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Woman Allegedly Fakes Cancer Again

08-30) 14:25 PDT Bloomington, Ind. (AP) --

A woman sentenced earlier this year to probation for faking cancer and collecting money from fundraisers has been arrested for allegedly deceiving her employers with a similar scheme.

Brookelyn Walters, 26, faces a preliminary charge of theft after convincing the owners of a gymnastics business that she had leukemia, police said.

Mike and Erin Booher, owners of Bloomington's Rising Star Gymnastics, said they felt so moved by her story that Walters stayed in their home for a month so they could care for her.

"Our trust just sort of kept us going with her, and our pity, too," Erin Booher said.

While she was a student at Ball State, Walters shaved her head and pretended to be deaf for three years, leading Ball State officials to provide an interpreter for her to attend classes, authorities said. A sorority and fraternity also gave Walters $1,000 raised at a benefit.

A Delaware Circuit Court judge sentenced her in March to four years probation after she pleaded guilty but mentally ill to felony charges.

Walters moved to Bloomington earlier this year and had been working at Rising Star since February, using a fake name, police said. In April, Walters told the owners that she had been diagnosed with leukemia, a form of cancer.

The Boohers organized a fundraiser earlier this month at which they held a cartwheel-a-thon and raised about $4,000, police said.


I really, really want to walk into the room where this.. person is sitting, whip out a MP-5, and blow her to pieces while screaming "At least you don't have cancer, bitch!!"

And that's the most calm and rational thing I want to do to her.

Date: 30 Aug 2005 23:04 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thingunderthest.livejournal.com
I know these people exist, but part of me still has trouble remembering that there are such complete shits out there.

Date: 30 Aug 2005 23:11 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] sinboy.livejournal.com
Personaly, I suggest feeding her uranium and giving her radon to breathe.

Date: 30 Aug 2005 23:14 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] caraig.livejournal.com
As someone who lost their mother to cancer this year, and my father soon after from grief... this person is really, really not right in the head. I can't get enough anger up in me to really hate her, and I think this is the first time I've ever felt pity for someone who's done something like this. Maybe it's just hard for me to imagine anyone doing this with malicious or selfish intent, at least without something emotionally wrong with her.

That being said, what she's doing is wrong and she needs to be corrected. And if she can't be corrected, this has to be an albatross about her neck, and she simply cannot be trusted ever again. I imagine that isn't all that horrible a thing at first blush.... :/

MP-5?

Date: 31 Aug 2005 11:48 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fearsclave.livejournal.com
Personally, I would have thought that a 12-gauge pump loaded with magnum deer slugs would be much more therapeutic and emotionally satisfying... but to each his own :).

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