It's more likely along the lines of sheer desperation to find a story during the 'silly season'.
Remember the mad story that swept the world 6 months ago about the Capitol & White House in Washington being blown up by terrorists accompanied by graphic video footage ?
No ?, either do I but it happened but these stories get lost in the stratosphere of the nonsense that passes for news these days. The footage was actually off youtube and made by a student..a bit similar to the movie Independance Day.
Along the same lines..there are a dozen kiddies bodies buried in Jersey..or maybe there isn't but what would we know?.