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Anonymous wrote:I agree with the prior poster who said officer was trying to check something out perhaps for themselves or someone they know. The story was made up to check out you or your child for some reason.

Yet the police station backed up the story and had a whole cover ready to go when the OP called?

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the prior poster who said officer was trying to check something out perhaps for themselves or someone they know. The story was made up to check out you or your child for some reason.

Anonymous wrote:The more I think about what happened last night, the less it makes sense.

Around 9pm last night there was a knock at our door. It was the police—I saw the car in our driveway and an officer at our door. My heart skipped a beat and I opened the door thinking someone had been killed, only to be told that a random child in a neighboring city had received an envelope containing pornography (adult) sent by our DD, return addressed in her name. I explained that I doubted our 10yo sent this and it sounded like a really horrible prank, and DD10 was clueless. She hasn’t been out of my sight in weeks, she just hasn’t had plans or I was with her during them. The officer apologized and left. I was sort of shaken up and haven’t had a clear mind to think about it until now.

Wouldn’t a detective handle this? Why would they come knocking at 9pm?

Who would do this to DD? We have no connection to anyone in that town. If someone was pranking DD, how would they know a child lived at that random address?

DD said nobody has treated her weird or different at school this week or last. I would assume this would have been mailed over the weekend to arrive on Monday.

The officer said nothing more about us being contacted about this or anything. It’s just so weird. I’m not even sure which jurisdiction he was from, I was so first afraid, then shocked.

Has anyone ever heard of anything like this?

Anonymous wrote:I agree with the prior poster who said officer was trying to check something out perhaps for themselves or someone they know. The story was made up to check out you or your child for some reason.

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Anonymous wrote:As a business owner, I've had a couple of odd encounters with local police. I finally determined that generally they're doing it on their own for a family member or a friend.

Probably the other "kid" is the cop's niece or friend of a friend. The whole story may be a ruse to cover up something by the other "kid". Kid in quotes because maybe the cop buddy's wife is having an affair and he tracked her phone near your house. Then cop needed a reason to make contact.

This seems like the most plausible scenario so far. Does any of this seem possible, OP?

Yeah, I was generally thinking along those lines. Law enforcement really doesn't have much of a problem of using their badge off hours.

Still intrigued, though, on how they knew a kid lived there.

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Anonymous wrote:As a business owner, I've had a couple of odd encounters with local police. I finally determined that generally they're doing it on their own for a family member or a friend.

Probably the other "kid" is the cop's niece or friend of a friend. The whole story may be a ruse to cover up something by the other "kid". Kid in quotes because maybe the cop buddy's wife is having an affair and he tracked her phone near your house. Then cop needed a reason to make contact.

This seems like the most plausible scenario so far. Does any of this seem possible, OP?

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Anonymous wrote:The most difficult thing to believe is that a 10-year-old knows the USPS exists.

My DH's 24-yr old nephew didn't know how to address an envelope. Yeah, I get that that says more about him than it does about this situation -- but kids don't mail stuff anymore. A 10-yr old isn't going to know how to do it, or even think of doing it.

Anonymous wrote:As a business owner, I've had a couple of odd encounters with local police. I finally determined that generally they're doing it on their own for a family member or a friend.

Probably the other "kid" is the cop's niece or friend of a friend. The whole story may be a ruse to cover up something by the other "kid". Kid in quotes because maybe the cop buddy's wife is having an affair and he tracked her phone near your house. Then cop needed a reason to make contact.

Anonymous wrote:Was it definitely the police? Did you see the envelope? People's names and addresses are pretty public...my wife gets letters addressed to her by name from Jehovah's witnesses...but I agree this sounds strange. You could report it to your local police or the FBI just to have a record, but I agree it's weird.