What Happened When My Son Wore A Pink Headband To Walmart

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120. When I first read this it never crossed my mind that it was fake

I literally spent (wasted ) a good 4 hours Friday night reading up on this story and reading the comments. I have a four year old son, his favorite color is pink, EVERYTHING MUST be pink! So this story had me irate! The story is bad enough, then you have peoples stupid comments; I was beyond consumed with trying to find out what this mother was going to do to make this man pay for his hideous actions. Being a mother myself, the "truth" of this story never crossed my mind. Who would use their child, posting his pictures, with names and all and make up such a horrible story? I know everything online is not honest and accurate, but while reading this particular post I never questioned it. That being said, I was reading from a biased and emotional viewpoint. The only thought in my head while reading the article was that it could've been me and my son in his pink hello kitty sunglasses, or his pink goggles and swimmies. I 100% believe men (if you can call them that) like this exist, they obviously don't all look like this man, or how she chose to describe him, but they are among us!

More and more comments started popping up with people questioning the story. Most of the same reasons have also been presented here; what mother wouldn't do anything, or do more? Maybe she was in shock at the time, but why wasn't she now trying to get Walmart to review the security tapes? A lot of people questioned her own use of stereotypes regarding the "redneck" and "old bird" references, when the story had to do with this same issue (and more). Anyway, I'm sure you get my the idea. My first thought is what kind of horrible people think a mother would lie and involve her child in it, online, where it will always be?? They had a link to an "update" she had posted but it wasn't working, so I googled her name. A youtube video popped up about why somebody thought her story was a lie. I didn't watch it a that time but it got me wondering why all these people were so quick to "assume" this was untrue. I decided to look into that. Apparently some people have done a little research on her; she has blogged off and on for years, using a couple different aliases. In one post she wrote about being a pathological liar as a teen, this resulted in CPS coming to her house, I think this, as well as the fact that she has had quite a lot of dramatic experiences for one person, has just raised some red flags for people. She has blogged about witnessing a murder, and almost being kidnapped 4 times, one of the times she was actually kidnapped. She also posted a follow up saying she didn't plan to pursue this guy, she attempted to play down the fact that the guy "cuffed" her son, saying that wasn't really the issue.
I have no idea one way or the other, but after reading some of the things that she herself has said, I can understand why people would be questioning her story. @carolinayellowdog this comment is not directed solely at you. I just put it here because it was around where people started posting doubts. In regards to Huffington Post, I am thinking, this would not be a hard story to verify, at least, I wouldn't think so. I wonder how they, or any other news media website, does verify that a person is indeed a credible source? I apologize for the long post, but being I have been on both sides of this story I thought I would share what I found.