Girl Arrested For Kidnapping Her Personal Mother Twice & Scamming Her Out Of $224,000
The self-proclaimed ‘Liberal Sherpa’ who as soon as was a daily visitor on Fox Information stole at the least $224,000 from her 88-year-old mom and bodily dragged the aged lady to a nursing house towards her will, Florida authorities mentioned on Friday.
Cathy Areu, 51, faces quite a few felony expenses together with kidnapping, exploitation of the aged and arranged scheme to defraud.
She is being held with out bond in Miami-Dade county jail. Areu beforehand appeared as an unpaid visitor on a lot of Fox Information exhibits till 2020, when she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit naming hosts Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson — a declare that was later dismissed by a decide.
Miami-Dade County prosecutors say she falsified paperwork to take management of her mom’s house, siphoned cash from her mom’s reverse mortgage and financial savings account, and took out bank cards in her mom’s identify after which used them for her personal profit. ‘Each incident of alleged elder exploitation or abuse touches our coronary heart and by no means fails to shock us,’ Miami-Dade State Lawyer Katherine Fernandez Rundle mentioned in a press release.
‘It appears notably tougher to grasp when the alleged perpetrator of the exploitation is a daughter, or a son or one other blood relative,’ added Rundle.
Within the first case, they are saying Areu tricked her mom into believing she was being taken to have ice cream along with her granddaughters, however was as a substitute taken to a house. When the mom tried to name a good friend for assist, Space allegedly informed the workers to not let her use the telephone or see guests.
After docs and officers discovered the girl competent to make her personal choices and launched her to go house, prosecutors say Areu and one other individual bodily dragged her from her home and took her to a different facility.
Once more, the girl was launched after she was discovered competent and requested to go house. Authorities say the investigation continues
