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Among Us contact leads FBI to missing girl's rescue

A young player alerted his mother after the girl said she was being held against her will, according to a German news report.

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A conversation that began through Among Us helped authorities find a girl who had been missing for more than a year, Germany's ARD news service tagesschau reports.

Presenter Begüm Düzgün describes how a young player met the girl through the multiplayer game and exchanged contact details with her. The girl later told him she was being held against her will in a man's house.

The player told his mother, who contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the U.S. federal law enforcement agency. According to the report, months of searching by the FBI had previously failed to locate the girl. Emergency responders then freed her from the house.

Düzgün reports that a man was arrested on suspicion of holding the girl captive, beating her and sexually abusing her. The report's account places the crucial intervention outside the game itself: the young player passed her disclosure to an adult, who brought it to investigators.

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