John McCain’s widow Cindy apologized for calling the cops on a woman she saw at the airport who was traveling with a child of a different ethnicity. She thought the woman was a human trafficker. Click through the gallery for all the info on the backlash.
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Cindy, 64, told the radio station
KTAR on February 4, “I came in from a trip I’d been on and I spotted — it looked odd — it was a woman of a different ethnicity than the child, this little toddler she had, and something didn’t click with me.”
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“I went over to the police and told them what I saw and they went over and questioned her and, by God, she was trafficking that kid,” she recalled.
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“She was waiting for the guy who bought the child to get off an airplane,” she added. Cindy is the co-chair of the Arizona Governor’s Council on Human Trafficking.
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the police told a very different story. They said officers conducted a welfare check on a child at Cindy’s request, but that “there was no evidence of criminal conduct or child endangerment.”
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Cindy was blasted on social media for calling the cops on an innocent woman. Many pointed out that they have children whose ethnicities are not the same as their own. In fact, Cindy and John’s daughter Bridget was adopted from Bangladesh.
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What do you think of Cindy’s human trafficking story? Sound off in the comments!
Cindy, 64, told the radio station
KTAR on February 4, “I came in from a trip I’d been on and I spotted — it looked odd — it was a woman of a different ethnicity than the child, this little toddler she had, and something didn’t click with me.”
“I went over to the police and told them what I saw and they went over and questioned her and, by God, she was trafficking that kid,” she recalled.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
“She was waiting for the guy who bought the child to get off an airplane,” she added. Cindy is the co-chair of the Arizona Governor’s Council on Human Trafficking.
Photo credit: INSTARImages
But
the police told a very different story. They said officers conducted a welfare check on a child at Cindy’s request, but that “there was no evidence of criminal conduct or child endangerment.”
Photo credit: INSTARImages
Cindy was blasted on social media for calling the cops on an innocent woman. Many pointed out that they have children whose ethnicities are not the same as their own. In fact, Cindy and John’s daughter Bridget was adopted from Bangladesh.
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Cindy eventually tweeted, “At Phoenix Sky Harbor, I reported an incident that I thought was trafficking. I commend the police officers for their diligence. I apologize if anything else I have said on this matter distracts from ‘if you see something, say something.’” She didn’t address that she had lied about the outcome or apologize to the woman she accused.
What do you think of Cindy’s human trafficking story? Sound off in the comments!
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