New surveillance footage from inside the store shows the boy was holding a large plastic bag that appears to brush Teresa as he walked by. / PIX 11 News
A woman dubbed "Cornerstore Caroline" has been shamed after wrongfully accusing a 9-year-old boy of groping her behind in a store.
Teresa Sue Klein called police following the alleged incident which was filmed by a local and captured by CCTV footage which eventually surfaced online.
The surveillance footage shows Ms Klein standing at the store counter, when a young boy brushes past her. The footage shows the boy did not touch Ms Klein at all.
"I was just sexually assaulted by a child," she claims to police on the phone.
A Facebook video of her outside the store talking to police was filmed and uploaded to Facebook by Jason Stovetop Littlejohn, who dubbed the now infamous woman "Cornerstore Caroline".
"As I walked up I noticed the argument, apparently the kid brushed up against her and she said he touched her and decided to call the police," the Facebook caption read.
"As you can see the kid is crying and the mom is upset."
*Make this go viral*
Meet Cornerstore Caroline
White Woman calls police on a kid, saying he sexually assaulted her.
As I walked up I noticed the argument, apparently the kid brushed up against her and she said he touched her and decided to call police on a nine year old child. As you can see the kid is crying and the mom is upset.
Ms Klein also claimed to be a police officer, which she is not.
Spectators gathered outside the store, many of which tell Ms Klein to "go home" and one woman can be heard saying "she's nasty".
That #CornerstoreCaroline story really has me upset. Seeing the video of the little boy crying after being accused of assaulting that woman was haunting. š¢ Kudos to all the bystanders at the bodega who spoke up.
The Facebook video has been viewed more than 5.9 million times.
Later, the woman appeared in front of reporters and spoke of the whole ordeal.
"As far as I could tell from the way it felt on my butt, that's what had happened," she said. "It's not the first time I've been grabbed on the a** by a kid."
She says she didn't see the footage until civil rights activist Shaun King posted it to his Instagram.
