As one who is currently dealing with Stage IV Lymphoma and all it entails............She needs a harsher punishment, it was way too light! @vs101, you are a bleeding heart fool! I say make her do cancer ward and morgue work and shave her head for @!$%#s and giggles, then make her stand on a busy road with a sign around her neck stating her scam! Why is it all these people caught doing scams; scream: " I am mentally ill"............FRUSTRATING!!!

Sometimes it's more than just a money-making scheme, it's a desire for attention and in some cases there is a sadistic side to this, literally psychologically torturing sympathetic victims they have sucked into their charade. Believe me, this is not just conjecture on my part.

So, this is what a psychoalphadiscoraider (cypress hill) is? I detect two things in this thread. I detect this is going to be a "poor me" thread, where everyone with cancer is going to come out of the woodwork and ask, what about me? I also detect this is the thread where a lot of people come to worship at the altar of bullshark. This article is not about you or me, though. This article is about this horrid woman and those like her (we do tend to lose count, easy to do). Whenever you think humanity can't sink any lower, there will always be someone there to toss you a shovel. As for people like you and me, I offer something else. Do you know the major difference between rich people and everyone else? Rich people are always "eccentric", everyone else is psychotic.

What is going to be bad for her is actually end up with cancer and then no one wants to help her, remember the "boy who cried wolf?"

I don't care how mental she is, she's a scumbag.

We spent how much money to prosecute her? If your foolish enough to give out your cash because someone makes such a plea, I could care less if there lying or not. Now the tax payer is on the hook, paying for her arrest, jail time, probation, and conviction. If you support her arrest, I hope your arrested each and every single time you lie.
I feel no sympathy for the ones who lost much in the WallStreet scandals, giving out little in hopes of huge returns for no work? Stop being so gullible people..

If you want a real cancer story and to help visit, www.tammysroadtohope.org we have multiple scans and and physician reports and moffitt cancer center failing to detect it in time to prove it and need help now since it is inoperable due to them missing it!

I have no sympathy for ppl who fake cancer to get money. I personally hope she gets cancer & that no one believes her.

Somebody give her AIDS.

You know how this is going to play out, right? I suspect that years will go down the road and then one day, she's going to wake up and find out that she actually DOES have cancer. And then what? No one's going to give a damn about her. She'll perish old and alone.

what a disgusting person - just makes me ill that she did this; I hope she gave additional $$ to a ligit cancer research organization (NOT Komen Foundation)

alternative; move her to Fukushima Daiichi for a couple years

Where did the conscience in people like her go?

She's a sick and horrible self-absorbed thief!

This example among numerous others begs to answer the question: why is it that our society believes liars?
Meanwhile, there are people dying of cancer and suffering: yet they do not receive help.
We had an individual which we did not know directly but he returned to the area to assist his elderly disabeled parents: their only child. All had worked their entire life. But at the time, the 43 year old male did not have insurance. He became ill. and thought nothing of it--5 days later he died.Now there is no one to care for them and the so-called "State" must intervene. The two could be separated immediately.
We had a family member who had the same symptoms as did he: who went to the doctor and was immediately admitted to the hospital.
He was a US Citizen of generations...yet those crossing into the US pregnant receive aut-welfare citizenship from womb to tomb: and welcomed by this administration which has provided blanket AMNESTY for a vote...no return to their nation of origin necessary: no background checks, no verification.
But you pay if you are a US Citizen..
How many illegals sob-stories "have no money" "have 8 children" no can find work, or the Duggares with l9: continuing on as if GOD forces them to have sex and we all have to just bow to their repeated DNA rubber stamp manufacturing at Planet Earths expense while other work to pay for their heathen breeding and our illegal alien invaders!
Upside down inside out and pure EVIL...
How much longer does our sovereign nation have? The goals of the Communist Manifesto or NWO or One WORLD GOVERNMENT are in place...with half of our society welcoming it...with open arms...
EVIL vs One Nation Under GOD

People please this woman is sick. What she did is wrong yes, but the criminal that is healthy and commits this type of fraud should be jailed. She recieved 5 years probation. Probation "ain't no" cake walk. You must toe the line, report for treatments, pass drug tests, and pay for all this out of your own pocket. I've never been on probation but I know others that have been, and if you violate then you serve that sentence that was suspended. Even if she isn't suffering from Munchausen disease she still isn't dealing with a full deck. Drug dealers get probation all the time and they cause much greater harm to society than this lady did, so why be harsher with her than a scum drug dealer.

I still can't believe that people would use such a terrible illness for their own financial gain. I went to school with a girl who did this, she took it to the point that one of her co-workers was ready to donate part of her liver to her. I don't recall her doing any jail time, and she did have a history of hypochondria - but who will ever believe her or feel empathy for her when/if she really does become terminally ill? Jail time and serving the community in a hospice or other facility for terminal illness should be mandatory!!

"her family was relieved she was not going to jail"
Anyone with a conscience and any morales whatsoever would have wanted her to be in jail because she deserves it but apparently they have no integrity or shame or humility...but those are the people parading around expecting, demanding and receiving because we still have those who believe in GOD helps those who help themselves and their have self-respect and expect only what they earn and have contributed to: but that number is dwindling and upon being the majority --we will no longer be a sovereign nation; nor have freedoms enjoyed on the blood of those US Military and others in law enforcement etc. back to our Independence as a nation...when all gave all to get us here.

This woman lied. She told a lie and out of the goodness of peoples hearts,they gave to support her and to make her life a bit easier during this time. Of course, shame on her but the real crime here is she will turn peoples hearts cold and guarded in the future :/

A good/bad enough lawyer can get you out of most anything. Those lawyer jokes contain more than just a grain of truth.

Not enough. She should be in jail.

This pisses me off! Her fine was not enough and she should have got jail time!! Cancer is a horrible disease and it effects so many.... This to me is disgusting! ugh...

A woman in NJ did this, but with a twist. She first claimed that her 18 year old son was dying from cancer. Luckily she wasn't hurting him or anything, but he was very thin and she passed him off as dying. She did this to meet up and coming country music stars, who are known to do a lot with St. Judes. Then she took her plot a little further and posted on one singer's message board that her son died three weeks after meeting the singer. She received a lot of attention from the other people who posted on the message board. She didn't received cash from anyone, but she did receive free tickets to concerts and gifts. She also became friends with this singer's family who felt sorry for her. I don't know if the attention started to fade or what, but after over a year she claimed that she had ovarian cancer. Shortly after this claim someone new to the message board realized that this is the same person who scammed another singer and his fans five years earlier by claiming that she has ovarian cancer. She was caught! Before her scam was reported she "died" from her cancer. Unfortunately for her, she was seen in pictures months after she died. She looked pretty good for a dead woman. Her scam was then brought to the attention of the country singer and his family. They were in shock and disbelief that she did this. Who claims that their child has died?! The pictures were the proof they needed that she was indeed alive. They were livid! Their mother had recently been diagnosed with terminal cancer. The NJ woman was never reported to the police so no charges were ever filed. Karma will come back on this woman.

Right - $100 fine - and that is a DETERRENT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hope she is ostracized in the extreme.

This is fraud. Attitudes toward illness cause misguided mainstream thinking judges not to punish this CRIME which is as much about attitudes toward illness and disability as anything else.

The judgment says it is okay to take advantage of those who are ill - we do not take it that seriously - we being socieity.

I live this every day!

She will be doing it again is a character disorder no cure...

Perhaps one day this woman will get the good news that she has a real cancer and will go through the pleasures of surgery, chemo, and radiation as my wife did.

Ozymandias rising,

It was refreshing to see your post. Thank You pointing out a plausable reason for her deplorable actions. It's so nice to see a cluster of comments (replys to you) that share the same theme and not going off topic to push their agendas and eventual anti President Obama tirades.

I am a five time cancer surviver. The first two were skin cancer and remember being pressured in being part of a " Walk For Cancer Survivors". I actualy felt out of place only having skin cancer. Then Bladder Cancer hit and returned twice costing me everything twice. But material things are just that things. The ultimate irony hit when during the biopsy operation to declare me cancer free the Dr. punctered my bladder. The down side to bladder cancer is it always returns and it's malignant 99% of the time. The up side of bladder cancer is that it is secured it own "balloon" the bladder so the percentage of it ever jumping is nill or would take 15 or 20 years to have that happen unless of course the Dr. accidently puncturesyour bladder . This ordeal in itself nearly killed me because the hole allowed leakage to go to parts of my body that can't handle it and got a massive bacteria infection and my kidneys started shuttting down and was rushed to a different Hospital that could treat me better. The intense swelling forced the organs to press against each other and that stopped the leak and spared me from surgery to find and seal it and saved my kidneys. That's the Ultimate Irony of my operation to declare me cancer free.

What I want to take this opportunity to address are a couple things that to me are worse than what the woman did. First, I detest all the scam artists using "trusted names" to solicit cancer money over the phone. I always say I don't know you and with all the scum out there making a buck pretending to be collecting money for cancer and keeping it or the ones who maybe let 3 cents on a dollar go to research or victms please mail me your pamphlets etc or giveme your return phone number and an address I can verify. This results in a quick hang up many times. Sometimes I say to the dubious callers . I have had cancer 5 times and no ones ever offered assistance . Why aren't you sending me some money. Again many hangups. Now to the last issue that annoys me. How many of you cancer survivors noticed some friends slowly stop coming around. It becomes too ackward for them. for THEM!! We are the oneswondering about our owwn mortality and some sunshine friend finds it too ackward for them to continue being friends. Gee, I apoligize my life-threatening illness is making you feel uncomfortable. Go to Hell "friend." Thanks for listening.