Yasmin Seweid's Sister Says NYPD, NYC Media Have Made Life Hell for Her Family: Report

NEW YORK, NY — Sara Seweid, sister of Yasmin Seweid, the Muslim teen accused by the NYPD of making up a story about being attacked and harassed in the NYC subway, took to Facebook to say local cops and reporters have made the situation unbearable for her family, according to a screencap of the post.

The original public Facebook post has since been deleted or made private.

Yasmin Seweid, an 18-year-old Baruch College student from Long Island, was arrested Wednesday on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, after detectives who had been investigating her story came to the conclusion that she had been lying all along.

"The entire story is false," an NYPD spokesman told Patch Wednesday.

Yasmin's sister, Sara, appeared to write a briefly public Facebook post on Thursday that was highly critical of the NYPD. She said cops had leaked private information Yasmin had told them to the media, and that they were insensitive and doubtful of Yasmin from the beginning.

"The NYPD should have never been involved in the first place even if the incident did happen," Sara wrote, according to the screencap shared widely on Twitter. "It became super clear to me these past two week that the police's first instinct is to doubt your story and try to disprove it."

The post went on to say the NYPD told Sara, Yasmin and their family members that it didn't look good that they had been vocal about certain issues that the NYPD perceived to be anti-Trump, anti-white and anti-men.

"How is this an appropriate comment by an officer investigating a possible hate crime? That Muslims can't seek help from the state if they are critical of it in any capacity?" the post said.

According to the post, reporters then made the situation worse by camping out in front of the family's home for days and spreading false rumors.

"My sister may have lied but she has dealt with an unsurmountable amount of violence and trauma both publicly and privately these past two weeks," the post said.

Yasmin has been charged with two misdemeanor crimes, an NYPD spokesman told Patch: first, filing a false police report, and second, obstructing governmental administration.

Yasmin originally told police she was attacked around 10 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 1, in the 23rd Street subway station near her school by a trio of white, male 20-somethings who shouted "Donald Trump!" and tried to remove her hijab, or headscarf. The teen's account became a top news story on TV and social media.

Lead photo courtesy of the Nassau County Police Department