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Police: Daybreak woman made up assault story
Jul 17, 2018, 4:36 PM
SOUTH JORDAN — Police now say a woman who claimed she was assaulted in her Daybreak home by a door-to-door salesman made the story up.
CONFIRMED: South Jordan police say a woman has admitted to making up story about being sexually assaulted at a home in the Daybreak community by a door-to-door salesperson. @KSLcom @KSL5TV @kslnewsradio
— Ladd Egan (@laddegan) July 17, 2018
Earlier, she claimed a man carrying a clipboard had approached her at the front door in the middle of the day Sunday, and that when she said she wasn’t interested, he went around to the back of her home and broke in, sexually assaulting her.
POLICE: Surveillance video does NOT show anyone arriving or leaving a South Jordan (Daybreak) home at the time woman claims she was sexually assaulted by door-to-door salesman. @KSL5TV @KSLcom @kslnewsradio pic.twitter.com/JLgQvBA0Gl
— Ladd Egan (@laddegan) July 17, 2018
Lt. Matt Pennington, the public information officer for South Jordan Police, told KSL the woman has since admitted she made the story up.
Police were unable to find any surveillance video, such as from doorbell cameras, to support the woman’s story.