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African-American Girl Claimed White Classmates Forcibly Cut Her Hair. Now The Truth Is Out.

Ryan Saavedra
African-American Girl Claimed White Classmates Forcibly Cut Her Hair. Now The Truth Is Out.
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A sixth-grader who claimed last week that three white boys at her school pinned her down and forcibly cut her dreadlocks while telling her that she “should not have been born,” admitted on Monday that the attack never happened and that she made the entire story up.

“The 12-year-old, who is African American, said three white boy students held her down in a school playground a week ago during recess, covered her mouth, called her insulting names and used scissors to cut her hair,” The Washington Post reported.

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