Mohamed Fathy Hussein Zayan, an engineer from Egypt who was visiting West Virginia for work, was arrested on felony attempted abduction charges before Santana Renee Adams recanted her story.
By Antonia Noori Farzan Antonia Noori Farzan Reporter for the Morning Mix Email Bio Follow April 8 at 6:31 AM At first, Santana Renee Adams was hailed as a hero. Using her sharp wits and a concealed weapon, the 24-year-old had narrowly saved her young child from the clutches of a menacing stranger, at least in the eyes of many online commenters.
After officers returned to the mall on Tuesday morning and found no witnesses who were able to corroborate her account, Adams admitted that “the more she thought about it, the more she realized it might have been a cultural misunderstanding and that the suspect might have just been patting her daughter on the head and smiling,” police wrote in an update that was posted to Facebook that day.
“Things weren’t adding up,” Cabell County Prosecuting Attorney Sean “Corky” Hammers told the station on Thursday. “I cannot imagine being in a foreign country, and being falsely accused of something, and having the police come and take me and put me in a jail,” his public defender, Michelle Protzman, told reporters. She said that she was working to get the charge expunged from Zayan’s record so that he wouldn’t have problems entering or exiting the United States in the future, according to the Herald-Dispatch.
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