Videogame crime report, 2007

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Date: 26th June, 2007

Location: Adelaide, Australia/North Carolina, USA

Crime: Attempted abuduction

Details: A thirty-one year old Austrailian woman tries to take a seventeen year old American boyback home for marriage. They met in World Of Warcraft. Oh dear.

You’re not helping WoW players fight the geeky social deviant sterotype missy. Not one little bit.

After forging an “intense” romantic relationship through the MMO with the boy when he was sixteen, Tamara Broome then flew over to the US with the intention of meeting him and taking him back to Australia to get married. Bizarrely, her plan failed. What are the chances?

Firstly, being aged seventeen made the boy an under-age minor by North Carolina law, thus potentially swiping Ms. Broome hard in the face with the paedo-stick if things had gone any further. Secondly, by “sort it all out”, it seems the boys parents may have meant “get your ass soundly arrested”. She was met by three detectives near the boy’s house and found herself behind bars soon afterwards, claiming the whole thing was a set up.

Broome was later sent back to Australia after having her charge reduced to ‘contributing to the delinquency of a minor’. If she contacts the boy before his eighteenth birthday she will be arrested again. After that though, the raid can theoretically continue.

David Houghton
David Houghton
Long-time GR+ writer Dave has been gaming with immense dedication ever since he failed dismally at some '80s arcade racer on a childhood day at the seaside (due to being too small to reach the controls without help). These days he's an enigmatic blend of beard-stroking narrative discussion and hard-hitting Psycho Crushers.