9/11 Yarn a Web of Lies
This is just sad:
In all the stories that came out of 9/11 — stories of love, loss and heroism — Tania Head’s tale had it all.As president of the World Trade Center Survivors’ Network and as a tour guide at ground zero, she told countless people for the past six years about being burned on the 78th floor of the south tower. Head says she was rescued by a citizen hero, and felt compelled to escape by her promise to return a wedding band to a victim’s wife and by her love for a man she later learned had died in the north tower.
Tania Head’s story, however, was too good to be true, as The New York Times reported Thursday.
Though she’d spoken to journalists for years and recounted her story hundreds of times among other survivors, the newspaper found that nearly every detail of Head’s tale was false. … Story
I know there are people so desperate for attention and acceptance that they exploit victims of tragedies like 9/11 to gain them. They need help, certainly, but there must also be severe consequences…
Doug
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Whether there was money to her (I'll bet there was) or not, she is a scammer and should do some hard time.
I don't know whether she is a poor soul desperate for attention, a con-artist, or both. The World Trade Center Survivors’ Network conducts fund raising and, as President, she probably handled funds or at least directed where they should go. I hope they thoroughly check the money trail. My antenae tells me she may have had her hand in the cookie jar.
And there's the king of New York, believing he is shaking the hand of a 9/11 survivor. Bet he was pissed when he learned she was a fraud.
She must have terrible self-esteem to make her be so desperate for attention.
Has anyone heard or read her side of the story?