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Old 22 September 2009, 05:34 PM
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Judge Prison sentence for woman who kept mom's body

A Florida woman has been sentenced to a year and a day in prison for keeping her dead mother's body in a bedroom for years while collecting more than $230,000 in pension benefits.

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Old 22 September 2009, 05:43 PM
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I am pretty sure she was sentenced for collecting the Social Security and retirement pension, not the keeping of her mother's body.
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Old 22 September 2009, 06:27 PM
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Either way it's creepy as hell. Sounds like Norman Bates.
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Old 22 September 2009, 07:28 PM
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I am pretty sure she was sentenced for collecting the Social Security and retirement pension, not the keeping of her mother's body.
Yeah... when I read the thread title, I was like, "So? I mean, gross... but criminal?" But yeah, the fraud... definitely criminal.
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