Ex-GOP staffer Natalie Greene accused of staging brutal “political hate attack” she paid $500 to have carved into her own skin
A woman was found tied up with horrific injuries after an alleged attack at gunpoint. When police investigated further, they found something sinister
In every woman’s worst nightmare, police were horrified when they found Natalie Greene screaming and crying alone in the woods, with dozens of grisly cuts scattered across her face and body.
It was a scene from a horror movie - the woman’s hands and legs were bound tight with zip ties, and political slurs were chillingly scribed across her skin with black marker. Her shirt had been pulled over her head and the words "Trump whore" had been written across her stomach. "Federal official is a racist" had also been etched across her back.
Greene, a former Republican staffer in the US, claimed she was viciously assaulted by three gunmen in a politically motivated attack. She told police, both at the scene and two days later, that her attackers cut her body, held her down and threatened to shoot her, police records show. She suffered lacerations all over her neck, face, shoulder and chest, with horrific photos of her injures shown in court. The woman told police she was targeted because of her line of previous job working for the Government.
Police found Greene tied up in the woods(Image: US District Court for the District of New Jersey)
But in a sickening twist , the law student has now been accused of faking the horror attack, allegedly paying someone $500 (£380) to mutilate her body and then lying to police about the staged assault.
As they investigated what happened that night, police discovered that Greene and her accomplice’s stories did not match up, the BBC reports. The ex-federal worker has now been charged with conspiracy to falsely report a violent attack and giving false statements to police.
Prosecutors say that on the night of the alleged attack, Greene paid an co-conspirator - a woman who has not been named in the original complaint - and frantically rang 911 to report a violent crime in Egg Harbour Township, New Jersey.
It is even claimed in court documents that two days before the plot, Greene drove to Pennyslvania and paid a body modification artist she found on Instagram to get the cuts, according to The Sun.
Investigators tracked fown the location of the tattoo and body mod parlour in Greene’s phone, and allegedly discovered a Reddit account that followed pages that including "scarification" and "bodymods".
According to court documents, the police also found a receipt showing Greene had paid $500 (£380) for the cuts to be made on her body. They also allegedly found that Greene’s accomplice had researched "zip ties near me" on a phone just two days before the so-called attack.
Prosecutors say that the woman was taken to a hospital, where she and her accomplice gave police conflicting accounts of what happened and gave dodgy descriptions of the fake assailants.
Greene previously worked for New Jersey Republican Representative Jefferson Van Drew. A spokesperson for his office told the BBC: "We are deeply saddened by yesterday’s news, and while Natalie is no longer associated with the Congressman’s government office, our thoughts and prayers are with her. We hope she’s getting the care she needs."
On Wednesday, Greene was released on a $200,000 (£152,720) bond. She faces up to 10 years in prison and a $500,000 (£380,170) fine if convicted on both counts.
Locals in the woman’s hometown were stunned when they heard about the story. "At the end of the day we’re talking about a 25-year-old girl, a beautiful girl, whose politics aren’t supposed to reach that level of extreme," Fiona Tierney, 49, told The New York Post.
"Now she’s got to spend the rest of her life with these scars to remind her of what she did. What, she’s going to the beach wearing a bathing suit with all that on display? She’d never live this down. What kind of a future is that?"
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