Five Assumption University students in Massachusetts were arraigned on conspiracy and kidnapping charges after allegedly luring a man to campus through a dating app and assaulting him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend popular on TikTok. Police say the students used a fake Tinder profile to invite the 22-year-old man to campus, where they accused him of seeking to engage with underage girls and physically assaulted him.
WORCESTER, Mass. — Five Massachusetts college students appeared in court Thursday, accused of plotting to lure a man to their campus through a dating app and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on TikTok. The Assumption University students, all teenagers, were arraigned on conspiracy and kidnapping charges. Not-guilty pleas were entered for all of them, and they are due back in Worcester District Court on March 28 for a pre-trial conference.
Campus surveillance video shows a large group of students, including the woman, “all with their cellphones out in what seems to be a recording of the whole episode,” the police statement said. They are seen “laughing and high fiving with each other” in what appeared to be “a deliberately staged event,” and there was no evidence to indicate the man was seeking sexual relations with underage girls, the police report said.
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