Woman Faked Terminal Cancer To Get Dream Wedding

[ohiosmith]

A former resident of New York, 25-year-old Jessica Vega has been charged for lying about having leukemia in order to get lavish wedding gifts and money. People donated to the woman after she made them believe that she was dying. An Orange County grand jury has indicted her with five counts of grand larceny and one count of scheme to defraud for accepting thousands of dollars worth of items and donated services for her big day. Vega got married in 2010, and she and her husband, Michael O’Connell, went to Aruba for their honeymoon. However, four months later O’Connell revealed to people that his new wife faked the illness. I’m guessing he thought her actions were just as dirty as everyone else, because they allegedly divorced over the incident (according to AP). O’Connell says that he wasn’t aware that she was faking when they got married (sounds like someone got trapped…), and when he found out, he helped with the attorney general’s investigation. O’Connell and Vega have two kids now, and despite how bad this makes Vega look, her former husband says, “She’s a good mom, and that’s all that counts at the end of the day. I want my kids to have their mother back.” He believes that she needs mental health treatment rather than jail.

Link: http://news.gkrom.com/articles/woman-pretends-to-have-terminal-cancer-to-obtain-lavish-wedding

[gratuitous]

1. Some localities treat this pretty seriously

There was a woman in Vancouver, Washington - Bethany Storro - who claimed to have been attacked by an African American woman who threw acid in her face. The community outpouring of support and money was pretty heavy, and then it was revealed that the attack was a hoax. Ms. Storro had thrown acid in her own face, permanently disfiguring herself. Charges were brought because she had used some of the money donated to her for a little shopping spree, as well as for her medical bills.

Ms. Vega might find out just how angry this kind of stunt makes people.

[LynneSin]

2. remember this nut job

Claimed a bunch of black men attacked her and carved a 'B' in her face because they were Obama supporters and she was coming from a GOP rally.

[RedCloud]

3. Shouldn't she have faked orgasms to get the dream wedding?

I bet that has never happened though.

[ohiosmith]

4. I confess. I did.

[BlueIris]

5. Appalling. (That she would lie, not face consequences.)

Holy. Crap.

If I ever get married, I want a nice wedding. I want lots of nice things. But how. could. anyone. lie about cancer?

Especially just to manipulate people?

That is insane. And therapy's not enough to make her recognize the wrongs of her behavior, if you ask me. Here's hoping for jail.