KFC Correction

From Yahoo:
"KFC: No evidence scarred 3-year-old girl was asked to leave"

KFC says there is no evidence a 3-year-old girl scarred by a vicious dog attack was asked to leave one of its restaurants because her face was frightening other customers. But the fried chicken chain is going to honor its $30,000 commitment to help pay for Victoria Wilcher's medical bills anyway. "We consider the investigation closed," the company said in a statement released late Tuesday. "We are honoring our commitment to make a $30,000 donation to assist with Victoria's medical bills. We hope everyone keeps Victoria in their thoughts and prayers. She will certainly be in ours." Wilcher's grandmother, Kelly Mullins, had said she was driving her granddaughter home from the hospital when they stopped at a KFC in Jackson, Mississippi, for sweet tea and mashed potatoes. “They just told us, ‘We have to ask you to leave because her face is disrupting our customers,’" Mullins told WAPT-TV earlier this month. "[Victoria] understood exactly what they said." But Mullins and her granddaughter do not appear in surveillance video taken from the restaurant on the day of the alleged incident, according to the Laurel Leader-Call, and "no orders were recorded to include mashed potatoes and sweet tea on the same transaction." "We have taken this report very seriously from the beginning," KFC spokesman Rick Maynard told Yahoo News on Tuesday, saying the company had hired a third-party consultant to conduct an independent investigation.  "We are committed to the $30,000 donation to assist with Victoria’s medical bills, no matter the outcome," Maynard said. The family of the girl did not immediately respond to a request for comment. "I promise [it's] not a hoax," Teri Rials Bates, Victoria's aunt, wrote Tuesday on a Facebook page that had been created in April to give updates on Victoria's recovery. "I never thought any of this would blow up the way it has. ABC's "Good Morning America" reports that an online fundraising page that had raised more than $135,000 for the toddler was taken down, too. "In lieu of the ongoing uncertainty surrounding the 'Victoria's Victories' online fundraising effort," GoFundMe CEO Brad Damphousse said in a statement, "[we have] temporarily suspended the campaign until the full truth is made clear."

 ^ This is very disturbing. To include an innocent 3 year old in an hoax is just plain wrong. The girl clearly has medical expenses and needs help, but for the family to make up lies and try to tarnish the reputation of a business to get the money and attention is horrible. I have to admit I "fell" for this hoax, but at least I update things when I see I made a mistake. ^

 http://news.yahoo.com/kfc-hoax-girl-not-asked-to-leave-122150903.html