OK mom raised $20k for child's fake cancer-Plus troll outing

[jeaniebueller]

 She had 4 children and just used the youngest child, subjected her to unnecessary medical testing, apparently also hid it from her husband. Very damaging to that poor kid 

www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/15/an-okla-mom-raised-20k-for-her-cancer-stricken-4-year-old-daughter-then-police-called-her-doctors/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-story-a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory


As far as the community of Enid, Okla., knew, Jessica Good’s 4-year-old daughter had always been critically ill, her diseases cruel and the treatments expensive.



Through personal pleas, Facebook posts and GoFundMe accounts, the 32-year-old mother of four had shared for years the details of her youngest daughter’s plight, reported the Enid News & Eagle: the tumor removed from her brain as a baby, her lymphoma diagnosis, the seizures and stem cell research, a nut allergy, cerebral palsy, the heart transplant waiting list.



In response, the city of Enid opened its pocketbooks. A construction company mailed the mom a $500 check. A golf outing raised $12,000. Another $3,100 was collected by a local photography studio. And during the duration of the preschooler’s short, seemingly afflicted life, the family’s house of worship, Oakwood Christian Church, had given the Goods at least $5,000 to cover medical expenses and mortgage payments, reported the Enid News.



“he has fought for her life since day one. And now she fights against a brain tumor,” Good wrote on a flier for the golf outing fundraiser. “She is tough and loves life.”



The flier shows a smiling little girl with long brown hair and dark eyes gripping a golf club.



“She has proven the doctors wrong time after time,” it said.



But after four years of fundraising, Good’s once heart-wrenching narrative began to feel flimsy.



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The girl, for instance, had never lost her hair, appearing surprisingly healthy for a child allegedly undergoing chemotherapy, reported the Enid News. When church members offered to babysit Good’s other children or provide transportation to doctor appointments, the mother would decline, saying the appointments had been canceled. Then the ailments just kept building, and in the beginning of 2016, Good wrote on Facebook that the cancer was back. They needed money to see new doctors in Chicago.



It was the church, Oakwood Christian, that raised the first red flag to authorities.


In mid-July, the Enid Police Department opened an investigation after an associate pastor there reported a possible fraud. Police talked to community members who shared the pastor’s uneasiness, and then they talked to the little girl’s doctors.



Records showed no evidence of lymphoma.



“Nothing indicated that the child was being treated for cancer or had cancer,” Capt. Jack Morris with the Enid Police Department told local TV station News 9.


According to court documents obtained by the Enid News, Good eventually admitted to Enid police that her elaborate tale — which had apparently fooled even her husband and children — was entirely a lie. She told police she used her cellphone to post the faulty Facebook messages and create the GoFundMe accounts, the newspaper reported. On it, she would check the balances of her fraudulent accounts and pocket the money she had coerced from oblivious donors.



Alongside her lawyer, Good appeared in court Friday on three felony counts of obtaining money or property by false pretense for charitable or benevolent purposes and another felony charge of child abuse, reported the Enid News. Good made arrangements to post her $2,500 bond Friday afternoon, according to the newspaper. She turned herself in to police earlier in the day. It was unclear from media reports if she entered a plea.



“I’m disgusted,” Kendra Dorsey, who fundraised for Good and has a son who suffers from seizures, told News 9.



“That was my little buddy,” she said. “We’re furious, because we really and truly thought she was sick. We knew some things didn’t add up.”



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A doctor with the University of Oklahoma Children’s Hospital Center reviewed the girl’s medical file, said an affidavit obtained by Enid News, and determined that the young girl likely faced both physical and psychological abuse because of unnecessary tests and therapy, and because Good had convinced the child she was critically ill.



Even Good’s three older children were convinced their youngest sister had cancer.


“People say all the time she doesn’t have cancer but she does, mom said,” one of the children said in an interview, according to the affidavit. “Church even stopped the fundraiser for [the girl] to go to Chicago for her Hodgkin’s lymphoma so now mom and dad have to work extra hard to get the money.”



Online, those who had fundraised for Good and donated their own money expressed a mixture of emotions. Some were outraged, others were sad. One woman said she was “shocked and heartbroken” and called Good a “sweet person” who she thought was exhibiting signs of Munchausen by proxy syndrome.



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“It’s kind of disturbing that all of her other kids think, ‘My sister really has been sick,’ and this little girl is growing up thinking she’s sick,” another fundraiser, Josh Norman, told TV station NewsChannel 4. “It’s just nuts.”



GoFundMe spokesman Bobby Whithorne released a statement to News 9:



“Fraudulent campaigns make up less than one tenth of one percent of all campaigns. With that said, there are instances where individuals try to take advantage of others’ generosity. In this case, an individual was charged with fabricating a diagnosis and committed fraud. GoFundMe has taken action and banned the individual and will provide refunds to all donors upon request. A donor simply needs to contact our team using the same email address.”



Good faces jail time and hefty fines if convicted, the Enid News reported. She is due back in court Sept. 26.

[elleblue]

Omg, that poor little girl and her father and siblings.

[eclaires]

That's really sad... remember when someone did something similar on the nest? teachkinder? It was several years ago.

[elleblue]

Aug 15, 2016 9:24:17 GMT -5 eclaires said:

That's really sad... remember when someone did something similar on the nest? teachkinder? It was several years ago.

I only have a vague recollection. I think it happened while I wasn't posting much because of being busy at work. I know this type of fraud happens over the internet, but to convince people in real life, that's a whole 'nother level entirely. 

[awick14]

that poor little girl, and her siblings. (And father)

[miniroller]

Aug 15, 2016 9:24:17 GMT -5 eclaires said:

That's really sad... remember when someone did something similar on the nest? teachkinder? It was several years ago.

YES!! I was just a dirty lurker back then, but this memory totally came to my mind reading this story.

I hope this woman (eventually, after her sentence?) gets some physiological help

[eclaires]

Aug 15, 2016 9:30:17 GMT -5 miniroller said:

Aug 15, 2016 9:24:17 GMT -5 eclaires said:

That's really sad... remember when someone did something similar on the nest? teachkinder? It was several years ago.

YES!! I was just a dirty lurker back then, but this memory totally came to my mind reading this story.

I hope this woman (eventually, after her sentence?) gets some physiological help

I think the person who was teachkinder is actually here, which has always struck me as kind of amusing.  Especially since she allegedly has a really successful business now.  I am... suspicious to say the least.  haha.

[Deleted]

That poor girl. And her father and siblings. I can't imagine finding out that you've been having tests done for no reason and you're not actually critically ill. She's unnecessarily been through so much.

[tessalb]

How awful. Those poor kids and the father. So terrible

[litebright]

Aug 15, 2016 9:24:17 GMT -5 eclaires said:

That's really sad... remember when someone did something similar on the nest? teachkinder? It was several years ago.

If I remember correctly, teachkinder took it even a step further and said her child died. 

[ijack]

Whoa, she even lied to her H?? How does that even work?

[eclaires]

Aug 15, 2016 9:55:50 GMT -5 litebright said:

Aug 15, 2016 9:24:17 GMT -5 eclaires said:

That's really sad... remember when someone did something similar on the nest? teachkinder? It was several years ago.

If I remember correctly, teachkinder took it even a step further and said her child died. 

yes you are right... I forgot how far it went.

[curbsideprophet]

Aug 15, 2016 10:00:22 GMT -5 ijack said:

Whoa, she even lied to her H?? How does that even work?

This is what I don't get. Did he never go to any appointments? You would think he would have gone to at least a few for conditions so serious. Not trying to blame him or say he is at fault, I just don't understand how that happens.

[MrsAxilla]

Aug 15, 2016 9:32:25 GMT -5 eclaires said:

Aug 15, 2016 9:30:17 GMT -5 miniroller said:

YES!! I was just a dirty lurker back then, but this memory totally came to my mind reading this story.

I hope this woman (eventually, after her sentence?) gets some physiological help

I think the person who was teachkinder is actually here, which has always struck me as kind of amusing.  Especially since she allegedly has a really successful business now.  I am... suspicious to say the least.  haha.

?

[elleblue]

Aug 15, 2016 9:32:25 GMT -5 eclaires said:

Aug 15, 2016 9:30:17 GMT -5 miniroller said:

YES!! I was just a dirty lurker back then, but this memory totally came to my mind reading this story.

I hope this woman (eventually, after her sentence?) gets some physiological help

I think the person who was teachkinder is actually here, which has always struck me as kind of amusing.  Especially since she allegedly has a really successful business now.  I am... suspicious to say the least.  haha.

Wait, what? Pm me please. Now that memory is being jogged, most of the outrageous stuff happened before I joined the nest - it was local knotties who experienced the initial crazy. 

[picksthemusic]

Munchausen by proxy is so scary and sad. I've seen a couple of cases of it over the years in my career, and it's always so sad to see. The child is innocent and a victim, and it is heartbreaking that the parent or caregiver doesn't see or care what they are doing to their child for their own personal gain. It is a mental illness and I really hope the mother gets the help she needs and the child isn't scarred for life.

[TR]

Aug 15, 2016 9:32:25 GMT -5 eclaires said:

Aug 15, 2016 9:30:17 GMT -5 miniroller said:

YES!! I was just a dirty lurker back then, but this memory totally came to my mind reading this story.

I hope this woman (eventually, after her sentence?) gets some physiological help

I think the person who was teachkinder is actually here, which has always struck me as kind of amusing.  Especially since she allegedly has a really successful business now.  I am... suspicious to say the least.  haha.

Please elaborate. It's Monday. We need this.

[elleblue]

There's a thread still up at the old place that allegedly has a picture of her included. I never met her, even though this happened locally to me (I never joined TK, only TN). link 

[elleblue]

Aug 15, 2016 10:32:20 GMT -5 @stilljustash said:

name names, people! post links!!

DON'T ACT BRAND NEW.

Look up, there's a link! And it includes a picture. 

[pixy0stix]

NAME NAMES ECLAIRES!

[pixy0stix]

I can see how this happens online, but she involved her whole family, etc. What was she doing with that money? Some of it would have had to go to the (unnecessary) doctor appointments.

[mrshandy]

Ok I know who it is. Holy shit.

[jeaniebueller]

Um. Is that picture in the knot thread her? Because  :?  

[TR]

Aug 15, 2016 10:37:41 GMT -5 mrshandy said:

Ok I know who it is. Holy shit.

Fucking hell people. NAME.

[elleblue]

Aug 15, 2016 10:38:40 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

Um. Is that picture in the knot thread her? Because  :?  

Allegedly. She looks suspiciously like a mmm poster to me but I wasn't entirely sure since I don't post over there all that frequently.

[TR]

Aug 15, 2016 10:40:10 GMT -5 @stilljustash said:

Aug 15, 2016 10:39:03 GMT -5 TR said:

Fucking hell people. NAME.

celiacmom

Thank.you!

Actually that was my first guess based solely on the "successful business" comment, lol. Go me!

[mrshandy]

Aug 15, 2016 10:40:21 GMT -5 elleblue said:

Aug 15, 2016 10:38:40 GMT -5 jeaniebueller said:

Um. Is that picture in the knot thread her? Because  :?  

Allegedly. She looks suspiciously like a mmm poster to me but I wasn't entirely sure since I don't post over there all that frequently.

It's the same person. 


pandce.proboards.com/thread/545421/tv-segment

[pixy0stix]

I'm sitting here shaking. This fucking bitch pretended to have a child that died, peddled her blog to mom's that ACTUALLY had a child die... and she's still posting here?

No. Fuck that noise.

What the hell, people? Why didn't any of you catch this earlier?

[eclaires]

Aug 15, 2016 10:54:27 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

I'm sitting here shaking. This fucking bitch pretended to have a child that died, peddled her blog to mom's that ACTUALLY had a child die... and she's still posting here?

No. Fuck that noise.

What the hell, people? Why didn't any of you catch this earlier?

I'm back.

And yes, I only figured this out recently, because I'd never heard of the new poster or her business since I don't post on MM Moms, and I have a friend who isn't here that knew the teachkinder story (I can elaborate more via PM but don't want to post the specific info).  I confirmed with her that my suspicion is correct.

I wasn't really sure how to bring it up because I don't really post on MM Moms, but this seemed like a reasonable opportunity to bring it up since it was related.

[pixy0stix]

I asked for an immediate and permanent ban for her. I'm not playing around with someone who would stoop so low.