FBI discovers missing girl with information sent from Nintendo Switch



It has become clear that

the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has successfully searched for a missing 15-year-old girl using information sent from the Nintendo Switch.

How a Nintendo Switch helped locate a missing girl 2,000 miles from home
https://www.abc15.com/news/local-news/investigations/how-a-nintendo-switch-helped-locate-a-missing-girl-2-000-miles-from-home



Nintendo Switch Console Helped FBI Locate Kidnapped Child
https://kotaku.com/nintendo-switch-fbi-abduct-missing-child-ip-youtube-1850647227

ABC15 reports that the missing girl has not been identified due to the nature of the incident. The girl disappeared from her home in Virginia on August 3, 2022.

“We will be reaching out to her family soon,” said Keitra Coleman, a volunteer with Hear Their Voices, an organization that helps find missing children, victims of domestic violence, and those experiencing homelessness. We got in touch, spoke with her grandmother and stepfather, and the next day we started a steady interview at the scene.'

The local search team continued to search for the girl, expanding the search area, but the search stalled. At this time, the missing girl was already on a bus heading for more than 3000 miles (about 4800 km) away from home.

Court records reveal that the girl was kidnapped by Ethan Roberts, a 28-year-old man who met on the Internet at the time, and was forced to shoot child pornography. At this time, Roberts seems to have allowed the girl to use the Nintendo Switch as a tool to kill time.



Nintendo Switch has a function that notifies friends that they are online every time their account connects to the Internet. The feature was designed to encourage group game play, but it did lead to the girl's friends 'discovering that the girl's account was online' and reporting it to authorities. I was.

FBI obtained the IP address of the girl's Nintendo Switch with the cooperation of Nintendo. From here we have succeeded in discovering Roberts' hiding collective housing. Therefore, ABC15 reports that 'it is highly likely that the girl was saved by Nintendo Switch.'

Eleven days after the girl's disappearance, the FBI and local police surrounded Roberts' apartment complex and arrested her, according to court records.



In addition, Roberts was indicted by a federal court on charges such as kidnapping of minors for the purpose of sexual activity, and was sentenced to 30 years in prison in April 2023.

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