Looks like she's the cancer

Jessica Vega, a New York woman who pretended to have terminal cancer to pay for an extravagant wedding and honeymoon, has been ordered to give back thousands of dollars she received from sympathetic donors. She pleaded guilty last month to the scheme and was indicted on fraud and grand larceny charges as well as one misdemeanor. After spending eight weeks in jail, Orange County Court Judge Robert Freehill ordered Vega to return the US$13,368.48 (NZ$17,763.50) she gained in gifts and donations while posing as terminally ill. She was also sentenced to 300 hours of community service and five years of probation, according to a statement from the New York Attorney General's Office. I am pleased that the community members, who felt so compelled to generously help a neighbour in need, will be given back their hard earned money. This is just like the episode of Summer Heights High where Ja'mie King pulled a similar stunt to raise money for a Year 11 formal (this is from the seventh episode - the same one where Jonah Takalua returns from a 3-day suspension and Mr G resigns but then comes back) and was found out and made to give the money raised to an AIDS charity. This sort of behaviour, be it real life or on TV, is just decadent and wrong. That disgraceful bellend went to Aruba for her honeymoon with expenses paid for by people touched by her story, but at least she will now be paying for her crime spree.