{"id":1399,"date":"2025-07-18T01:34:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/?p=1399"},"modified":"2025-07-18T01:34:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T01:34:26","slug":"this-approximately-2-year-old-boy-was-found-see-more-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/?p=1399","title":{"rendered":"This approximately 2-year-old boy was found\u2026 See more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/500070410_122184006962282576_1790647286751633318_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/todaynews11.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/500070410_122184006962282576_1790647286751633318_n-526x400.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" 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night walking behind a home here in #hereford Deputy Tyler Cooper saved him and took him to the Police Station but no one has an idea where he lives, the neighbours don\u2019t know him or how he got there. He says his mom\u2019s name is Ella. Let\u2019s flood our feeds so that this post may reach his family, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/1949577395272459\/posts\/4117907541772756\">separate post<\/a>\u00a0claiming the same thing happened in King\u2019s Lynn in Norfolk is almost identical, and includes the same photos.<\/p>\n<p>Neither post is true. The force responsible for Hereford, West Mercia Police, told Full Fact that there\u2019s no record of an incident matching the description in the post, and that it doesn\u2019t have an officer called \u201cTyler Cooper\u201d. Norfolk Constabulary confirmed to us that it doesn\u2019t have a \u201cdeputy\u201d rank or an officer called \u201cTyler Cooper\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>These posts appear to be the latest example of hoax posts that we\u2019ve seen falsely raise an alarm for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fullfact.org\/online\/charlie-william-missing-stock-photograph\/\">missing children and<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fullfact.org\/online\/missing-man-hoax-Mr-Jones\/\">elderly people<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fullfact.org\/online\/baby-found-dumpster-earthquake\/\">abandoned infants<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fullfact.org\/online\/injured-dog-northern-ireland-fake\/\">injured dogs<\/a>\u00a0in Facebook community groups.<\/p>\n<p>Our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fullfact.org\/online\/facebook-hoax-posts-deception\/\">investigation<\/a>\u00a0into these sorts of hoax posts last year found that they\u2019re often edited later to promote something completely different, such as a property listing or cashback site, with comments frequently disabled to prevent users calling them out publicly. 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