Liz Klimas
Jun. 5, 2014 10:06am
An Illinois mother was arrested on felony charges for allegedly pretending that she had terminal cancer and raising money from the community for her cause.
Alissa Jackson, a 31-year-old from Belleville, Illinois, is accused of lying about having stage four ovarian cancer for two years. During this time at least $30,000 was donated to help her, but that’s not the worst part.
“Her kids believed her story, which is the unfortunate and tragic part of this case. Her kids are victims of this in my mind,” Belleville Police Sgt. Mark Heffernan told KSDK-TV of the woman’s five children, saying her actions were “pure evil.”
“The deepest form of being a lowlife in my eyes to fake a disease like cancer that so many people fight and lose it’s just, it’s [inconceivable] that someone could do it,” Pam Bruce, the manager of JR’s Last Call bar, which held an event for Jackson in May, told the news station.