BELTON, Texas (KWTX) – A Temple lady who faked a most cancers analysis and picked up greater than $7,000 from a fundraising web site was positioned on felony probation Monday.
Judge Steve Duskie of 426th State District Court in Bell County sentenced Emily Joyce Hinojosa to felony probation for 5 years after she pleaded responsible to 2 counts of felony theft of property. She was additionally ordered to make restitution to those that contributed to the fund.
Arrest paperwork allege that Hinojosa, 38, allowed buddies and others to contribute to a GoFundMe web site after mendacity about having Stage 4 breast most cancers and withdrawing $7,085 from the fund.
Hinojosa admitted to Temple police after her arrest in July 2023 that she lied about her most cancers analysis to the girl who began the GoFundMe website and others and mentioned she “has an issue with making up tales about her medical well being to realize sympathy from her buddies so they want her extra,” in line with an arrest affidavit.
The GoFundMe web page for Hinojosa says she and her husband are the mother and father of three youngsters, who “are their world.” The web page mentioned the fundraiser was began to assist offset her medical and journey bills and to assist with their misplaced earnings.
The web page mentioned Hinojosa had “battled this hideous illness for 9 years and mentioned most cancers had unfold “all through her physique.”
“This is the largest combat to date for his or her household. Emily’s contagious smile and massive coronary heart make it a blessing to know her,” the organizers of the fundraiser wrote.
However, an organizer began getting suspicious of Hinojosa’s alleged analysis, telling officers her situation and lack of signs “didn’t match the extent of her claimed illness,” an arrest affidavit states.
Sixty 4 donations had been made to the fund from September 2020 to October 2020. Hinojosa was granted entry to the GoFundMe account and made a number of withdrawals totaling $7,085, in line with the arrest grievance.
Officers checked with 4 medical suppliers who Hinojosa claimed had been treating her and found that three of the 4 had no file of her being a affected person.
The fourth supplied information exhibiting Hinojosa was recognized with most cancers in 2014 and was mentioned to be in 75 p.c remission by May 2021, an arrest affidavit states.
“Nothing within the information from the fourth facility confirmed a analysis of Stage 4 most cancers from July 2020 by way of November 2020,” the affidavit alleges.
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