Disgusted mum blasts sick trolls who stole her daughter’s photo and claimed she’d gone missing in the Manchester terror attack when she was safe in AUSTRALIA
Rachel Devine from Melbourne, Australia was stunned to find trolls had stolen a picture of her daughter Gemma, 12, and were posting it online
A DISGUSTED MUM has blasted trolls who stole a picture of her daughter and claimed she was missing following the devastating Manchester bombing - even though they live in Australia.
Blogger Rachel Devine from Melbourne had waved her daughter Gemma off to school yesterday morning and had been taking a nap as she was recovering from surgery.
But when she woke, her phone had been inundated with messages from concerned friends who thought her daughter was a victim of the attack on the Ariana Grande concert at Manchester Arena, which left 22 dead.
Many of Rachel's friends had taken screen shots of tweets that had been posted online using her 12-year-old daughter's picture that claimed she had been caught up in the carnage.
The tweets had stemmed from an account, which claimed to be from a person who was at the concert and had been separated from her friend.
The mum-of-three then had to reassure all of her worried friends and family that Gemma was safe and well at school in Melbourne and not in the UK.
And the blogger blasted trolls by writing on her how she will never understand why trolls steal pictures and lie about such horrific events.
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She said: "I'm home from surgery and woke from a nap to multiple messages asking if Gemma was safe.
"Apparently someone used a photo of Gemma in a fake profile on Twitter claiming she was a friend lost in the tragedy in Manchester.
"I'll never understand the bizarre thing of pretending to be someone else online."
It is believed the troll took Gemma's picture from her Instagram account before using it to claim she was a victim of the attack.
And although Rachel was horrified by the trolls, she said it was nothing in comparison to how families who had lost children would be feeling.
She told : "The real scary story is that you can send your daughter to a beautiful concert and have them taken by terrorists.
";That is way scarier than sharing photos online.
"And of course as a mum to a near teen who has just gone to her first concert in March, I am absolutely devastated for the parents who are involved.”
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However Rachel and Gemma weren't the only ones to find themselves being trolled in the wake of the attack.
A man living in Cairo has also hit back at sick trolls after they shared a picture of him on Twitter and claimed he was missing in the wake of the attack.
And other pictures were also circulated online reported to be images of those caught up in the attack, which were later revealed as fake.