Mom who blogged about son, 2, being bullied for wearing a pink headband at Walmart is self-confessed 'pathological liar' accused of making up story

Kathleen Carpenter confessed to being a 'pathological liar' in the past on her blog

Sheriff's deputies suggested in a police report the incident may be 'all made up' and internet skeptics claim it may have been a lie



Carpenter has since pulled down her blog 'A Mother Thing' and Huffington Post, which originally published her account, has now removed it



Carpenter was assessed by a mental heath center after threatening suicide following the blog post going viral

She never reported the attack to Walmart management or police



Last weekend she reported being harassed after she received more than 11,000 emails



A Florida mother who blogged that her two-year-old son was attacked at Walmart for wearing a pink headband is a self-confessed 'pathological liar' who police believe may have 'made up' the entire story.

Lake County Sheriff's deputies said Walmart was still searching for any evidence that Kathleen Carpenter was in fact in the Clermont Walmart the day she claimed an unknown man yanked the headband off Dexter, 2, pushed him and hurled homophobic abuse at them both.

The woman failed to report the alleged assault to Walmart management or police but blogged about it for the Huffington Post, sparking intense outrage about the treatment from LGBT supporters across the internet.



The news website has now pulled the article and a sheriff's report read: 'Based on the continuing media response through Facebook and generated response to the incident by online subscribers, possible video of the incident may be obtained and viewed to in fact verify that the incident actually did occur or if it was all made up.'



Made up? Kathleen Carpenter, pictured, confessed on her blog to being a 'pathological liar' and embellishing stories

Meanwhile, internet skeptics have revealed Carpenter, who writes under the name, Katie Vyktoriah, described herself as having been a pathological liar in the past.

'It didn’t matter what I was discussing,' she wrote on her blog 'A Mother Thing' in November 2011. 'If I saw the chance to embellish in some way, I jumped on it, re-telling the same story again and again to different groups with different details.



Elsewhere on her blog she claimed to have survived three failed kidnapping attempts and one successful one; to have been a stewardess for an airline and quit just weeks before the flight crashed twice in three months and to have missed catching a train that later crashed.



She also claimed to suffer from Celiac disease, diabetes, lactose intolerance, BPD, manic depression, ADHD, and declared her breasts were so spectacular they cause bar fights.

When called on the truthfulness of these claims, Katie responded, according to Get off My Internets : 'Yes, much of that list was tongue in cheek to drag out some of my sillier stories into much bigger dramas than they were. When I wrote it more than a year ago, I drew people's attention to it as a FUNNY (though accurate) representation of some of the stuff I’ve been through in my life.'

Verbal assault: The mother of two said her son was called a f***** for wearing a pink headband to Walmart

A Huffington Post editor wrote that they pulled the blog at Carpenter's request.

'HuffPost provides a platform for bloggers to share their thoughts and experiences,' it said in the editor's note. 'In a post published last week, an author described witnessing an incident that is now being investigated by local law enforcement. At the blogger's request, we have removed the post. We have also confirmed with investigators that they are in contact with the author.



Reporting deputies committed Carpenter for a psychiatric assessment earlier this week after she began talking about suicide.

The woman sad she became stressed from receiving a barrage of threatening phone calls and emails. Carpenter told Polk County police the family had been inundated with threats since details of the incident were published.



After she reported the harassing calls over the weekend, the mother-of-two was taken to a hospital as she struggled to cope with the publicity, according to the Orlando Sentinel .

Concerned for her well-being, police arranged for Carpenter to have a mental health assessment, under Florida's Baker's Act.

As well as phone calls, the mother-of-two received more than 11,000 emails.

Harassed: Kathleen Carpenter, pictured with Mark Reed and their children, was committed for threatening suicide after the blog went viral

In a police report Carpenter told deputies 'that the attention obtained by her story and the negative comments and communications to her had become too much stress and she could not handle the situation ... anymore,' and was thinking of killing herself, the Orlando Sentinel reported .

In her original blog post, she explained that a man approached her son at the check out and knocked a pink hairband from his head, which he had been wearing after playing dress up.

She claimed the man then said: 'Your son is a f****** f****t. He'll get shot for it one day,' before walking off and leaving Carpenter shaking as she tried to comfort her son.

Some people doubted her story immediately and questioned her decision to not inform police.

The 31-year-old has since closed her blog and Twitter account and, in a Facebook post seen by News 13 , she said: 'I am going to be offline for the next while until all of this is resolved.'

In her blog, she explained how she confronted a stranger who had knocked the headband from her son and told him: 'You'll thank me one day little man.'

Carpenter said in her blog that her son just enjoyed playing dress up, and added that two-year-old children did not have any sexuality.

MailOnline has attempted to contact Carpenter to request a comment on the claims but was unsuccessful.





