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Zahna Eklund & John Bett

Woman 'faked pregnancy and made up partner' to bag maternity leave from £81k-a-year job

A woman allegedly faked being pregnant in order to get paid maternity leave from her $100,000 (£81,600) a year job, but was caught in her lie by her employer when her prosthetic baby bump fell off.

Robin Folsom, from the US, worked as the Director of External Affairs at Georgia Vocational Rehabilitation Agency and told her bosses she was expecting a baby and had even got them to agree to arrange 265 hours of paid time off for her before one of her co-workers noticed something suspicious.

The co-worker reportedly saw 43-year-old Folsom's baby bump "come away" from her body and reported it to their bosses, and after an investigation, it was discovered that she had been wearing a prosthetic baby bump in order to pull off her fake pregnancy scheme.

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