Assault hoax story is featured headline story on CBS website.Not so much on others

Oct 24, 2008 2:48 pm US/Eastern

Police: Campaign Volunteer Lied, Injured Self
Ashley Todd, 20, is now facing charges for filing a false report to police

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PITTSBURGH (KDKA) ― Police say a campaign volunteer confessed to making up a story that a mugger attacked her and cut the letter B in her face after seeing her McCain bumper sticker.

At a news conference this afternoon, officials said they believe that Ashley Todd's injuries were self-inflicted.

Todd, 20, of Texas, is now facing charges for filing a false report to police.

Todd initially told police that she was robbed at an ATM in Bloomfield and that the suspect became enraged and started beating her after seeing her GOP sticker on her car.

Police investigating the alleged attack, however, began to notice some inconsistencies in her story and administered a polygraph test.

Authorities, however, declined to release the results of that test.

Investigators did say that they received photos from the ATM machine and "the photographs were verified as not being the victim making the transaction."

This afternoon, a Pittsburgh police commander told KDKA Investigator Marty Griffin that Todd confessed to making up the story.

Todd told investigators that she didn't remember what happened.

Police say they do not believe any other people were involved; and her friends believed the story about the attack.

According to police, investigators working on the interview process detected several inconsistencies in Todd's story that differed from statements made in the original police report.

Pittsburgh Police Public Information Officer Diane Richard released a statement earlier today, saying: "Because of the inconsistencies in her statements, Ms. Todd was asked to submit to a polygraph examination which she agreed to do."

No photos of Todd are being released by Pittsburgh Police at this time.

Boortz on, who is also an Aggie! Neil said he was ashamed that she damaged the reputation of all Aggies.

Someone posted this on the CBS story:

"Ayers bombs the pentagon and still Obama is friends with him. Obama should be shot. And you want to blame Mccain for some girl blaming a black guy for beating her up. You all are in trouble if NOBRO gets in. You still will be poor, you still will be lazy but yeah you will have enought time to clean your trailor."

Should I just hit "report abuse" or should I see if there's a way to report it to Secret Service? Probably not an actual threat, but I know they take that stuff seriously.

And made over the internet, too. Seems they could nab an IP address on that one.

Only one word wrong.