Right-Wing News Sites Are Circulating a Fake Story About Syrian Refugees Raping a Child in Idaho
LatestAuthorities in Idaho are refuting numerous, conflicting reports on far-right websites that a little girl in the town of Twin Falls was raped at knifepoint by a gang of Syrian refugees. The local prosecutor says the rumors were created by “a small group of people in Twin Falls County whose life goal is to eliminate refugees.”
The Idaho Statesman reported Monday that claims of a gang rape and subsequent coverup in Twin Falls were fake, circulated by people who oppose refugee resettlement in the area, and a specifically a refugee resettlement center at the College of Southern Idaho. They were repeated in various forms on websites like Infowars, Drudge Report, and World Net Daily: Infowars, for example, claimed that the girl was raped and urinated on in a laundry room at an apartment building in Twin Falls, and that the family of the perpetrators celebrated like vicious, evil cartoons afterwards:
When she arrived, the mother of the alleged rapists was only able to say “no police,” while the father reportedly congratulated his 13-year-old son. Video of the entire assault was captured on the boy’s cellphone.
Infowars got their info from a very reliable-sounding site called Creeping Sharia, which, in return, got their version of events from a site called Behind My Back, which reported things in CALM AND MEASURED BOLD ALL CAPS:
POLICE DID NOT (STILL HAVE NOT) MADE ANY ARRESTS, REPORTEDLY BECAUSE OF THE ‘LANGUAGE BARRIER’.
BOTH PERP REFUGEE FAMILIES ARE STILL IN THE APARTMENT COMPLEX, LANDLORD IS UNABLE TO EVICT. THE MOTHER OF VICTIM ESTIMATES 50+ REFUGEES ARE IN THE COMPLEX.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEY GRANT LOEBS (OR HIS OFFICE) SUGGESTED THAT THE VICTIM’S FAMILY MAY NOT WISH TO PROSECUTE.
The whole thing was, Behind My Back opined, “JUST MORE RADICAL ISLAMIC TERRORISTS, ACTING AGAINST MORE INNOCENT AMERICAN CITIZENS.”