Woman Lied About Being Slashed in Front of Trinity Church, Police Say
(DNAINFO) Irene Plagianos, Valeria Ricciulli, Murray Weiss andBen Fractenberg | April 1, 2016 — She recanted her story that she was attacked by a man calling her “a terrorist,” police said.
A woman slashed herself across the face in front of Trinity Church on Thursday afternoon, then lied, telling police that a man had attacked her and called her a terrorist, NYPD officials said.
The 20-year-old woman of Middle-Eastern descent, whose name was not immediately released, initially told investigators she was walking north on Broadway near Wall Street about 4:20 p.m. when a man grabbed her, turned her around and cut her left cheek, NYPD officials said.