A teenager filing a lawsuit against his parents for $250,000 because they named him Gaylord is fake news. There is no truth that Gaylord Williams sued his parents for his name. Where did this fake news originate? A user using Pagez.com posted the story that the teenager sued his parents over his humiliating name. Pagez.com allows anyone to post stories. You can read the fake news article below.
A 17-year old boy from Missouri has launched a civil lawsuit against his parents for naming him Gaylord as a child, a name which allegedly caused him to suffer from a lot of mockeries and even serious bullying.
Gaylord Williams from the small city of Kirksville in Missouri is suing his parents, Dave and Carol Williams, for “deliberately making his life miserable” by giving him “an outdated and prejudicial first name”.
In his allocution presented this morning in front of the Adair County Circuit Court, the teenage boy claims he was an undesired child and that his parents deliberately gave him that first name to make him “a designated scapegoat”.
“They told me several times that I was an accident and that I had ruined their life. When he was drunk, my father even admitted that they had named me like that in order to ruin my life like I had ruined theirs.”
However, there is no truth to the above story, according to Hoax Alert. The above story originally was shared on World News Daily Report, which is a fake news website. Additionally, the above story used a photograph that actually shows Seán Cooke, an Irish teenager who sued his former soccer club and lost the court case. Here are some examples of people sharing the fake news on social media.
Teenager sues his parents for $250,000 for naming him Gaylord https://t.co/T7shs2VZYK
— Aly (@mr_aly) October 1, 2017
— Enytsan. (@renealise) October 1, 2017
https://t.co/5JqcV2Z6R8 teenager. Smh.
— Sir_Caustic (@meBlack_Sheep) September 30, 2017
Damn.. that’s brutal.
https://t.co/HeDVUhNLD9
— kanishk rai (@Krai143Rai) October 1, 2017
Lmao I don’t blame him https://t.co/SIbV1rZVFP
— Nancy (@__nancyx) October 1, 2017
Wonder if can sue my parents then https://t.co/4eTbulwaGQ
— Hunter Bowden (@evilpimpsboss) September 30, 2017
you just can’t make this up the world has gone nuts https://t.co/Z33ZQDaCHi
— Tetrykx (@yaz2932) September 30, 2017
Teenager sues his parents for $250,000 for naming him Gaylord. Isn’t there a song call a boy named Sue? https://t.co/zWh301HZKg
— wilhelmina murray (@crisiswotcrisis) September 27, 2017
World News Daily Report previously published an article on Sept. 4, 2017, reporting that Anthony Dwight, 17, sued his biological parents for being born white and that he suffered his entire life for it. World News Daily Report is a well known hoax website that publishs stories that have confused social media readers into believing them. World News Daily Report carries the following disclaimer:
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.
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