Mother Fakes Daughter`s Cancer to Ask for Money
GRACE: Live to Mission, Texas. Did a mother shave her own 7- year-old little girl`s head and then convince the tot that she, the little girl, is dying of cancer? All part of a cancer hoax by mommy to raise money for mommy to use on herself?</s>UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: Garcia had been telling her 7-year-old daughter that she had terminal cancer. She was trying to get donations from people that would allegedly help pay for her daughter`s cancer treatments.</s>GRACE: OK. I am sick about this. Michael Christian, Liz, that`s what I wanted to see, Liz. Take that in full if you don`t mind. I want to see the T-shirt that she`s wearing, Michael. It looks like the T-shirt says. "I am not a boy. I am a girl battling cancer." And if you look at her head, it looks like the little girl`s hair has been shaved. And I`m sure the little girl did not shave it herself. Mommy going on multiple fundraisers to make money to fight her daughter`s quote, "cancer," even convincing the little girl she`s got terminal cancer, Michael Christian?</s>CHRISTIAN: That`s right, Nancy. According to police, they say that not only did she have fundraisers but that literally this woman would approach people, friends, neighbors, even strangers and ask them for monetary donations to help pay for her daughter`s life-saving cancer treatment.</s>GRACE: I wonder how far it went? I mean, to what length did she go to convince her little girl that she is dying of cancer. Unleash the lawyers. Joining me, Andell Brown, Randy Kessler, also with me, clinical psychologist Dr. Patricia Saunders. OK, Andell Brown, don`t hide the ball this time. Just give me your best defense.</s>BROWN: Well, Nancy, we have a mother who is doing all she can to take care of her daughter during a difficult economy. We don`t know whether or not this young lady was sick or what`s going on. All we know is that her mother is doing her best to take care of that child.</s>GRACE: She`s not sick.</s>BROWN: And that`s not a crime.</s>GRACE: We know she`s not sick, Andell. OK, Randy Kessler --</s>BROWN: Well, that`s what they`re saying now.</s>GRACE: When Andell Brown says --</s>BROWN: We don`t know when --</s>GRACE: -- she`s doing all she can to take care of her little girl. Does that include convincing the child she is dying?</s>KESSLER: No. I was --</s>GRACE: And allegedly shaving her head? And making her wear a T-shirt that says, I`m not a boy, I`m a girl fighting cancer?</s>KESSLER: So maybe you have a case for custody. Maybe custody this child should be going somewhere else. Maybe this mother doesn`t understand what it`s like to have cancer. But to put her in jail? She should spend time paying back people that could use the money for cancer.</s>GRACE: Yes.</s>KESSLER: If there is any penalty it should only be for people who have cancer that need the money that she got. Not jail.</s>GRACE: OK, you know what? The two of you are talking in circles. Pat Saunders, give it to me in a nut shell.</s>SAUNDERS: Exploitation of this little girl, the way that it is done is utterly traumatic. And it`s going to affect this kid for the rest of her life. This is fraud. It`s felony.</s>GRACE: Yes. That is the story she`ll be telling around the camp fire one day. Guys, let`s remember, American hero. Army Sergeant Clarence Floyd Jr. Just 28. Newark, New Jersey. Loved basketball. Helped in Hurricane Floyd relief operations. Mother, Valerie, stepfather, James, widow, Deidre. Five children. Clarence Floyd, American hero. And bombshell, our signature handcuff jewelry available. Special coupon is NancyGrace.com. All proceeds to child abuse victims. Everyone, as we head into the Christmas season, I want to wish you a very merry Christmas and thank you for all the prayers you gave me and my family during my father`s illness. He will be wishing us merry Christmas from heaven. I`ll see you Monday night. 8:00 sharp. Good night, friend. END