Posted on 04/13/2006 10:45:43 PM PDT by martin_fierro
American couple to be charged in sextuplet hoax
Thu Apr 13, 1:57 PM ET
CHICAGO (AFP) - A Missouri couple who scammed neighbors by pretending to be the proud parents of sextuplets will face criminal charges as soon as the full scale of their hoax has been discovered, police said.
"It's very bizarre. I've never seen anything like that in my career," Grain Valley, Missouri police chief Aaron Ambrose told AFP.
This was not the first time the 45-year-old woman had pretended to be pregnant with multiple babies, Ambrose said.
An ex-husband told police she had faked pregnancy several times during their brief marriage, and co-workers also told tales of pregnancies that would mysteriously end in miscarriage.
It was, however, the first time the woman pretended the babies had been born.
And she managed to scam a number of local business owners and the small town's main charitable organization out of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts by telling them that the babies were in critical condition and had to be hidden away because of a family dispute.
The hoax began to unravel on Tuesday, when the couple's landlord saw a story in the local paper with a picture of Sarah and Kris Everson holding six shirts for the babies purportedly born in March.
The couple had asked him to forgive their December rent in a letter describing how they had just had five children.
"That's 11 babies in a few months," Ambrose said.
The couple issued a tearful apology Wednesday evening, with Kris Everson telling local reporters: "We didn't mean to hurt anybody. ... We did it out of financial reasons."
Ambrose said he expected to press felony charges against the couple in the coming days.
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Now she'll claim she has multiple personalities.
I'l say this for them: At least they didn't abort their imaginary fetuses.
(ducking)
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Ooops, I did it again?
"And she managed to scam a number of local business owners and the small town's main charitable organization out of thousands of dollars in cash and gifts..."
WAIT A MINUTE HERE: How stupid could these merchants and charities be? Sextuplets would have been world-wide news. They believe some kook who walks in and says: "I had sextuplets. Got any free stuff?"
"That's 11 babies in a few months," Ambrose said.
LOL!
Get them psych help...stat!!!
OMG! That's hilarious...Britney/Kevin wannabes! As an aside, doesn't the Missouri husband look a lot younger than his 45 y.o. bride?
According to the earlier thread, he's 33 / she's 45.
Ain't love grand.
Lord help me, she's my age! Ugghh, 45 is hideous if that's what 45 looks like! Where's my paper bag?
I think that pretty much whenever I see a 45 year old.
And I'm one of 'em.
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Lol! I think I have a spare paper bag for ya. No one need ever know! At least we can say our innards are beautiful! :P
Carolyn
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