Northampton County’s district attorney is warning the public about a 22-year-old woman who has raised at least $10,000 in numerous fundraisers on an allegedly false claim that her baby girl has juvenile leukemia. Arielle Lucinda Brooks -- who also goes by the name Arielle Odom, Luci Brooks and Arielle Lucinda Poor -- has been raising money for her daughter, Myah, since shortly after Myah was born in July 2010, District Attorney John Morganelli said. Brooks, 22, claims Myah suffers from juvenile leukemia, but Morganelli said “it is our belief the baby is perfectly healthy.” The district attorney announced he will be charging Ms. Odom/Brooks/Poor soon.
It turns out Ms. Odom/Brooks/Poor has been in trouble with the law before.
In 2009, Brooks received a suspended sentence for abduction and contributing to the delinquency of minors.
Before that, on April 6, 2008, she called and sent text messages to a Berks County man she knew, claiming she had been kidnapped by four assailants who forced her into a van, stripped her and bound her with tape.
The man reported the allegation to police, and police launched a dragnet for the purported van that involved three state police barracks, a state police helicopter, and five municipal departments.
Alas, Police located Ms. Odom/Brooks/Poor at home, where they traced her cellphone, records show.
Brooks gave a written statement saying she had been kidnapped -- and raped -- by each of four men, with one also burning her with a cigar, records say. A medical examination showed no signs of injury, and police said they accounted for Odom/Brooks/Poor's whereabouts during the time she claimed she had been abducted.
Her punishment? Odom/Brooks/Poor was placed on one year of probation and ordered to do 25 hours of community service by Northampton County Judge Anthony Beltrami.
Sources:
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/parkland/mc-northampton-sick-baby-fraud-myah-20110921,0,4807043.story
http://www.lehighvalleylive.com/breaking-news/index.ssf/2011/09/da_claims_local_mom_is_alleged.html
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Feminists here in the U.S., and more than likely in France, claim the punishments for sexual assault are not severe enough.
In France;
oddsock September 22, 2011 at 16:22
The Pink Feather Revenge.
Link from the Angryharry website
http://www.thelocal.ch/1084/20110907/
http://www.the-spearhead.com/2011/09/22/domestic-violence-and-death-sentences-in-imperial-china/#comment-110094
I know this site deals with false rape/sexual assault accusations but, I thought you might be interested in the leinient sentences women in France get for such a heinous crime.
I'm wondering about the connection between false accusers, prior false accusations and other frauds.
Of the past several high profile cases, the accusers have been involved in prior accusations and fraus, such as the DSK accuser, with welfare fraud and false rape claims, Crystal Mangum with a prior false rape claim, Kobe Bryant's accuser with a prior false rape accusation and Michael Jackson's accuser ('s mom)a welfare cheat and accused father of molest.
I know my false accuser had prior accusations and several shop lifting charges.
My false rape accuser also had a prior false rape accusation.
I think that a big part of the connection false rape accusers have with other crimes is because they are just plain and simple not honest people. Also, they like being the center of attention...being the supposed victim of a crime gets them that attention.
In Luci's case...her claims that her daughter was sick also got her attention...as did her claim this past spring that she was pregnant again with an in-vitro baby who was supposedly genetically engineered out of donor eggs/sperm to match her baby--so engineered so that the baby could donate cord blood stem cells to his older sister. Yeah...right, her insurance supposedly paid for that, but not for therapy for her daughter? And why use donor egg/sperm--wouldn't the egg/sperm from Luci and her husband be most likely to be a genetic match to the child they already had? But alas, she "miscarried" that baby. A few weeks before this story broke she was once again claiming she was pregnant...I wonder if she really is?
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