A missing 16-year-old Ohio girl groomed by a 31-year-old Florida man was located at the man’s Dunnellon home after she accessed her account for the online role-playing game World of Warcraft and the FBI geolocated the account, CNN reports.
On Wednesday, police questioned Thomas Ebersole in the unnamed girl’s disappearance after finding the girl in his home with him, as he was signed into his World of Warcraft account too. From the same IP address. At the same time. While sitting in another room of the same house. Of course, he initially did not know anything about the underage girl who was playing the same MMORPG in the house where he lived, but later admitted to driving to Ohio to pick up the girl after arranging the abduction using the Discord platform, which is apparently the home to various kinds of nefarious people. Ebersole said he intended to keep the girl at the house and planned to later marry her because he was in love. There was no information on Ebersole’s disqus handle.
Here’s just a friendly reminder that this is the crime-fighting federal organization that members of Congress like Marjorie Taylor Greene scream to demonize and defund because it’s investigating crimes committed by, y’know, her friends without understanding the vast amount of investigations–like this–they do regularly. And for the record, unshockingly, Florida man Thomas Ebersole is not a member of the LGBTQ community nor is he a drag queen, sparing him the moral outrage of Moms for Libertines Liberty or Ron DeSantis.