio 100.1 fm (yes right out promosion) I thought, yep that is definetly blog material.
Sherry: slippy? oh the part your dancing in is dirty, move to a clean area
ps: ummm I realize in geek language that this might be misinterpreted in a dirty way but umm..!!!
Navy Girl: They should fake? am kidding I know your heart is in the right place. But as long as you keep it online, it doesn't have to surface out if u pretend to keep it as a fantasy.
desert-roses: I hope it wasn't the same thing and never ended in murder. But that is another sad story. But reality is not always happy endings. Thank you for appreciating it :)
manu: I guess alternatively you can be reasonable in these online communications. Assume inaccuracies its not an uncommon practice. Or avoid them altogether that works nicely too
NO NO NO THEY SHOULD NOT !
sorry stupid typoo :\
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