THE SETUP – The original victim claim was a family asked to leave Kentucky Fried Chicken -by a KFC employee- because a heavily scarred youngster was scaring the other customers. KFC apologized and offered $30k, a sympathy fundraising effort raised over $135k, now a local reporter exposes the entire event as a hoax… HatTip MoonBattery
MISSISSIPPI – The story of a three-year-old girl who was asked to leave a KFC because her dog attack scars were scaring the other customers has been accused of being a hoax.
Kelly Mullins, the grandmother of Victoria Wilcher, who was left with severe facial injuries after being attacked by her grandfather’s pitpulls, claimed KFC staff at a branch in Jackson, Mississippi, asked them to take the three-year-old out of the fast food restaurant because her appearance was putting the other customers off.
Following outcry over the incident, KFC apologized and pledged $30,000 to help pay the medical bills for Victoria, who had lost her right eye as well as suffering a broken upper and lower jaw, nose and cheek during the attack.
As the story spread around the world, $135,000 was also donated to the family’s GoFundMe page from the public to help pay for Victoria’s treatment and surgery. Members of staff at the KFC store also said they became the victims of death threats because of the claims.
However, it is now claimed the family made the whole story up, with local newspaper Laurel Leader-Call reporting there is no evidence the story ever occurred.
There is however, a significant amount of evidence the entire event was totally fabricated.
CCTV footage shows that neither Mullins nor Victoria were ever in the KFC branch in question at the time of the alleged incident.
Mullins also claimed she had ordered a large sweet tea and some mashed potatoes and gravy for her granddaughter as she was feeding through a tube at the time but “figured she could just swallow [the potatoes]”.
However, the paper also says no one had ordered tea and mashed potato as a meal or even as part of a larger order on the day, as Mullins claimed she had. (read more)