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An Ohio mother was arrested Monday, Jan. 8, for running a scam in which she pocketed thousands of dollars after pretending her young daughter was suffering from cancer.
Pamela Reed, 41, allegedly lied to her friends and family for years about the health of her 7-year-old daughter. She publicly presented her daughter as a blind and sickly child suffering from a number of medical anomalies, including acute myeloid leukaemia and regular seizures.
Reed admitted to even shaving her young child’s head in order to sell the plot, cops said.
Community members generously “participated in fundraising efforts and had made monetary contributions to help the family offset medical costs,” the Noble County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The demented scheme came crashing down last week after an elementary school nurse discovered the little girl was not blind in her right eye as her mother had claimed, an arrest affidavit shows.
Reed had previously told the nurse that her daughter — identified as AR in the records — would have a port implanted in the future for her cancer treatments, which had caused the girl to miss more than 280 hours of school in the 2023-2024 year already, the documents state.
The nurse called AR’s provider, who confirmed her suspicion: “AR did not have cancer or leukaemia, and she never had cancer or leukaemia.”
The avalanche of documents Reed gave the school concerning AR’s purported cancer were all fake, the doctor
An Ohio mother was arrested Monday, Jan. 8, for running a scam in which she pocketed thousands of dollars after pretending her young daughter was suffering from cancer.
Pamela Reed, 41, allegedly lied to her friends and family for years about the health of her 7-year-old daughter. She publicly presented her daughter as a blind and sickly child suffering from a number of medical anomalies, including acute myeloid leukaemia and regular seizures.
Reed admitted to even shaving her young child’s head in order to sell the plot, cops said.
Community members generously “participated in fundraising efforts and had made monetary contributions to help the family offset medical costs,” the Noble County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement.
The demented scheme came crashing down last week after an elementary school nurse discovered the little girl was not blind in her right eye as her mother had claimed, an arrest affidavit shows.
Reed had previously told the nurse that her daughter — identified as AR in the records — would have a port implanted in the future for her cancer treatments, which had caused the girl to miss more than 280 hours of school in the 2023-2024 year already, the documents state.
The nurse called AR’s provider, who confirmed her suspicion: “AR did not have cancer or leukaemia, and she never had cancer or leukaemia.”
The avalanche of documents Reed gave the school concerning AR’s purported cancer were all fake, the doctor
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