A simple scratch won't cause what she had; it would be deeper, into but not cutting the dermis, so the skin doesn't shear and the fat doesn't gape through. For her sake, at least the guy had a steady hand. I agree with you that it happened as stated. I think the hoax/real argument diminishes the horror of what's been done by sidetracking interest and attention. That's what the newbies have been sent here to do.
Okay so I’m a newbie. Sort of.
I’m not 100% sure that this is made up but it has so many of the signs of a hoax. She described a big dark-skinned black guy, 6’4” and 200 lbs. That is a very specific description coming from a little white girl who would have been looking up at just about any assailant over 5’10” or so. Why does a big guy like that use a weapon at all on a little white girl. Just saying “gimme the money” while looking down at her from inside her personal space ought to do the trick.
Does anybody remember that crazy broad who drove her kids into a lake a few years ago and said they had been snatched by a scary looking black guy? The whole country was on the lookout for the scary looking black guy until her story unraveled. Black folks certainly thought it was a flaky story from the get go. And they were right.