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This makes me sick...
I'm not sure how much coverage this is getting in the US, but it's all over the news up here, and I am too disgusted for words.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/844614
Apparently no one posted bail for her at the hearing today. I can't say I blame them.
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/844614
Apparently no one posted bail for her at the hearing today. I can't say I blame them.
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Re: This makes me sick...
Sadly, it happens more frequently than I ever expected it would. My co-worker's daughter is 14 or 15 and another student in her class faked cancer. Had the entire class, the teacher and the school doing everything they could for her. Her parents had no idea, they thought shaving her head was part of a fashion statement that she was trying to make.
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Oh my goodness Gaga. What a fascinating story (I don't mean that in a positive way).
Is it weird that this reminds me of an episode of "Law & Order SVU"? There was one when a woman was slowly poisoning her granddaughter with mercury (which mimicks lukemia symptoms) to get money from charity. That being said, you see things about this in TV shows, but someone actually doing this to the extreme is mind-blowing.
This girl is smart. I'm not saying what she did was right but to siphon thousands of dollars from strangers based on a lie and even get a trip to Disney World out of it...that takes a special kind of cunning. And that makes someone like her very dangerous. Lock her up in a psychiatric ward and throw away the key.
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[QUOTE]BAH! I've been hearing about this on the news and reading it in the paper. It's sick and makes me want to kick her. <strong>But at the same time you have to wonder WTF was going on in her head that made her think it was okay to do this. Chick needs her head examined.</strong>
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That's exactly what I've been thinking. There is something seriously wrong when you have no conscience about what you're doing.
<strong>Hazel</strong>, that's terrible! I think it would make it so hard to trust that person ever again! Did she have serious repercussions?
<strong>dwest </strong>- I'm very sorry you have lost so many people to cancer. It has affected many of my loved ones too, which I think is partly why I feel as disgusted as I do by this woman's actions.
I have seen a few comments that she should have to do community service in a hospice or oncology ward of a hospital. While I agree she should be made to see the severity of what she has done, I wouldn't want to subject the patients to her.
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: This makes me sick... : That's exactly what I've been thinking. There is something seriously wrong when you have no conscience about what you're doing. <strong>Hazel , that's terrible! I think it would make it so hard to trust that person ever again! Did she have serious repercussions?</strong> dwest - I'm very sorry you have lost so many people to cancer. It has affected many of my loved ones too, which I think is partly why I feel as disgusted as I do by this woman's actions. I have seen a few comments that she should have to do community service in a hospice or oncology ward of a hospital. While I agree she should be made to see the severity of what she has done, I wouldn't want to subject the patients to her.
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Sadly, I don't think so. I'm not sure what you can really do to a 14 year old for doing something like that. I believe the school offered counseling to the rest of the class due to the trust issues. A couple weeks later the counsellors were back because another girl in the class attempted suicide. She tooks pills on a school trip with other girls in the room at the hotel, It sounded most like a cry for help/attention because she made the other girls aware of what she had done. Fortunately she was okay, I'm not sure what happened after that though.
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She needs a much better therapist, strong meds, and a LOT of alone time in a padded cell. Or at least something to make her think- but if she's this bad already, nothing will change her.
Such a shame. She's a very pretty girl, and obviously not dumb. But she makes stupidly psychotic decisions.