CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- The FBI has issued a child predator alert after dozens children around the Southeast started getting packages in the mail.
They say 50 children, including some in South Carolina, have received these packages.
- The FBI says 50 children have received the packages across the Southeast.
- The packages contained food and a letter from "Atur Bhuck."
- One child impacted began getting the packages in December.
The packages have been sent to elementary school-aged girls and they were addressed to them in care of their school.
Officials say they contain food and a letter signed by someone named "Atur Bhuck."
"Bhuck" wrote he was 14 years old, mentally disabled and a target of bullying. He asked the girls to reply at two email addresses.
The FBI said one email account appeared to originate from Houston, and that more than 50 similar packages were ordered for minor-age girls in Alabama, South Carolina and Virginia.
One mom in Alabama says her daughter started getting the packages in December and it terrifies her knowing this is now an issue around the South.
"It freaked me out again to know wasn't isolated. She wasn't the only one. There were lots of girls he was doing this to. I think the other kids were getting theirs at school, but ours came to our house."
If you do get a package like this, you're asked to alert the police.
