Did This Occupy Seattle Protester Really Miscarry After Being Pepper Sprayed?

Seattle police have launched an internal investigation after a 19-year-old woman says she suffered a miscarriage after being pepper sprayed at an Occupy Seattle protest.

Jennifer M. Fox, 19, says police kicked her and hit her in the stomach with a bicycle Nov. 15 and also doused her with pepper spray. She says she was three months pregnant. But her former foster mother of 10 years, Lark Stebbins, said to The Seattle Times that Fox has a history of exaggerating and never mentioned she was pregnant when they spoke recently.

Watch the local news report that includes an interview with Fox saying she plans to sue for either $10 or $25 million:

The Times says Fox has declined to provide medical records supporting her claim that she had a miscarriage five days after being hit.

Seattle police spokesman Mark Jamieson says the department is looking into the situation because of the seriousness of the allegations, according to the Times:

"Their goal is to find any — any — info that supports her claims," he said. "You have to take her word."

In an interview Tuesday at the Occupy Seattle encampment on Capitol Hill, Fox said she had three ultrasound pictures of her fetus in her tent, but declined to show them to reporters.

She also said she did not plan to pick up medical records at Harborview Medical Center that could document the miscarriage until after a planned memorial service Saturday, and she declined to sign a waiver allowing reporters to obtain the documents independently. She said the baby was a girl, to be named Miracle.

The Times points out that Fox says she learned about the sex of her fetus at 10 weeks, but usually the sex isn't determined until a 16 week ultrasound. Other potential flaws in Fox's story include the fact that she told police in September she was three months pregnant and then was later telling a KIRO reporter that the police must have misheard her because she was only one month pregnant at that time.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.