Woman Who Faked Breast Cancer Pleads Guilty

March 10th, 2010 - 8:36 pm ICT by GD

By Meena Kar
keeleTennessee, Mar 10, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Breast cancer is one of the most critical diseases in women. Though proper diagnosis of the disease can save the life of a person, reports indicate that this disease claims the lives of hundreds of women every year. However, recent reports indicate that a woman, who was formerly a city employee of Chattanooga in Tennessee had faked breast cancer for five years and earned sympathy from people. It has been reported that city employee, Keele Maynor has accepted her deeds and pleaded guilty for forgery and theft.

According to the reports, she has admitted that she had fooled people and accepted donations for treatment. Reports also state that the lady has apologized for lying to her co-workers about her disease and securing sick leaves from the office. The reports that a woman had fooled people by telling tales of her breast cancer has been quite disturbing for people and many of them consider that she should be penalized for her deeds.

As per the latest reports, the former city employee, Keele Maynor is presently free on bond. Reports indicate that the proceedings of the case are in progress and she might have to face jail terms. It has been reported that Stuart Brown, the defense attorney of Keele Maynor has been debating with the other prosecutors about the value of the donations and sick leaves that she had accepted from her colleagues. Stuart Brown when interviewed by the media representatives said that his client will not receive imprisonment sentence of more than six years. Though Keele Maynor had pleaded guilty, the reason behind her faking is still not revealed to the media.

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