Mom Gambles Away Son's Cancer Benefit Money

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Sherry R. Holcomb, 46, of Cortland, pleaded guilty Wednesday in State Supreme Court to a felony count of scheme to defraud.

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She opened a bank account and deposited the money raised at a benefit, and even funds sent with get-well cards, for Ryan O'Donnell, her 21-year-old son who's being treated for leukemia. Then she used ATM cards to withdraw $15,000 to finance her gambling at casinos across the Northeast.

"I'm not sure how much of Ryan's money I've gambled away, but it is virtually all gone," she said.

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Tagged: bad parenting, cancer sucks, gambling, parenting fail

• There's a special level of hell for people like her.

• This made me throw up in my mouth a little. After seeing up here in Canada how people have been manipulated by someone claiming to have cancer. I can only imagine how all the people who donated to help this little boy are feeling about his mother right now. What a shameful, selfish act. I understand that gambling is an addiction but choosing it over your dying child is just downright disgusting.

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• And she's not going to to take it plunging down! I mean laying boob! I mean?

Source: http://www.buzzfeed.com/sarahs28/mom-gambles-away-sons-cancer-funds-1yzj

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