Adelaide: A WOMAN who received a suspended jail term for duping the Victor Harbor community into believing she had cancer, has again faced court today.
Angie Emma Walsh, 33, today pleaded guilty to stealing clothing and children's dolls from the Rundle Street Target in November 2009.
The court heard a Target employee noticed Walsh was using her infant daughter's pram to conceal the items - worth about $260.
Walsh stole the items two months before being sentenced to 13 months' jail for the Victor Harbor frauds and 18 months jail for using her mother-in-law's credit cards.
The then magistrate, however, suspended both those sentences after a psychiatrist report tendered to the court revealed prison time would undo nearly two years of improvements in her mental health.
In 2008, Walsh scammed $10,000 from the seaside community after telling Encounter Bay media she had thyroid cancer and acute myeloid leukemia which had spread to her brain and kidney.
Magistrate David Whittle today acknowledged Walsh's "significant history" of dishonesty crimes and added 21 days jail to Walsh's sentence, but then suspended that.
"Your offending was committed relatively shortly before you were sentenced earlier this year ... it's put to me, and I accept that, if this offence was dealt with at that time, there would have been little or no difference to how the magistrate sentenced you," Mr Whittle said.
He also placed Walsh on a $500 one-year good behaviour bond and ordered her to pay court costs.
TORONTO (Reuters) – A woman in the Toronto area has admitted to faking cancer, running a bogus charity and collecting thousands of dollars from people who thought she was dying, a Toronto newspaper reported.
Ashley Anne Kirilow, 23, shaved her head and eyebrows, plucked her eyelashes, and starved herself to look like she was going through chemotherapy treatments, the report in the Toronto Star said.
She befriended different local groups and recruited volunteers to help her organize events and benefit concerts in her own honor, and even convinced a cancer awareness organization -- Skate4Cancer -- to fly her to Disney World to fulfill what she said was a dying wish. All told, she raised C$20,000 ($19,400), volunteers said.
Her charity 'Change' for Cure, was never registered with tax authorities. On its Facebook page, which has over 4,000 members, she said it was "started October 2009 one very late night while I was sick in bed after my 'Chemo Day.'" (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=142167031235)
The Star said Kirilow contacted the paper, saying she was sorry for what she had done.
"I was trying to be noticed. I was trying to get my family back together. I didn't want to feel like I'm nothing anymore. It went wrong, it spread like crazy, and then it seemed like the whole world knew," the paper quoted her as saying
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