AMERICANALMANAC (Lynn Jenkins) - Brazilian woman who posed as 12-year-old girl to deceive family into adoption sentenced to nearly two years in jail
A 38-year-old Brazilian woman who faked a child's voice, carried dummies and baby bottles, and convinced a couple she was a traumatized 12-year-old has been convicted of fraud and jailed, capping a pattern of identity cons investigators say stretched across at least seven states. A court in Joinville, Brazil, sentenced Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira […] The post Brazilian woman who posed as 12-year-old girl to deceive family into adoption sentenced to nearly two years in jail appeared first on American Almanac .
A 38-year-old Brazilian woman who faked a child's voice, carried dummies and baby bottles, and convinced a couple she was a traumatized 12-year-old has been convicted of fraud and jailed, capping a pattern of identity cons investigators say stretched across at least seven states. A court in Joinville, Brazil, sentenced Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira to one year, 10 months, and 28 days in prison after finding she deliberately fabricated a false identity to extract food, shelter, money, medication, and other material support from an unnamed couple who believed they were caring for an abused child. The judge found Oliveira acted consciously "to induce and maintain the victims in error" and obtain the full cost of her own living through the…Open