Pa. kidnap hoax mom set to plead in $700k fraud
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Bonnie Sweeten, of Feasterville, has been incarcerated for two years since calling 911 and reporting that two black men had kidnapped her and a 9-year-old daughter...
PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A suburban Philadelphia mom who staged a hoax kidnapping while under criminal investigation is set to plead in the $700,000 fraud case.
Bonnie Sweeten, of Feasterville, has been incarcerated for two years since calling 911 and reporting that two black men had kidnapped her and a 9-year-old daughter. They were later found at Disney World.
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Federal prosecutors filed papers that show the 40-year-old paralegal is set to plead rather than go to trial next week in the fraud case. She is accused of stealing money from an elderly relative and a law firm.
Sweeten served nearly a year in county prison for the false 911 call.
Sweeten has three daughters from two marriages, including one who was an infant when she fled in May 2009.
Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
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