A mother from the Ohio was recently arrested for crowdfunding fraud after shaving her young daughter's head to make people believe she was suffering from cancer. Pamela Reed, 41, allegedly lied to friends and family about her health of her 7-year-old daughter, whom she publicly exposed online as a blind and sickly child suffering from a host of serious medical conditions, including leukemia.
Reid admitted she even shaved her toddler's head to sell the unacceptable lie her, according to the police. Community members “have generously participated in fundraising efforts and have donated money to help the family offset medical costs,” the Noble County Sheriff's Office said in a statement.
The mother's paranoid plan fell apart last week after a nurse of the elementary school discovered that the little girl was not blind in her right eye, as her mother claimed, according to the affidavit.
Reed had previously told the nurse that her daughter, who goes by the initials AR in the records, was going to be hospitalized in the future to receive cancer treatments, which cost the girl more than 280 hours of school in the 2023-2024 school year. according to court documents.
The nurse called AR's doctor, who confirmed her suspicions that the little girl does not and has never had cancer: “AR does not have cancer or leukemia, and she has never had cancer or leukemia.” In fact, the nurse claimed that the plethora of documents Reid gave to the school about AR's alleged cancer were all fake, as reported by NewYorkPost.
Reid later pleaded guilty to falsifying documents, as well as repackaging prescriptions to make it appear as if they were Medication about cancer and that he was being fed anti-AR drugs that he didn't need. When questioned by officers, Reed initially tried to lie before admitting she had pulled the trick “because she liked the support,” the affidavit states. Reed has been posting regularly about AR's health on a page dedicated to her project since October 2017, when the girl was just 20 months old.
At the time, Reed claimed that little AR suffered from severe aplastic anemia, a disease in which the bone marrow does not produce enough blood cells for the body, although it is unclear whether disease was also manufactured. On the page, she's shared several links to online fundraisers over the years — only a few of which have since been taken down — that raised thousands of dollars that Reed allegedly put directly into her own pockets. An organization reported giving the Reed family about $8,000 to help with the cost of cancer treatments, officers said.
Just two days before her arrest, Reed claimed on Facebook that AR's health was deteriorating. “When we were told it was going to be the biggest fight yet we thought we were prepared but nothing prepares a parent to see all of this……Our hearts break with every treatment, every tear and every night we have to explain why……because we don't have that answer,” Reid wrote, claiming her daughter would begin 10 weeks of intense cancer treatment. The plan was so “sick” that even Reid's other daughter believed her sister “had cancer and was seriously ill,” according to the records.
It is not clear whether the Reid's husband participated in the scam, but was not home at the time of Reed's arrest and their two children were removed from the home. Reed was charged with theft by deception, a fourth-degree felony.
Bail was set at $50,000.
Source: News Beast
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