NBC Retracts Story That Accused Slaughterhouse Cleaning Company of Employing Illegal Minor

Free Beacon ^ | 4/21/22 | Alana Goodman

[CFW]

NBC News has retracted a major investigative story that accused a slaughterhouse cleaning company of illegally employing a 16-year-old Guatemalan immigrant, after evidence emerged showing the worker is actually 21 years old and lied about his age to get over the border.

NBC Nightly News on April 12 aired an emotional interview with "Pedro," an alleged underage worker at slaughterhouse cleaning company PSSI—noting in the segment that companies are legally barred from hiring minors for those positions because of the danger of the work.

Pedro said in an interview with NBC's Julia Ainsley that he worked the night shift in the Kansas factory to "clean all the blood of the cows," leaving him barely enough time to go home and shower before going to high school in the morning. He claimed the work was "very tiring" and made it difficult for him to pay attention in class.

But days later, PSSI sent NBC News a videotape of the same employee, in which he admitted that he was actually in his 20s. NBC said it later obtained records from Guatemala confirming that Pedro was 21 and had misrepresented his age.

[CFW]

NBC had such a good narrative to promote they couldn't be bothered to check the facts prior to publishing. The media seems to do that a lot.

[napscoordinator]

And most won’t hear the retraction but will still think the slaughter house is a mean evil place. Ugh!

[chopperk]

Libs do this lot.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“ The media seems to do that a lot. ”

Unfortunately that is the rule and not the exception.

[bgill]

Lying will get him on a one way trip back to Guatamala pronto, not.

[Larry Lucido]

The Slaughterhouse Cleaning Company. Are they the bizarro Sunshine Cleaners?

[cuz1961]

NBC .

So,,, they all of a sudden found a truth bone in their commie org ?

B.S.

They , all of a sudden care about child slave labor and investigate and at long last find “ 1” case of it.

Then say “ ooops, we were wrong”.

Sure.

No.
This is just a ploy to leave one opinion in America’s mind.

That there really isn’t

an illegal alien child labor ( and/or sex)

slave operation going on in america.

The classic “debunked our self” con.

[FlingWingFlyer]

How do they know Mr. Guatemala isn’t lying about being 21 also? The maggot is not only in this country illegally, he lied to the U.S. Government to get in. The perfect Dung Beetle Party ahole. Deport the maggot.

[pangaea6]

Was their nothing else of national importance NBC could have focused on, maybe hunters laptop, Clinton’s grifting, Biden China and Ukraine ties? I know they won’t, just a rhetorical question

[TimSkalaBim]

This was a misfire on the latest attempt to smear republicans and paint them as child abusers, to counter and misdirect the Dems own child abuse activism. Expect to see more of the following this election cycle: Child labor protections are the latest Republican target - Arkansas is leading the charge against laws that protect kids — despite revelations of dangerous child labor nationwide.

[Do_Tar]

I remember when a company could get in trouble for hiring illegal aliens, no matter what their age.