This article I read on my local news has sickened me. Her brother must be spinning in his grave.
I don’t like to use the word scum but this really is as low as you can get.
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Disgusting!
It is sickening to hear about people who do things like this.
What the Judge said about this type of criminal is right - their crime of stealing from a charity has a much wider damaging impact than just the loss of the money they stole.
The majority of people involved in setting up charitable fundraising campaigns are probably trustworthy and fundraising for worthy causes but it’s because I’m aware that there are people like her out there that I rarely donate to individual fundraising campaigns through GoFundMe or JustGiving.
I notice part of her fraud included sending a “fake email” purporting to be from GoFundMe to a school that had been helping to raise funds for her charity.
However much those “GoFundMe” stories tug at my heartstrings, I rarely make a donation unless the person who is administering the funds is well known to me and I am satisfied they are trustworthy.
“ Sentencing her to 20 months in prison, Judge Thackray said that immediate custody was the only “appropriate punishment”.
“It’s conduct like yours that prevents people from making charitable donations,” he told Pepper.
As well as serving her sentence, Pepper will also be subject to a Proceeds of Crime Act to seize back her ill-gotten gains. “
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