PARENTS FAKED DAUGHTER'S CANCER FOR CASH

Disgraceful

Disgusting

TWISTED parents Patricia and Steven Kelly fooled their daughter into thinking she had bone cancer  and then used her plight to beg money from people. 
Alicia and Steven Kelly, exploited the teen by giving her blood pressure pills and telling her it was "chemo medicine" allege cops in Greenwood County, SC.
Then they took in their own family as well as friends, strangers and community groups with the lie to raise cash for her treatment.    Going to churches and community groups to raise money, they also went to the American Cancer Society, for help to treat the non existent disease, before using the money to line their own pockets. 

Worse still, they chronicled her bogus disease on the Caring Bridge website, writing 58 pages about her struggle. 
Major John Murray of the Greenwood Sheriff's office said: "There is not much difference than somebody going out and robbing somebody with a gun.
"What they did was instead of using a gun to rob people, they used sympathy to rob people. It's the same difference. One plays off of fear and one plays off of sympathy."
"A few months into it, the daughter figured out she didn't have cancer," according to Murray, who said police were eventually tipped off and arrested the couple on five fraudulent check warrants.
"It's a tragedy, especially for the children," he added.
"This is something they will have to deal with for the rest of their lives." 
Police said that the girl, whom they would not identify because she was a minor, is now living in Greenwood with her paternal grandparents and her other siblings.
The other younger children were placed with family, rather than with social services agencies, to provide some stability.
The couple, who were responsible for looking after her elderly father, neglected his care, leaving him to die in a trailer while they collected his Social Security checks for 18 months, allege police.
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