A sixth-grade girl who claimed her hair was cut by three fellow students in a racist attack on her school playground has admitted to making the story up, according to a statement from the Immanuel Christian School in Springfield, Virginia provided to the Washington Post.
The girl’s family also issued a statement apologizing to the three boys she accused.
Amari Allen described the alleged attack last week in an interview with WUSA-TV, a local CBS affiliate. Allen, who is black, accused three white boys of pinning her down, calling her “ugly” and referring to her hair as “nappy,” before taking out scissors and cutting off some of her dreadlocks.
The Immanuel Christian School counts Karen Pence, wife of Vice President Mike Pence, as one of its teachers.
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