Woman acknowledges cancer scam involving son
An Aurora woman has acknowledged falsely saying her 6-year-old son had cancer in order to collect thousands of dollars in charitable contributions.
The Arapahoe County District Attorney’s Office says 29-year-old Sandy Thi Nguyen pleaded guilty Friday to one count of charitable fraud and one count of child abuse. She is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 25.
Police say she convinced her son, family and others in the community that the boy had cancer and was receiving treatment since about September 2012.
Various community and school fundraisers raised some $25,000 for the family, and police say Nguyen took at least $16,000 of that money to pay for a trip to Disneyland with her family.
