Connecticut ? The parents of a 15-year-old girl found hidden in an acquaintance’s home a year after she vanished disputed claims Friday that the girl had a cell phone during that time, went to school and could come and go as she pleased.

“She says otherwise,” the girl’s mother told CNN.

The parents’ attorney, Marc Needelman, also dismissed as “a total fabrication” defense claims that the girl had been abused at her own home and that she had found a safe haven in the home of Adam Gault, a 41-year-old man who had once worked with her stepfather. Police also have contested the claims.

The girl was discovered by police Wednesday, hidden in a tiny, locked, closetlike room behind a bureau in Gault’s home. She was pale and had been compelled to use a new name that made her appear to be part of that family, Bloomfield police Capt. Jeffrey Blatter said. The FBI is investigating whether she was taken out of the state during that time.

The Associated Press is not identifying the girl or her parents to protect her identity because police are investigating whether she was sexually abused.