Anaheim teacher disputes Tiger Woods' claims about being the victim of a racial attack in elementary school

L.A. attorney Gloria Allred hasn't been shy about getting in the middle of the Tiger Woods sex scandal, though not everyone is glad that she's there.

But on Friday, Allred shifted her scrutiny from Woods' alleged affairs to a claim that he allegedly made about being the victim of a racial attack when he was an elementary school student in Anaheim. It's unclear why Allred decided to challenge the claim now -- but she held a news conference Friday with one of Woods' elementary school teachers.

Retired teacher Maureen Decker said she did not know of any such incident and demanded that Woods’ retract and apologize for his remarks.

Decker said she is angry because of the way the story is told -- that teachers did nothing to stop the attack. Decker said she was Woods' kindergarten teacher at Anaheim’s Cerritos Elementary School in 1981-82.

-- Richard Winton

Watch video of the news conference at KTLA News.

Photo: KTLA-TV Channel 5

Comments

[Maggie]

Um, why is this even relevant? Allred has lot it.

[Cottage Industry]

I have no desire to argue with a retired school teacher, but she there is no way she could have any opinion about every experience a 5 year old minority child had 25 years ago.

If Allred is involved, follow the money. There is a name for women like Allred, but if I use it I'm pretty sure she would sue me, since that seems to be who she represents!

[CLB]

Leave it to Gloria Allred to find her way back into the Tiger Woods saga. She tried with the shameless porn Jostlyn and did not succeed; in fact it backfired on her Big Time. Now she found this old, ailing granny from retirement and is back again trying to get an apology from Tiger. HA, HA, HA, Gloria Allred is a bad joke!!!

[Kenny M]

A case of "he said, she said" for something that happened some twenty plus years ago. It's time to let it go, Gloria!

[steve]

Woods is a LIAR. Being tied to a tree and spray painted on the face??? C-mon! Then he drops the N word. What five year old can spell the n-word? The guys doesn't have an honest bone in his body. Sex addicition? What a cop out. Man up. Be honest, for once.

[Kevin]

Her face should be allred with shame.

[Bill Hilser]

I lived on Danbrook Drive in the area of western Anaheim that Tiger did and was a Reserve Patrolman on the Anaheim Police Department during that period, and believe me, if that woould have happened, I would have known about it.
Poor Tiger is playing the Race Card for symphathy in these self-induced troubled times.
The shame of it all.
Bill Hilser
Bismarck, Arkansas

[kgoddess]

Yawn! Come on people, can we have some REAL news for a change? Enough of Woods.