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A missing 12-year-old's grandparents tell the Daily News that they fear she was "lured into a trap" by someone on MySpace. Apparently Juliana Carrozza claimed she was 17 on her MySpace profile and grandfather Vinny Carrozza, who has custody of Juliana, said, "She went on MySpace a lot, fooling me and my wife. She knew how to delete it without us picking it up. The language on there was disgusting for a 12-year-old. There was guys there, too." Last seen on November 14, she said she was sick and stayed in her room. But neighbors say they saw her go into a black car, possibly a livery cab, which "peeled off about 5:45 p.m. near her home...in Windsor Terrace." The News, which points out how MySpace's user agreement says visitors must be 13, reports the police are investigating; Juliana is listed on the NY State Missing and Exploited Children Clearninghouse.

A Bronx girl who was hiking with a church group in Whirlpool State Park in upstate slipped from a rock and fell into the Niagara River. Authorities are worried she may been swept away by the current into a whirlpool. A couple hiking behind the group saw the girl spoke to the media; the wife said, "We didn't see her fall in. I saw her when maybe she was about 10 feet in the water... I yelled to my husband to jump in and get her, but by the time I saw her again, she was about 20 feet out... At about 75 feet out she went under. It didn't look like she was trying to swim." The girl's friends told the Niagara Gazette she wasn't a good swimmer "at all."