Mom Faked Toddler's Cancer, Let Him Have Opioids and Raised $40,000 on His Behalf
Source: TIME
(CINCINNATI) A woman has been accused of pretending to be a doctor and falsely claiming her preschool-age son had terminal cancer so he could receive unnecessary hospital care and opioids.
A Hamilton County prosecutor told jurors on Tuesday at the trial of Monika Burgett that she convinced doctors at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center that she was a doctor while they cared for her 3-year-old son.
Assistant prosecutor Anne Flanagan said Burgett also used the GoFundMe fundraising website to raise $40,000 on her son's behalf. Flanagan said Burgett had the boy's eyebrows and head shaved and then took photos of him to post on the site.
GoFundMe will issue refunds to people who gave money to Burgett if it turns out she misused the fundraising campaign and scammed them, a site spokesman said.
Read more: http://time.com/4895911/mother-faked-sons-cancer-go-fund-me
um... yeah...
This woman is fucking sick and dare I say, evil.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)LisaL
(44,962 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,280 posts)Doug the Dem
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(3,496 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,369 posts)I was expecting that she was stealing the opioids but that does not show.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Kinda ingenious little scheme, I'll give her that. Evil, no doubt ... but ... pretty clever and took some balls, so to speak.
I wonder how much unnecessary treatment the kid got esp. what harmful meds he was given. How does a HOSPITAL get 'taken' like this though?
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)"The worse you've been duped, the less likely you are to speak out"...
I'm pretty sure some people knew earlier, but they weren't going to rock the boat...
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)So which post is she going to taking over in the RUMP admin?
Initech
(99,915 posts)To put it in Trump's words: JAIL TIME!