CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The Clearlake Police Department said Wednesday evening that a woman who reported that she had been assaulted and her child had been kidnapped and urinated on at a city park over the weekend has admitted she made up the story.

Sgt. Tim Hobbs said Clearlake Police officers and detectives have spent numerous hours working on the investigation that stemmed from the report of a 2-year-old child being kidnapped and urinated on in Austin Park on Saturday night.

The boy's 23-year-old mother had told authorities that she and her son were near the restrooms on the gazebo side of the park between 8:30 and 8:45 p.m. Saturday.

She said she was approached by a strange man who asked her about the child and wanted to hold him, pushed her to the ground when she refused, and then took the boy into a nearby women's restroom and urinated on him.

She called police at about 9:30 p.m. Saturday from a Lower Lake residence in order to make the report, police said in the initial account.

During the subsequent investigation, Hobbs said no one had come forward as a witness, despite the fact that it had been reported there were numerous people in the area at the time of the incident. 

Hobbs said detectives then obtained information that the boy's mother had possibly lied about the incident to police.

On Wednesday, during another interview with the boy's mother, she admitted to Det. Elvis Cook that she had lied about her child being kidnapped in Austin Park, according to Hobbs.

Hobbs said that, once additional followup is completed, the case will be forwarded to the Lake County District Attorney’s Office for review of charges for filing a false police report against the woman.