A nurse from Georgia has been arrested for pocketing $25,000 in donations after she pretended to have cancer, despite police claiming there is no record of any treatment.
Mary Bennett, aged 29, claimed she had stage 4 ovarian cancer in 2013, she detailed her ‘journey’ on social media.
She posted on social media about her quest to complete her bucket list, asking people to donate for her to go on a hot air balloon ride, a holiday in New Orleans and skydiving.
Bennett also set up a fundraiser for $4,000 in donations so she could receive medical treatment, despite no record of any treatment.
She made a post on Facebook: ‘I just wanted to tell you all, thank you! I am so appreciative for the donations and the orders that people have placed,’
‘It’s certainly hard going thru cancer at any age. But for this to be the 2nd time in my short 27 years has certainly made me wiser and humbled’.
Forsyth County Sheriff’s Deputy Epifanio Rodriguez said: ‘She would go to these doctors and her family would take her, but no one ever actually went in with her. She was not actually having procedures…She went to the extreme.’
Police say there is no record of Bennett receiving any kind of cancer treatment.
She was also charged with first-degree forgery after officials say faked letters from a cancer institute.
