Cancerous
Ginny Long’s 13-year-old son was dying of brain cancer. At least that’s what he and many other people thought. “It was a miracle the boy had lived three days past Christmas,” Long wrote online. A miracle? Try ordinary good health. Contrary to what the Fort Walton Beach, Fla., teenager told authorities his mother had told him, he does not have cancer. His parents, Robert Long, 47, and Ginny, 34, were using the cancer story to try to raise money on the Internet. They are charged with fraud — and, for making their son spend eight months thinking he was terminally ill, child abuse. (AC/WPLG Miami) ...If they’re convicted, how about sending them to death row, then strapping them to a gurney and injecting them with placebos?Original Publication Date: 25 February 2018
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 24.
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