[Ammi]

...it’s hard to know why she would have said what she did...an attention cry..?../..worries and anxieties in her school or home life...?...it’s impossible for us to know atm, but thankfully the falsehood has been revealed and I hope that all children involved are given appropriate counselling ...for me though, this doesn’t compare with Jessie Smollett, who is an adult and has a celebrity status ...so any reasoning of possible ‘attention cry’ could not be looked at in the same way...and I think it’s important to keep in balance how rare this type of false claim appears to be...

..’False claims of racially-motivated assault are rare, according to Katheryn Russell-Brown, who directs the University of Florida Law School’s Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations.’...