I Can't Believe Partents Would Do Such A Thing!

[DLRFantasmic!Dan]

I saw this and was disgusted!!

From MSN.com

Mom taught her 2 kids to fake retardation
Mother admits coaching children to collect more than $280,000 in benefits

Updated: 6:10 a.m. PT Feb 27, 2007
TACOMA, Wash. - A woman admitted Monday that she coached her two children to fake retardation starting when they were 4 and 8 years old so she could collect Social Security benefits on their behalf.

Rosie Costello, 46, admitted in U.S. District Court that she collected more than $280,000 in benefits, beginning in the mid-1980s. Most was from Social Security, but the state social services agency paid $53,000.

Costello pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the government and Social Security fraud. Her son, Pete, 26, pleaded guilty earlier this month. Federal prosecutors in Seattle said Monday authorities had not yet located her daughter, Marie.

According to the plea agreement, Costello began coaching her daughter at age 4, and later used the same ruse with her son. He feigned retardation into his mid-20s — picking at his face, slouching and appearing uncommunicative in meetings with Social Security officials.

Social Security workers became suspicious and uncovered a video of Pete Costello ably contesting a traffic ticket in a Vancouver courtroom.

Pete Costello is scheduled to be sentenced May 11 and faces from six months to a year in prison, as well as $59,000 in restitution.

Rosie Costello is scheduled for sentencing May 17. Her standard sentencing range was not immediately available, but in the plea agreement she agreed to repay the government.

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

[mechurchlady]

That is very very sad. I wonder if she has been to a Disney Park. That may explain a few things that guests do there. Sad that the scufflaws get the money that truly disabled need.

[felinefan]

What about that woman who shaved her daughter's head and made her fake having cancer so she could get Make-A-Wish stuff, etc.? Or what was on the news the other day about this woman who said she needed a double lung transplant, took everyone in her neighborhood for major moolah, and spent it on high living and disappeared when they got a pair of new lungs for her? Then there are the welfare queens with their paper children--been awhile since I last heard of one of those. Let's face it, there's people out there who think they can suck off the system all they want, and laugh at the people who really need it going without. They don't care; it's a sick game to them. It's like these people with money and power who create a hazard and when people get killed they say it was a force of nature, an act of God, etc.. Earlier I saw part of a 20/20 report on the flood in Hawaii last year caused by a local rich fool who altered the area around a mountaintop reservoir, took out the spillway, and insists that he had nothing to do with the seven people and unborn baby that were killed as a result. Now that's disgusting.

[hobie16]

Earlier I saw part of a 20/20 report on the flood in Hawaii last year caused by a local rich fool who altered the area around a mountaintop reservoir, took out the spillway, and insists that he had nothing to do with the seven people and unborn baby that were killed as a result. Now that's disgusting.

Good old Jimmy Pflueger. He had just paid fines over $12 million for illegal grading of a hill that collapsed into the sea and destroyed a coral reef when the dam collapsed. His shysters are spinning some good stories about how he had no responsibility for the dam but an independent engineering study says otherwise.

[TMiles]

Sad that the scufflaws get the money that truly disabled need.

I agree with you. My wife has been fighting for her disability for 5 years now. My wife doesn't fake anything about her condition, and she still waits, while people like this get around the system. It is really dis heartening.



Terry

[DLRFantasmic!Dan]

Those people disgust me!! They are selfish bastards who don't care about anyone but themselves. They don't care who they hurt along the way and for those people who REALLY need it! Parents are "SUPPOSE" to be the one who have common sense and a conscious to do the right thing. Those parents should all burn in hell!!! I know that is a little rude, but it ticks me off on what they are doing. I hope Kharma gets the best of them!!

[tacoboy]

arggggg....this makes me sick to my stomach (having applebees in there already doesn't help) The NERVE of such a woman. Instead of taking so much time to train her kids and go to meetings with the government couldn;t she have used that time to, i don't know, GET A JOB or GO TO SCHOOL???????????? And then, to get the kids to play along....it is such
I bet you anything that this b*tch is only one in a long line of selfish pricks who have just enough huevos to destory their kids lives and make a profit. She probably wasnt smart enough to think of this on her own.

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