A woman in Ohio has pleaded guilty to faking her daughter's terminal cancer in a ruse to raise thousands of dollars in online donations.
Lindsey Abbuhl, 35, from Canton has been sentenced to six years in prison after admitting that she had lied publicly about her 11-year-old daughter’s illness in order to make money through a GoFundMe page she set up under the guise of raising money to pay for medical treatments.
The deceptive mum had even gone so far as to tell her daughter that she was dying of cancer, a lie which the 11-year-old believed and one that had prompted her to start preparing for her own death and funeral.
