HOUMA – The 24-year-old Raceland woman who told police she was abducted from a parking lot and held captive for days in a house where she was raped admitted fabricating the story, police said.

Jacqueline Parfait, 551 Danos St., told detectives she made up the story because she came to Houma without telling her friends and family to engage “ in certain activities that she was extremely ashamed of,” Houma Police Sgt. Dana Coleman said. Coleman would not elaborate.

She is charged with filing a false police report.

Parfait called police today to retract her story.

“We just received a call from her saying she wanted to come in and tell the truth and that she had lied about the entire incident,” Coleman said.

Parfait initially told police she was approached in the parking lot of a store on Grand Caillou Road Wednesday by an attacker she described only as a black woman, who asked her for a ride. After Parfait let her into the car, the other woman punched her in the face and threatened her with a knife, forcing her to drive to a house on Pitre Street, Parfait said.

Parfait told officers she was raped repeatedly over a three-day period by “several men” before she escaped the house through a narrow window. She called police Saturday from a nearby house.

She was treated at Leonard J. Chabert Regional Medical Center for minor abrasions on her thighs as well as her neck and back. Doctors also performed a rape examination, though the results from the tests sometimes take days or weeks to come back, Coleman said.

Initial interviews with people that were at the house seemed to confirm parts of her story, Coleman said.

“When she came in and interviewed her story was consistent with other subjects that were interviewed,” he said. “No one denied that she was at the house.”

No arrests were made in connection with Parfait’s allegations.

Coleman said Parfait retracted the story because she was afraid detectives would quickly find holes and inconsistencies in a subsequent interview.

“She just figured when she came in to be interviewed we’d catch her in a bunch of lies,” he said.

If convicted of filing a false report, Parfait could face up to six months in jail and up to $500 in fines.