Ohio mother named Pamela Reed has been arrested for faking her young daughter’s cancer for years to cash out in donation money.
Reed has been charged with theft by deception and a felony of the fourth degree. People are willing to do anything just to cash out and fund their lavish lifestyle and that’s the case of Pamela Reed.
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Pamela allegedly lied to her friends and family for years about the health of her 7-year-old daughter, whom she publicly masqueraded on the internet as a blind and sickly child suffering from a trove of medical anomalies, including acute myeloid leukemia 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 later confessed to falsifying the papers, as well as repackaging prescriptions to appear as though they were cancer treatment medication and feeding AR seizure medication she did not need.
When questioned by cops, Reed initially tried to lie before admitting she had carried on the ruse “because she liked the support given as a result,” the affidavit states.
Just two days before her arrest, Reed claimed on Facebook that AR’s health was deteriorating.
“When they told us this was going to be the biggest fight so far, we thought we were prepared, but nothing prepares a parent to see any of this……Our hearts are shattered with every single treatment, every single tear and every single night we have to explain, why her……because we don’t have that answer,” Reed wrote, claiming her daughter would be starting 10 weeks of intense cancer treatment.
Pamela Reed’s bond was set at $50,000.
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