The black high school student who accused three white male classmates of pinning her down and cutting off her dreadlocks has 'acknowledged' that she made the allegation up, according to her school.

Amari Allen, 12, claimed she was held down by three boys who cut her hair off at their $12,000-a-year school. She also gave a tearful interview about it afterwards and said they called her hair 'ugly' and 'nappy', a racist term that is used to derogatorily describe African American women's hair.

They also shared photos of her uneven hair after the alleged incident.

On Monday, however, the child's family issued a statement to it was false and to apologize to the boys.

Why the claims were fabricated remains unclear.

The family asked for forgiveness in their statement and said they had 'betrayed the wider community.'

'To those young boys and their parents, we sincerely apologize for the pain and anxiety these allegations have caused.

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Amari Allen, 12, claimed that three white boys pinned her down and cut her dreadlocks off. Her family admitted on Monday that she had made it up

'To the administrators and families of Immanuel Christian School, we are sorry for the damage this incident has done to trust within the school family and the undue scorn it has brought to the school.

GIRL'S FAMILY STATEMENT To those young boys and their parents, we sincerely apologize for the pain and anxiety these allegations have caused. To the administrators and families of Immanuel Christian School, we are sorry for the damage this incident has done to trust within the school family and the undue scorn it has brought to the school. To the broader community, who rallied in such passionate support for our daughter, we apologize for betraying your trust. We understand there will be consequences, and we’re prepared to take responsibility for them. We know that it will take time to heal, and we hope and pray that the boys, their families, the school and the broader community will be able to forgive us in time. Advertisement

'To the broader community, who rallied in such passionate support for our daughter, we apologize for betraying your trust.

'We understand there will be consequences and we're prepared to take responsibility for them. We know that will take time to heal, and we hope and pray that the boys, their families, the school and the broader community will be able to forgive us in time,' they said in the statement to DailyMail.com.

The school issued its own statement.

'We can now confirm that the student who accused three of her classmates of assault has acknowledged that the allegations were false.

'We're grateful to the Fairfax County Police Department for their diligent work to investigate these allegations. While we are relieved to hear the truth and bring the events of the past few days to a close, we also feel tremendous pain for the victims and the hurt on both sides of this conflict.

'We recognize that we now enter what will be a long season of healing,' the school said.

They would not answer any additional questions. Because the girl is a minor, the police department will not say any more.

Amari broke down in tears as she recounted the humiliating incident during an interview alongside her grandparents, Cynthia and Dewuane Allen

'They called me ugly and said I shouldn't have been born. They called me an attention-seeker,' Amari said of the sixth-grade boys who allegedly attacked her during an interview with her family last week

Amari last week appeared on local news networks to tell her story.

She said she was about to go down a slide when the three bullies 'ambushed' her.

'One of them put my hands behind my back. One of them covered my mouth. They kept laughing and calling me names,' Amari told WUSA9 as tears streamed down her face.

'They called me ugly and said I shouldn't have been born. They called me an attention-seeker.'

Amari said the boys brandished a pair of scissors, 'took big chunks of my hair and just cut'.

She said she did not tell anyone until two days later after her grandmother noticed that her hair was uneven.

'Sometimes I think that I don't deserve to be at a Christian school and that I'm ugly,' she said.

She also said she felt compassion for the alleged attackers, and said: 'Something could have happened that made them do this, cause I know that's like the source of most bullying.'

Amari said she didn't tell anyone about the attack until days later when her grandmother noticed her hair was uneven. The pre-teen's dreadlocks are seen before (left) and after (right) the alleged incident

Officials at the Immanuel Christian School told DailyMail.com last week that they were in touch with the family and had asked police to conduct a thorough investigation.

'We take seriously the emotional and physical well-being of all our students, and have a zero-tolerance policy for any kind of bullying or abuse,' Head of School Stephen Danish said in a statement.

'We are deeply disturbed by the allegations being made, and are in communication with the family of the alleged victim to gather information and provide whatever support we can.

'We have also reached out to law enforcement to ask them to conduct a thorough investigation, and further inquiries should be directed to the Fairfax County Police.'

The incident also prompted outrage from the local chapter of the NAACP, a civil rights organization.

Last week, it said it was 'closely monitoring' the situation.

Following the family's admission on Monday, it cancelled a support rally it had planned for her.

Organizers begged followers not to come down too harshly on the young girl on Twitter.

'The Fairfax County NAACP, along with much of the nation, was outraged at the reported attack on Amari Allen at Immanuel Christian School in Springfield last week. We take every allegation of racial violence seriously and we treated this incident the same.

Officials at Immanuel Christian School (pictured) said they were in touch with Amari's family and had asked police to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident

'Regrettably, in this instance, the reported assault turned out to be false, and the Allen family is working with the school to achieve a resolution.

'We would like to thank the Fairfax County Police for their quick action in opening an investigation into the matter, and to the school for being forthcoming and open throughout this process.

'Amari is not a public figure. She is a young girl who made a mistake, and we are asking everyone, supporters and critics alike, to please respect the family’s privacy at this time.

'Her family has released a statement to the Washington Post apologizing to the other students she accused, and her school, and the community,' it said.

The organization went on: 'Too often in these rare instances of fabricated hate crimes, critics use a broad brush to claim racially motivated crimes are virtually non-existent. This is demonstrably wrong.

'Data from numerous sources, including the Anti-Defamation League, the FBI, and the Justice Department, shows bias motivated crimes are on the rise, year over year.

'The fact is that these type of fabrications are isolated incidents, but the public and media has a tendency to sensationalize falsifications over the thousands of real hate crimes reported every year.'