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California authorities are investigating whether a mom influencer made a false report when she accused a couple of attempting to kidnap her two young children.
The Petaluma Police Department said Thursday there is no evidence to support that a crime occurred.
In a news conference Friday, the accused couple, identified as Sadie and Eddie Martinez, said they headed to a Michaels craft store earlier this month to purchase Nativity scene decorations for their Christmas display, the Argus-Courier reported.
The woman who made the complaint was identified in media reports as Katie Sorensen, a White woman who regularly posts on social media about her children. Police said she reported that she was followed by a couple as she pushed her children in a stroller through a parking lot outside the store.
California police are investigating the case of a mom influencer claiming that a Latino couple tried to kidnap her two young children in the parking lot of a craft store in Petaluma.
The police department said in its investigation of the incident that they found evidence, which supports the couple s version of the story, as reported by the NBC News.
Denying Allegations
The Latino couple denied the allegations against them during a press conference on Friday.
The woman claimed that the Latino couple followed her into Michaels before 10:30 a.m. She then added that the couple trailed her as she shopped with her children in a stroller.
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Petaluma police re-interviewed Sorensen after her video went viral, and authorities said in a Dec. 17 press release that she was definitive that the couple approached her children’s stroller and that the male reached for it; she stated she would testify to that fact, and that she wanted the couple prosecuted.
According to authorities, they were able to identify the couple after reviewing images from the store s security camera and the pair promptly responded, agreed to be interviewed, and have fully cooperated with the investigation. While acknowledging they had shopped at Michael’s and were the couple shown in the photograph, they denied the allegations being made against them by the reporting party, the Petaluma Police Department said in a statement.