先日アップした行方不明の少女の記事ですが嘘だったと判明したので削除させて頂きました。
もしご協力頂いていたら本当に申し訳ございませんでした。
もう何年も以前はAshleyFloresという名で同じメールがまわっていたようです。
ブログやツイッター、メールで掲載、送る前に検索して確かめてみればよかったです。
だけど一人の子を持つ親として何かできる事があればと。そしてその日の朝にみていた夢にカッサンドラと名乗
る存在がでてきたので（メールを見る前に）これは何かしないとと何も確認することもなくとっさにアップしてしまっ
たのです。
こういう心無い行為があるという事が残念でありまた理解できません。
何を目的としているのか。。
でもこういうネットやメールを簡単に閲覧でき送る事ができるこの世界ではやはりきちんと確かめてからという行
為が必要なのだと学びました。
皆様には貴重なお時間をこんな嘘の情報の為に頂いたことを深くお詫び申し上げます。
Hiroko
For those who passed the info. for helping find the girl, I'm so sorry that this whole thing was a Hoax.
apparently this CassandraHuet alias Ashley Flores is a real person but she is not, nor has she ever been,
missing. The hoax has now been circulating around the world for over four years.
This email forward claims that 13-year-old Ashley Flores(now under the name of CassandraHuet) is
missing from Philadelphia. It asks recipients to pass on the message to their contacts in the hope that
someone has seen Ashley.
However, the claims in the message are untrue. In fact, the message is just another pointless missing child
hoax. Ashley Flores is a real person but she is not, nor has she ever been, missing. And even back in 2006,
when the hoax message first began circulating, Ashley was a lot older than thirteen. Information in an
about.com article indicates that, this "missing child" message started as a joke perpetrated by a friend of
Ashley's that got completely out of hand. Since it was first launched in 2006, the fake missing child alert
has circulated all around the world.
The structure and much of the wording of the message is very similar to that of an older hoax email
(included below) that claims a child named Penny Brown is missing. Both messages include the information
about the "girl from Stevens Point" and there are a number of other similarities. For example, the Penny
Brown hoax includes the following:
We have a store manager (Wal-Mart) from Longs, SC who has a 9 year old daughter who has been missing for 2 weeks. Keep the picture moving on. With luck on her side she will be found
The Ashley Flores message includes a virtually identical paragraph with some minor details changed.
We have a Deli manager (Acme Markets) from Philadelphia, Pa who has a 13 year old daughter who has been missing for 2 weeks. Keep the picture moving on. With luck on her side she will be found.
These strong similarities indicate that Ashley's "friend" has simply used the older hoax message as a
template, altered the details a little and substituted a new photograph before sending it onward.
And, just for the record, extensive searches of news and other credible sources revealed no information
whatsoever about a missing child named Ashley Flores. There was nothing about this supposed missing
child on the Philadelphia Police Department Website. Searches on the website of the National Center for
Missing & Exploited Children and others sites that deal with missing children also revealed no information
about a child named Ashley Flores.
Like others of its kind, the message does not include any way of verifying the name, age and circumstances
of the youngster depicted in the attached photograph. Emails sent to the address listed in the message are
"bounced" back with an error message noting that the address is not valid.
In the years since the hoax first began circulating, several slightly altered versions have made their
appearance. One version that has circulated widely in Australia claims that Ashley went missing from
Mandurah, a city south of Perth in Western Australia. Other versions have claimed that Ashley went missing
from a number of different cities and towns across the United States, as well as other locations in South
Africa and the United Kingdom. As with the original message, the information in these newer versions is
totally untrue.
While the original creator of this hoax message may not have intended to cause serious harm or concern,
false messages about missing children are especially nasty. Such hoaxes have a negative impact on police
departments and missing child organizations who must waste their valuable time and resources fielding
endless enquiries about supposedly missing kids that either do not exist at all or are not and never were
missing. The continued circulation of such hoax messages also make it less likely that genuine missing
child alerts will be taken seriously.
This message has now circulated for several years. If you receive this message, please inform the sender
that it is a hoax and do not forward it to others.
( quoted from the article
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/ashley-flores.html )