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City officials say the woman said she carved the word 'lesbian' into her own arm.

ADA (AP) -- A woman who claimed that two men threw her to the ground and one of them cut the word "lesbian" into her forearm with a knife has admitted to fabricating the incident, city officials said Friday.

Sarah Kaspereit, 21, showed police superficial wounds when she reported the alleged attack in December.

"Both the FBI and local police conducted an investigation and ultimately determined the wounds were most likely self- inflicted," city spokesman Mark Bratcher said in a written statement.

"Kaspereit admitted that was indeed the case on March 1, almost three months after she initially filed the false report."

Police Sgt. Tracy Jackson said Kaspereit told an investigator she had inflicted the injury to herself and that nobody else was around when she did it.

"Kaspereit apologized for her actions and expressed remorse for the trouble she had caused," Jackson said.

After the attack, members of the Gay-Straight Alliance, a community organization based at East Central University, held a rally to raise awareness about threats to the gay community.