Little girl getting kicked out of KFC for facial scars might be a hoax

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**hotsauceman1**

KFC donated $30,000 to the family of three-year-old Victoria Wilcher after they claimed an employee at a store in Jackson, Miss. asked them to leave because Victoria's scars—leftover from an attack by her grandfather's pit bulls—were scaring customers. But according to a new report in the Laurel Leader-Call, the whole thing was a hoax and never happened.

The company publicly apologized for the incident and donated the money to help with the cost Victoria's medical bills. Apparently, the entire incident in the restaurant was cooked up as an elaborate publicity stunt to raise money. After the KFC franchise where the incident allegedly took place became suspicious of the timeline presented by Victoria's family, they hired an independent investigator, who has yet to release their final report.

But a source tells the Laurel Leader-Call that the story completely falls apart upon basic fact-checking: Security footage does not put Victoria or her grandmother, who claimed to be with her, in the KFC (or even another KFC) the day the incident supposedly occurred. And apparently, no one made their order—for mashed potatoes and sweet tea—that day, either. No one even ordered mashed potatoes and sweet tea as part of a larger order.

The family had been raising money on GoFundMe for Victoria's medical bills, and as The Clarion-Ledger reports, their widely-reported story gave a serious boost to donations:

More than $135,000 has been raised through the online donation site, gofundme.com, since June 13. The fund was created by Bates on April 28. The funding before the chicken caper came from seven donors for a total of $595.
Doctors have even agreed to waive their fees—a Las Vegas surgeon offered Victoria's family free plastic surgery. And the Frank L. Stiles Foundation has pledged to cover all the costs of reconstructing Victoria's face.

According to Bill Kellum, the lawyer representing Kelly Mullins, Victoria's grandmother, said that the family has not decided whether or not to take the money from KFC. But apparently, KFC will honor the donation even if the incident is proven to have been faked:

Dick West, who is the president of West Quality Food, one of the largest franchisees in the KFC chain and the owner of the local KFCs, also declined comment. However, on Saturday night, he made his feelings quite clear on the Facebook page of a Jackson television station when he posted "When the allegation was first made, KFC pledged $30,000 to go to medical expenses and started an investigation to find the truth. They have pledged the money even if it is proven that the incident never happened. At this point their story is full of holes. Any thinking person who follows their timeline can see it. The event at KFC never happened."

This pisses me off, The person who did this needs to be held accountable for the supidity they did for defrauding a company.

**MrDwhitey**

It should also be noted that the girl's incident was caused by three of the families pitbulls.

The family is gak, and I feel bad for the little girl.

**curran12**

If that pans out to be true, I'd be pissed off as well. Full agreement here, hotsauce.

**Gentleman_Jellyfish**

And this is why I don't give my money to anybody

**Sigvatr**

I'd sue the living hell out of them.

**Dreadclaw69**

Gentleman_Jellyfish wrote:
And this is why I don't give my money to anybody

Charity starts at home

**Manchu**

KFC is doing this right -- prove the story is a hoax while still giving the money. It's a bit like saying, "I'm sorry your situation is gak, little girl. Try not to be gak when you grow up."

**remilia_scarlet**

If the family can't raise pitbulls right, why the feth are they allowed to keep the kid?

**Ouze**

Something I read on Facebook wasn't true? IMPOSSIBLE.

**Jihadin**

Ouze wrote:
Something I read on Facebook wasn't true? IMPOSSIBLE.

Now I'm worried about you Ouze. I be really mad at you if you go unhinge about a post that would be negative towards you on Facebook

**LordofHats**

Props to KFC for giving the girl the money anyway. It's like saying "we know you lied, but we're still decent people"

**MrDwhitey**

I prefer "We know your grandparents/parents are scum, but we want you to have the plastic surgery, as it's not your fault they're scum.

P.S. How's that for PR?"

**Dreadclaw69**

Ouze wrote:
Something I read on Facebook wasn't true? IMPOSSIBLE.

You mean all those Likes didn't cure cancer?

**Jihadin**

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Ouze wrote:
Something I read on Facebook wasn't true? IMPOSSIBLE.

You mean all those Likes didn't cure cancer?

Dude.............

**Medium of Death**

I hope the girl gets all the money for the surgery. I take it the KFC donation has some kind of clause that the money needs to be used for surgery? The separate donation page presumably wouldn't be?

Hopefully some fraud charges present themselves. I found this story fairly unbelievable to begin with.

**DarkTraveler777**

I don't know how I feel about this.

KFC continuing to honor their pledge is great for the little girl, but won't that payday just encourage more false accusations in the future?

Are their legal ramifications for making a false claim like this?

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

legal ramifications, certainly, but (probably) there would have to be a complaint and if KFC are going to give them the cash anyway they are hardly likely to complain

The again local police or social services might be encouraged to investigate the use of a minor child in a scam which is probably significantly more likely to result in jail time.....

**Daemonhammer**

Im suprised nobody is considering the posibility of a cover up by kfc, imo they could have given the money to that family to keep them quiet.

**curran12**

Daemonhammer wrote:
Im suprised nobody is considering the posibility of a cover up by kfc, imo they could have given the money to that family to keep them quiet.

Because KFC are masters of subterfuge and conspiracy.

**motyak**

curran12 wrote:
Daemonhammer wrote:
Im suprised nobody is considering the posibility of a cover up by kfc, imo they could have given the money to that family to keep them quiet.

Because KFC are masters of subterfuge and conspiracy.

Yeah, that's probably one of the least likely of ideas, up there with the little girl actually being an alien. If it was hush money, and the evil corporation was being evil, why would they keep offering the money once it wasn't hushed? I mean, it was never really hushed in the first place, they used the incident to get recognition for their fund raising, why would you 'pay money to keep them quiet' when they are doing the exact opposite of quiet?

**Jihadin**

They're competing with Popeye's so no negative propaganda

Which I admit I go out my way about 23 miles for Popeye chickens while six miles away is a KFC

**Daemonhammer**

curran12 wrote:
Daemonhammer wrote:
Im suprised nobody is considering the posibility of a cover up by kfc, imo they could have given the money to that family to keep them quiet.

Because KFC are masters of subterfuge and conspiracy.

They are working for the illuminati. Think about it, the name kfc has 3 letters, and a triangle has 3 sides. Im sure you can connect he dots.

**MrDwhitey**

But if it's already got the sides, it no longer has dots!

**Jihadin**

The Dragon got them

**d-usa**

Daemonhammer wrote:
curran12 wrote:
Daemonhammer wrote:
Im suprised nobody is considering the posibility of a cover up by kfc, imo they could have given the money to that family to keep them quiet.

Because KFC are masters of subterfuge and conspiracy.

They are working for the illuminati. Think about it, the name kfc has 3 letters, and a triangle has 3 sides. Im sure you can connect he dots.

Are you saying that the girl doesn't have scars, but that she is in fact one of the lizard people and it was a case of her disguise failing?

**Ouze**

Daemonhammer wrote:
Im suprised nobody is considering the posibility of a cover up by kfc, imo they could have given the money to that family to keep them quiet.

Just another dirty trick routinely pulled by Big Chicken and the poultry-media complex.

**Medium of Death**

Everybody knows that the Lizard people are being controlled by the true masters... Crab People.

Does Dakka Bingo have a conspiracy tile?

If not you need to make a "Big Chicken" style one. I'm thinking a chick in a massive white cowboy hat.

Also I laughed really loud and it's 4am. Neighbours will love me.

**MrDwhitey**

I live in a detached. I laugh as loudly and maniacally as I wish.

**Jimsolo**

Manchu wrote:
KFC is doing this right -- prove the story is a hoax while still giving the money. It's a bit like saying, "I'm sorry your situation is gak, little girl. Try not to be gak when you grow up."

This.

**sebster**

I wish KFC had looked in to this before handing over the cash. Even proving the story false and still handing over money would be a hell of a different thing than what happened.

And I hope they pursue the fraudsters to the full extent of the law.

Dreadclaw69 wrote:
Charity starts at home

That's not what that quote means. It isn't an excuse to be charitable at home and then stop being charitable anywhere else.

It's a call on people to be good people in their own homes, on the belief that such goodness will be carried with them when they go out in to the world.

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Daemonhammer wrote:
Im suprised nobody is considering the posibility of a cover up by kfc, imo they could have given the money to that family to keep them quiet.

The story is all over the internet and across facebook. As far as hush money goes its the worst spent $30,000 I've ever seen.

Second up, the money was expressly given as a donation. KFC did it that way to make the point that they are not accepting the family's version of events, but it also means that as a donation it doesn't come with any strings attached, and so can't be used to make the family stay silent.