Sextuplet hoax couple charged with stealing
Newsweek
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Independence, Missouri. (US):
A couple who admitted lying about having sextuplets was charged Friday with stealing.
Kris and Sarah Everson, of Grain Valley, were charged with one count each of stealing by deceit, a felony.
The Eversons had collected cash and other gifts for the six newborn babies they said Sarah Everson had given birth to last month. They later admitted both to police and reporters that they had lied.
The Eversons made a brief appearance in court Friday, where a judge entered not guilty pleas on their behalf. The couple were being held on $4,999 bond each and did not yet have attorneys. On Thursday, Sarah Everson said her husband believed for months that she was pregnant.
“He had no clue I wasn’t pregnant until a couple of weeks ago,” Everson said in a brief phone interview with The Associated Press.
Police Chief Aaron Ambrose said the couple had taken in about $4,000 through a bank fund, a post office box established to receive mailed gifts and an online account that allowed visitors to the couple’s Web site to give money. The Web site has since shut down.
Ambrose said detectives told him Sarah Everson furthered her ruse by overeating.
He said it was not clear exactly when Sarah Everson confessed to her husband, but it was sometime around March 8, when the couple said the babies were born.
Apr 14, 2006
Newsweek
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Independence, Missouri. (US):
A couple who admitted lying about having sextuplets was charged Friday with stealing.
Kris and Sarah Everson, of Grain Valley, were charged with one count each of stealing by deceit, a felony.
The Eversons had collected cash and other gifts for the six newborn babies they said Sarah Everson had given birth to last month. They later admitted both to police and reporters that they had lied.
The Eversons made a brief appearance in court Friday, where a judge entered not guilty pleas on their behalf. The couple were being held on $4,999 bond each and did not yet have attorneys. On Thursday, Sarah Everson said her husband believed for months that she was pregnant.
“He had no clue I wasn’t pregnant until a couple of weeks ago,” Everson said in a brief phone interview with The Associated Press.
Police Chief Aaron Ambrose said the couple had taken in about $4,000 through a bank fund, a post office box established to receive mailed gifts and an online account that allowed visitors to the couple’s Web site to give money. The Web site has since shut down.
Ambrose said detectives told him Sarah Everson furthered her ruse by overeating.
He said it was not clear exactly when Sarah Everson confessed to her husband, but it was sometime around March 8, when the couple said the babies were born.
Apr 14, 2006
