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She is shocked when she finds out what this harmless symbol means
It looks quite harmless. But when she accidentally gets out what this symbol stands for, she is shocked: her daughter's toy is a symbol of pedophiles.
Nicole Kelly was with her family at a truck show and bought - naively suspecting - her two-year-old daughter a toy. A pink pillow in truck shape.
On the roof of the truck symbols are shown: A heart, a rose and a hand. Everything looks completely harmless. The little daughter is happy about the toy and likes to play with it.
But one day Nicole's older daughter noticed something: This heart symbol on her sister's pillow is familiar to her. Was not that in a recent episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit? And was not it a sign of pedophiles in the series?
Nicole is shocked and begins to research immediately. She finds hints, but she really does not get ahead. So she informs the press and with the help of the NBC journalists she actually gets out: It's true. This double heart is a symbol that pedophiles use to show each other their preferences, in this case the love of a little girl.
The larger heart, framing a smaller heart, symbolizes the love of an adult to a little girl.
For boys, a similar symbol with triangles is used. A small triangle framed by a larger one. More info and pictures can be found in this FBI report.
Understandably, Nicole was nerved at the end: "I'm all ready, I bought this for my two-year-old girl, this toy was made for little girls, I want answers! ... This toy is pink little girls, and I bought it at an event where mostly men are. "
Of course, Nicole and NBC immediately contacted the company that makes the toy. A spokesperson for Field Inc. responded, "We're shocked, we had no idea, we responded immediately. ... Until yesterday, we had no idea that there was a deeper meaning to this symbol."
As NBC reports, the company has immediately taken the toy out of the sale and will check all the toys designed by the (now retired) designer of this toy. We do not yet know whether it was an oversight, that is, simple ignorance, or whether there was intent behind it.
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