plsmith
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posted on January 17, 2004 08:54:23 PM new
Ohio Woman Who Faked Cancer and Collected Donations Is Sentenced to Probation
The Associated Press
Published: Jan 17, 2004
URBANA, Ohio (AP) - A woman who accepted $6,400 in donations after shaving her head and dyeing her skin to make it appear she had cancer has been sentenced to three days in jail and three years of probation.
Katrina Combs' ruse went on for about three years before a co-worker raised concerns to police, said Mindy Bailey, Combs' former boss at a nursing facility.
"We had a community-wide chili supper in 2001, and we were having bake sales every week and giving her the proceeds," Bailey said.
Combs, 31, said she felt she couldn't come clean after taking the money.
"I only took money once, and after that, I felt like I couldn't tell them," Combs said at her sentencing Thursday. "I used the money for bills, but I never bought anything for myself or my family."
Under her sentence, she must return the donations, pay a $500 fine and also serve 400 hours of community service.
In a similar case in the same small central Ohio town, a woman pleaded guilty in August to theft and endangering a child for receiving $31,000 in donations after she shaved her daughter's hair and gave her sleeping pills to make it appear that the girl was receiving chemotherapy.
Teresa Milbrandt was sentenced to 6 1/2 years in prison. Her husband, Robert Milbrandt, received four years and 11 months, though he didn't admit a role in the hoax.
Urbana, 50 miles west of Columbus, has about 11,500 residents.
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 17, 2004 09:32:01 PM new
Would I do which? Shave my head and play sick or turn in someone who was?
I would not pretend to be sick for either sympathy or money .Honestly ~I do not think I would turn anyone in to the law for doing it but I surely would put a bug in their ear that I knew what they were up to.I would tell anyone that was running charities for them as well.
Or perhaps it would depend on the circumstances...or perhaps I am waffling....
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plsmith
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posted on January 17, 2004 09:40:42 PM new
Who was that masked woman???
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 17, 2004 09:44:01 PM new
dunno...which way did she go? I must have missed her.... 
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austbounty
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posted on January 17, 2004 09:48:01 PM new
Is that anything like saying that a bad guy is buying Yellowcake from Niger, and thereby gaining support from your peers to attack his home and that of his neighbours?
Texan Man Who Faked threat and collected support.
Would you do that?
How is the old Chinese proverb?
Steal a hand full of gold and you are a thief;
Steal a mountain and they make you king.
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gravid
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posted on January 17, 2004 09:49:57 PM new
I don't know. I haven't yet.
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bunnicula
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:07:13 PM new
No, I certainly wouldn't do what she did. It's despicable. And I'd give her a lot more than probation...
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there --Clare Booth Luce
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Helenjw
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:12:55 PM new
Absolutely not and even if I were sick I wouldn't want anybody's sympathy or money.
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plsmith
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:17:23 PM new
Darn it, Helen, I feel sorry for you now! Can't I send you five bucks, please... ?
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:20:01 PM new
Aw ...c'mon..feel sorry for MEEEEEEeeeeeeeee.
Helen gets all the sympathy.
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plsmith
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:25:53 PM new
Helen doesn't have her own chatboard, Bunz; it's not fair of you to wail louder than she...
Nice to *see* you, btw!
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Helenjw
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:27:08 PM new
LOL!
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:30:38 PM new
"Helen doesn't have her own chatboard..."
We don't really know that for sure now ..do we Pat??EZ boards are a dime a dozen or even less....Helen might be holding out on us.LOL!
I've been practicing my wailing...pretty good wail if I do say so myself.
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Helenjw
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:34:06 PM new
You're reminding me of someone else, Pat...WHERE did I wail??? Are you gonna back that up?
And now you're ASSuming things...that I don't have a chatboard.
Hahaha
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:37:12 PM new
Good point Helen. No where did I see you wail. Pat must have somehow gained access to your super secret, positivly private, only you know who the members are ,board.
Helen, I'm on some good drugs now so I can post again and read too!!!Ha!
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Helenjw
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:40:52 PM new
Oh Cool
I Neeeeed some too!!!!!
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:42:58 PM new
I wish they were THAT kind of drugs....I'd FAX you some.
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Helenjw
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:49:53 PM new
Hahaha!
I guess I'll have to order some from Pakistan. I need to be prepared for anything, you know?
It's getting late here. Hope you come back often!
Later
Helen
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kiara
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:52:16 PM new
I would never fake an illness like that.
If I did, I'm sure I'd live the rest of my life in fear that cancer would really strike me.
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plsmith
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posted on January 17, 2004 10:53:17 PM new
Ya sillies...
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neroter12
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posted on January 17, 2004 11:00:13 PM new
I dont think I could be that good of an actress to pull it off and nah, wouldnt do it anyway. Would eat at me.
People doing some pretty desperate things these days. Also read about the family in NJ who was losing their house and got the brainchild to go rob a bank with their 10 and 13 year old kids. I think they are in jail now. House gone anyway.
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rawbunzel
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posted on January 17, 2004 11:04:25 PM new
Must be the sign of a growing economy.
Night Helen.
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Fenix03
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posted on January 18, 2004 11:54:17 AM new
Nero - actually it was the girls (14 year old twins) that got the idea to rob the bank. They told their mother who rather than say they were nuts, made them masks, got them a plastic gun and drove them to the bank....
Mom is in jail (15 years), I think dad is still waiting for sentencing because although he knew nothing until it was over, instead of turning them in, he took them to Atlantic City to launder the money.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
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kraftdinner
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posted on January 18, 2004 12:52:25 PM new
What a bunch of wimps! I would pretend I'm sick in order to get a good cash flow comin in. I would pick the worst illness imaginable and go in and out of remission for years. Behind everyones back, I would be out buying jewelry, cars, and men, then when I have visitors, I would put halloween make-up on with scabs and bleeding scars to see if I could get more "donations" from them. My motto would be, if the government can do it, why can't I?. Eh? What's wrong with that??
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neroter12
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posted on January 18, 2004 01:19:05 PM new
Fenix, I did not read the follow-up about the dad taking them to AC to launder the money. :;shakes head::
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