University of Texas PhD student accused of brick assault hoax after racking up $40K from GoFundMe

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'A Ph.D. student in Texas was criminally charged after authorities accused her of lying about being assaulted and then raking in as much as $40,000 from a GoFundMe intended to help her recover.

Roda Osman, a student in the African and African Diaspora Studies Department at the University of Texas at Austin, was recently charged with felony-level theft by deception. In September, a friend of Osman's started a GoFundMe called "Help Roda Recover" after Osman was allegedly hit in the face with a brick.

On Saturday, Osman told Fox News Digital she's innocent and that she is "heartbroken" over the allegations.

Osman posted a video on social media where she alleged that she was assaulted by a man who asked for her phone number and was rejected. In the footage, she appeared visibly upset and pointed to a swollen part of her face.
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According to court documents obtained by Fox News Digital, the Houston Police Department claims that Osman was in an altercation with a man when she was hit with a water bottle.

"It appeared Defendant Osman and [the man] were in the middle of a verbal argument when Defendant Osman swung her right hand while holding an unknown object and hit [the man] in the face," the documents read. "[The man] then swung his right hand while holding what appeared to be a plastic water bottle and struck Defendant in the face."

"The video footage capturing the incident did not support Defendant Osman's recorded statement."

Police also said they were contacted by a caller who accused Osman of running a fraudulent GoFundMe in 2020.

The 2020 GoFundMe was reportedly titled "Help Black Muslim Mother Pay Her Medical Bill," and claimed that Osman was "viciously assaulted by private security in Minneapolis, sustaining multiple facial contusions, a black eye and injuries to her leg. She needs an estimated $5,000 to pay for medical bills, legal fees, a new phone and more."

Osman also told Fox News Digital that she was being targeted by the "manosphere," a group of anti-feminist social media users.

"The manosphere [is] targeting me…for speaking out against a Black man because Black women are supposed to protect Black men from the justice system," she said. "But I refuse to be silenced when I have been harmed so brutally."

According to Osman's UT–Austin webpage, her interests include "Black feminist theory, ethnography, urban social movements, Black diasporic studies [and] decolonial studies." Osman told Fox News Digital that the legal situation is making it difficult for her to focus on school.'