Booking photo for Jessica Vega.

An upstate New York woman who faked having cancer to con donors into paying for her wedding and Caribbean honeymoon is being released after less than two months in jail.

Jessica Vega, 25, apologized Wednesday in court in Orange County, New York, for the scam. A prosecutor says she has paid back more than $13,000 to people she victimized.

The judge then sentenced her to time served. Vega was arrested April 3 and pleaded guilty to the scam three weeks later.

Her lawyer says she'll be released later Wednesday from the county jail.

Vega claimed in 2010 that she was dying of leukemia and wanted a "dream wedding" to Michael O'Connell, the father of her baby.

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Prosecutors said Vega raised thousands of dollars with her cancer story, paying for a May 2010 wedding and a honeymoon to Aruba. After news of her plight spread, businesses such as a bridal dress shop and a restaurant donated to her cause.

The Times Herald-Record of Orange County, New York, then reported that Vega's husband had called it four months after the wedding to accuse her of faking the illness. The couple divorced over the incident, O'Connell told the paper. He wasn't charged in the matter.

O'Connell says that Vega will live with his family after her release.

This article includes reporting from NBCNewYork.com, The Associated Press and Reuters.

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Burbank, Ill., police are on the hunt for the husband of a newlywed woman found stabbed to death in her bathtub over the weekend.

Arnoldo Jimenez, 30, and Estrella Carrera, 26, were married on Friday, just two days before Carerra's body was found by authorities during a search prompted by worried family members.

Jimenez hasn't been seen since, officials said. A Cook County judge issued a warrant for his arrest on Tuesday.

Still wearing wedding dress, woman stabbed to death in bathtub

Following a City Hall wedding ceremony, the newlyweds rented a party limo and celebrated their new union with a group of friends and family, ending the evening at a night club on the north side of Chicago, officials said.

The pair were last seen together at about 4 a.m. Saturday, officials said. Roughly 36 hours later, Carerra's body was found. Officials confirmed she was still wearing her silver-sequined wedding dress.

"It was a very brutal killing," Capt. Joseph Ford of the Burbank Police Department told The Associated Press Tuesday. "We do our jobs every day, of course. But something like this really motivates you to work even harder."

Investigators said there were no signs of forced entry into the bride's apartment.

Jimenez was known to be driving a black, four-door 2006 Maserati with Illinois license plates. According to The Associated Press, he had tried to keep the impending wedding secret from most of Carrera's family.

Carerra called one of her cousins, Sandy Lopez, and invited her to the party but said nothing about a wedding, The Associated Press reported.

"She didn't want to tell me she had gotten married," she said. "She didn't tell anybody besides her father the day before." 

The couple had reportedly been dating for two years prior to getting married. Carrera had two children, aged two and nine.

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Jeff Goulding / Times Herald-Record

Jessica Vega is fitted for her wedding gown on April 8, 2010, before her hoax was revealed.

A 25-year-old woman was indicted Tuesday on fraud and larceny charges for posing as a terminally ill bride to scam donations for a dream wedding and honeymoon on Aruba.

An Orange County grand jury indicted Jessica Vega, a former resident of New York's Montgomery County, according to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office. Vega is charged with six felonies and one misdemeanor.

“By pretending to have a terminal illness, Vega inexcusably took advantage of the community's hearts and minds, and profited off of their generosity,” Schneiderman said in a statement. “Our office will hold this individual accountable for fleecing the public through lies and deception.” 

According to the indictment, Vega accepted thousands of dollars in donated services and goods after claiming in 2010 that she was dying of leukemia.

Her story was so convincing that the Times Herald-Record, in Middletown, N.Y., published an article on Vega's wedding wish, which newspaper officials say helped raise even more donations for the then-23-year-old who said her dream was to marry Michael O'Connell, father of her daughter, before she died.

They married in May 2010 and the couple spent their honeymoon in Aruba. Four months later, O'Connell told the Times Herald-Record that Vega was faking cancer, the newspaper reported.

Orange County Jail

Jessica Vega after her arrest.

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The couple divorced, and O'Connell moved to Virginia, the newspaper reported. He told a Times Herald-Record reporter that he later helped her join him there to help turn her life around. They have two children.

“She's a good mom, and that's all that counts at the end of the day,” O'Connell told the Times Herald-Record. “I want my kids to have their mother back.”

She's being held in county jail on $10,000 bail. If convicted, she faces up to four years in prison.

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