12-Year-Old Faked Her Kidnapping to Extort Her Parents in Brazil | #WeirdDarkNEWS

A 12-year-old in southern Brazil told her family kidnappers had beaten her and would kill her unless they paid — and police spent sixteen hours hunting captors who never existed.

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