Sherri Papini: Does anyone think it's a hoax?

[Anonymous]

If it is a hoax, can you just imagine how much trouble they're going to be in with the FBI and law enforcement in general!? For starters they'll be either heavily fined or be forced to pay for the resources that were used to help find her.

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Anonymous wrote:Paige Birgfield was her name.

Yes that was her! Only hers was not a hoax. I believed the Papini story at first but not sure now.

[Anonymous]

Yeah, my gut still tells me that her story is false.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, my gut still tells me that her story is false.

+1. None of it makes any sense. Held captive for three weeks...to what end? They kept her just to beat her up and release her? No sexual assault, no ransom? Kept their faces covered the whole time, so apparently planning on releasing her eventually...but what did they gain from this entire thing?

Also, her husband said she approached their car because they were women - that she wouldn't have gone over to a car full of men. But then wouldn't she have seen their faces? Or are they claiming she approached a car full of people with masks on? It just all sounds like something being made up by someone who's seen too many movies. It doesn't jibe with real-life abduction scenarios. Plus, they seem way more concerned about people saying it's a hoax than they are about finding the abductors.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah, my gut still tells me that her story is false.

+1. None of it makes any sense. Held captive for three weeks...to what end? They kept her just to beat her up and release her? No sexual assault, no ransom? Kept their faces covered the whole time, so apparently planning on releasing her eventually...but what did they gain from this entire thing?

Also, her husband said she approached their car because they were women - that she wouldn't have gone over to a car full of men. But then wouldn't she have seen their faces? Or are they claiming she approached a car full of people with masks on? It just all sounds like something being made up by someone who's seen too many movies. It doesn't jibe with real-life abduction scenarios. Plus, they seem way more concerned about people saying it's a hoax than they are about finding the abductors.

Yep. Agree with all this. Not sure the husband is in on it though. He might just be not very smart.

[Anonymous]

In a news segment I watched, a human trafficing expert said that her story was typical of other human trafficing victims.

They think that when they grabbed her they thought she was a teenager. When they found out she was an adult, mother with children and saw all the news attention her disappearance received, then dumped her somewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:Experts think it was a kidnap for purpose of sex trafficking. Women who were involved in the abduction were probably slaves too and carrying out orders of the traffickers. Branding the women is a trademark of traffickers. When they saw her face plastered all over the news and realized she was older than they thought she was (married with children), they needed to get rid of her and dumped her on the roadside.

This is exactly what I believe as well. She looks so much younger than she is, they may have thought she was a teenager at first glance.

This story is so awful it would be nice to believe it's a hoax, but I don't think it is. She was taken, beaten, burned, and dumped.

My teenage daughter runs alone and thinks it's perfectly safe. It's not.

I agree with both of you.

Nothing in the world is PERFECTLY safe. Your daughter lives with out fear. As long as she takes reasonable precautions, she should be fine.

This is not wholly accurate. PPs teen daughter doesn't have her prefrontal cortex fully formed. She is also in a developmental stage where she can't accurately perceive risk. She's young and truly believes nothing bad can happen to her. This is the trademark of the teenage brain and it's why teens die in such stupid ways when they do: they can't weigh risk because they think they're invincible. Her daughter doesn't run alone because she "lives without fear" as a choice or statement. She literally does not realize when she is unsafe or at risk. I remember running alone at 11 pm at 19/20 for the same reason. As a 30s mom I now know so much better.

So get her some reflective gear. The chances of getting hit by a car are much greater than being supposedly kidnaped by partially masked Latinas or whoever. And the risks of leading a depressing, unhealthy life are also greater.

Women are raped every single day. There are very remote portions of running trails where someone could assault you with absolutely nobody else around to intervene or witness. It's not about highly specific crimes like Sherri Papini's, just your average run of the mill HAPPENS EVERY DAY sexual assault or battery. A woman was killed just this summer running in daylight on a trail in Queens.

The vast majority of women who are sexually assaulted are assaulted by men they know, not by random strangers who attack them while they are out running.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a news segment I watched, a human trafficing expert said that her story was typical of other human trafficing victims.

They think that when they grabbed her they thought she was a teenager. When they found out she was an adult, mother with children and saw all the news attention her disappearance received, then dumped her somewhere.

She could have easily studied up on the topic. I would have if I was trying to pull a stunt like this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a news segment I watched, a human trafficing expert said that her story was typical of other human trafficing victims.

They think that when they grabbed her they thought she was a teenager. When they found out she was an adult, mother with children and saw all the news attention her disappearance received, then dumped her somewhere.

didn't someone else upthread say they say or read an expert who said the opposite...that it wasn't typical of sex trafficking?

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Anonymous wrote:In a news segment I watched, a human trafficing expert said that her story was typical of other human trafficing victims.

They think that when they grabbed her they thought she was a teenager. When they found out she was an adult, mother with children and saw all the news attention her disappearance received, then dumped her somewhere.

She could have easily studied up on the topic. I would have if I was trying to pull a stunt like this.

See, exactly what I was going to say. If the defense to "it's a hoax" is "law enforcement says it's typical of XYZ," it just makes me think that she read up on XYZ, because the other parts of the story don't make sense. They thought she was younger and she wasn't, so... then what? Keep her for weeks and gain nothing from the ordeal?

[Anonymous]

Either way, it is sad if this is real.
And it's sad if this is a hoax. That means she/her husband has some sick things in their head to make up such elaborate scheme to have her beaten.

The constant need to be in the media is what make me question it. Then again, the ladies probably dumped her because she was gaining too much media attention. There's no way they could trade her to any cartel and not be noticed.

[Anonymous]

They skipped town

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sherri-papini-family-move-undisclosed-071714783.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:They skipped town

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sherri-papini-family-move-undisclosed-071714783.html

Why tf did they leave their dogs behind??!

Sorry for the tangent--dog-lover here.

[Anonymous]

But if this was legitimately a sex trafficking case wouldn't they have done something to her (assaulted her) BEFORE the media attention ensued? Do they typically wait days or weeks before exploiting their victims? Wouldn't they have started trafficking her right away? It doesn't make sense that they would kidnap her just to hold on to her for a few days or weeks before ultimately deciding not to do anything with her.

[Anonymous]

I agree the letting her go seems off.

The only way that makes sense is if those responsible were feeling pressure, and pressure not to kill her. Media attention, thinking they were about to get caught for whatever reason. Agree that most human trafficking is focused on people who are vulnerable, may not be missed.