Tuesday, April 10, 2012

The article I chose to write about is called "Woman charged with faking cancer for wedding." The article can be found on 6abc Action News http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/national_world&id=8615017. The article was released on April 10, 2012. A woman who was getting married pretend to have cancer and she pretended to be dying. All because she wanted to have a upscale and fancy wedding, wedding reception, and honeymoon. Jessica Vega was indicted with grand larceny and scheme to defraud. Jessica was received, given, and accepted thousand of dollars in donated services and goods after claiming in 2010 that she was dying of leukemia according to Action News. The newspaper had a story of vega's wedding in a published newspaper. Jessica Vega had gotten married too Michael O'Connell in the may of 2010 and the newly weds spent there honeymoon in Aruba. And than after four months Michael told the newspaper about Jessica faking her disease. The married couple ended up getting a divorce over the situation. Michael moved to Virginia and then Jessica came later  and they have two children. Jessica had a trial and she pleaded not guilty. She is now being held in the county jail and her bail is set a $ 10,000. Honestly if I was getting married I would never pull a stunt like this. Only because cancer is a serious illness that people struggle with everyday and it has no cure. And to me that is not something that you play around with or joke about having so that you can have a expensive wedding reception and honeymoon. Personally I think that is very low to do. Jessica and her husband was wrong because he knew and she did it! I do think she deserves to be in jail for life.

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