Did a 44-year-old abusive mother from Tuscaloosa, Alabama named Dolly Callahan force her teenage son to drink his own semen after she caught him masturbating to gay porn? No, that's not true: the story was made up by a Canadian entertainment website that makes a living by publishing fictional stories often involving weird crimes, bizarre sex acts or strange accidents. It is not real.
The story originated from an article published by World News Daily Report on December 12, 2018 titled "Mother forced her son to swallow his own sperm after he was caught masturbating to gay porn" (archived here) which opened:
Tuscaloosa, AL | An Alabama woman has been accused of child neglect after deputies investigated a 911 call that her 14-year-old son made after he was forced to drink his own semen.
911 operators received a distress call around 9 p.m. yesterday by the teenager who described his mother as having forced him to ingest his own sperm.
Dolly Callahan, 44, allegedly became furious after she found her son masturbating to homosexual pornographic material.
The site usually illustrates its stories with random mugshots found on the internet. We were unable to determine where the image used in this one came from.
The website World News Daily Report is a well known satire website specialized in posting hoaxes and made up stories. The disclaimer on their website is pretty clear about that even though you have to scroll all the way down the page to find it:
World News Daily Report assumes all responsibility for the satirical nature of its articles and for the fictional nature of their content. All characters appearing in the articles in this website - even those based on real people - are entirely fictional and any resemblance between them and any person, living, dead or undead, is purely a miracle.
It is run by Janick Murray-Hall and Olivier Legault, who also run the satirical Journal de Mourréal, a satirical site spoofing the (real) Journal de Montéal. Very often their stories feature an image showing a random crazy mugshot found in a mugshot gallery on the internet or on a stock photo website superimposed over a background of flashing police lights or crime scene tape.
Articles from the site are frequently copied (sometimes even months or years later) by varous fake news websites that omit the satire disclaimer and present the information as real.
NewsGuard, a company that uses trained journalist to rank the reliability of websites, describes worldnewsdailyreport.com as:
A website that publishes hoaxes and made-up stories that are often widely shared and mistaken for news.
According to NewsGuard the site does not maintain basic standards of accuracy and accountability. Read their full assessment here.
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