DA: "Baby Myah" Charity is a Scam
Morganelli says woman claims her daughter has leukemia, but investigation shows otherwise.
For the last year or so, a young mother named Arielle Brooks has held fundraisers around the Lehigh Valley to help her sick daughter. The problem, according to Northampton County District Attorney John Morganelli, is that the Brooks' daughter isn't actually sick, and that her "Save Baby Myah" fundraisers have apparently defrauded well-meaning people out of thousands of dollars. "This child is not ill at all," Morganelli said at news conference Tuesday at his office. "Lots of money has been raised under false pretenses. We want to protect the public from any further damage." Myah was born in July of 2010. Soon after, Morganelli told reporters, Arielle Brooks -- who has used various aliases -- began raising money to help treat the baby for …
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