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Old 08-09-2010, 06:18 AM   #83
Jesse Joe
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Like jj said in a previous post; "sorry for mudding this sacred old Red thread with her scandalous story"


http://timestranscript.canadaeast.co...rticle/1168255

Woman allegedly faked cancer to raise funds

Published Monday August 9th, 2010

Police say 23-year-old to face fraud charges in court today

THE CANADIAN PRESS



TORONTO - A woman accused of pretending to have cancer in order to raise money for herself is to appear in an Ontario courtroom to face charges today, but her father said she won't have the support of her family.

"She was pleading for me to be there because she doesn't have anybody else," said Mike Kirilow yesterday, moments after he got off the phone with his daughter Ashley Kirilow, who made a collect call from a detention centre.

Police allege 23-year-old Ashley Anne Kirilow of Burlington, Ont. organized fundraisers with the help of others who believed her to be terminally ill.

Kirilow turned herself in to police on Friday and was charged with three counts of fraud under five-thousand dollars.

The case has exploded, grabbing international headlines and causing outrage on a Facebook wall for the charity Change for a Cure, which Ashley Kirilow created.

Photos on the website on Saturday showed Kirilow, smiling, but looking sallow as she wore a pink knit hat to cover her apparently bald head. In the picture, Kirilow is making fists with her hands to show off tattoos on her knuckles that in black lettering read "won't quit."

Other photos, which have since been taken down, showed a pair of hands wrapped in tubes and taped in needles.

One published report last week quoted her as saying she was sorry for what she has done.

Ashley Kirilow's mother, Cindy Edwards of Brantford, Ont. said she and her family are distraught, after having tried everything to help her troubled daughter.

"There was so much money and she's making out like it was nothing. It just makes me really sick," said Edwards.

Ashley Kirilow's father, mother, stepmother and siblings have been estranged from the young woman since 2005.

Mike Kirilow said he feels compelled to speak out to clarify to the public that no one else involved with the charity knew of illegal activity, adding some people who tried to help Ashley have received death threats.
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