A report of a “possible abduction” of a young girl bound with duct tape in the Bronx turned out to be a “misunderstanding,” police said.
The alleged incident was a disagreement between the girl and one of her parents, authorities said.
The NYPD put out an alert late Friday, claiming “two unknown individuals placed an unknown female victim, approximately 8 to 10 years old, into a car near East 169 Street and Clay Avenue,” noting the child was tied up.
But an investigation by the department’s Major Case Squad found no wrongdoing.
“There’s no nefarious elements to this at all. There was no duct tape, no corporal punishment,” said an NYPD spokesman, who noted that it was a “misunderstanding” and one of the individuals who placed the girl in the car was her father.
A police source said children new to the neighborhood mistakenly thought the girl was being forced into the car by strangers, told their own parents and the police were called.
The girl was located “in the care and custody of her parents and was not a victim of a crime. This incident was investigated by the NYPD Major Case Squad. Both parties were known to each other,” police said.
