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Woman Who Claimed Abduction Was Actually At Theme Park

Posted: 5:09 pm EST November 20, 2006Updated: 11:03 am EST November 21, 2006

A Polk County woman who claimed she was abducted was arrested on charges of filing a false police report. The woman now admits she just went to a theme park.

Investigators said Gretchen Morales disappeared from her Davenport home last week and left her two young children there alone. She showed up in St. Petersburg the next day and told police two men in a van had abducted her.

Monday, Morales confessed that she really went to Busch Gardens to meet a man.

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