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Girl wins contest with false essay about soldier dad...
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Spazkat9696
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If she were my child I would beat her, and if I was the mom's mom I would really beat her. Teaching a child that such things are OK is just sickening. My hubby was in Iraq getting shot at when our son was born. Every time the phone rang or I got a knock on the door my heart sank. For anyone to think that something like this is OK just sickens me.
You mean if the mother was your child, right?
It is not okay for exactly the reason that you illustrate. Real soldiers and their families are making huge sacrifices physically and emotionally, and to pretend to share the same suffering in order to get free gifts is heinous. No different in my opinion than falsely claiming to have cancer in order to get donations from people.
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Exactly, ... I've lost a relative in that misbegotten adventure and have others at risk there. My post was a snark to ridicule anyone who thought what this mother did to her child was proper.
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It also reminds me of those people who claimed to have lost relatives in 9/11 for various types of gain.
Totally understandable.
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I really do hate contests like this, but:
The one thing I am getting from this is that the mother knew/guessed that a winning letter would have to be something that tugged at the heartstrings of the judges. And she was right, they're letter was chosen.
So I don't know what to think about the judging. Thousands of little girls sent letters, but since a tragedy wasn't mentioned were their letters ignored?
I just don't know what to think about this.
The one thing I am getting from this is that the mother knew/guessed that a winning letter would have to be something that tugged at the heartstrings of the judges. And she was right, they're letter was chosen.
So I don't know what to think about the judging. Thousands of little girls sent letters, but since a tragedy wasn't mentioned were their letters ignored?
I just don't know what to think about this.
Texana
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/123007dnmethannahhoax.220390a.html
That's just it, the mother clearly knew that in order to win, she had to write something that would "top" the other children's entries.
She said that the entry didn't specify it had to be true. No, but if it doesn't say it can be fiction, the inference is then that it is true. ("My Hero, Why I Should Win, My Favorite Person.") The mother was so disingenuous in her answer, which is a polite way of saying, she's lying about whether or not she really knew what the rules required.
Sadly, I'm sure she justified her actions to her child in a way that made herself look good.
That's just it, the mother clearly knew that in order to win, she had to write something that would "top" the other children's entries.
She said that the entry didn't specify it had to be true. No, but if it doesn't say it can be fiction, the inference is then that it is true. ("My Hero, Why I Should Win, My Favorite Person.") The mother was so disingenuous in her answer, which is a polite way of saying, she's lying about whether or not she really knew what the rules required.
Sadly, I'm sure she justified her actions to her child in a way that made herself look good.
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Amra, I could see that excuse flying if the mother had been honest about the story being fictional. The minute she told them that "daddy" died in a roadside bomb on April 17, 2007, AFTER they had already won the tickets constitutes fraud in my mind.
It makes me sick.
If the mother just made up the story, why didn't she say that when asked who the father was? She lied again and gave them a name. If she thought the rules said it was ok to make up a sob story, then she should have said that when asked for a name of the deceased.
She's a loser.
I feel sorry for the girl, because we all know she won't be told the truth about why she can't go see Hannah Montana.
She's a loser.
I feel sorry for the girl, because we all know she won't be told the truth about why she can't go see Hannah Montana.
I'm sorry, she didn't make up her father's name, just that he died:
The girl's grandmother told FOX 4 that the father, Jonathan Menjivar, is alive and currently lives in another town. The Department of Defense website has no record of any military casualty by that name, nor does the U.S. Army have any record at all of that name.
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages...n=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
The girl's grandmother told FOX 4 that the father, Jonathan Menjivar, is alive and currently lives in another town. The Department of Defense website has no record of any military casualty by that name, nor does the U.S. Army have any record at all of that name.
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages...n=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
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I am glad that the mother and daughter have had this prize taken away, but I feel sad for the little girl. Too bad it won't be a life lesson for the little girl. It is more likely that the scum mother will blame the consequences of her actions on all but her lying, fraudulent self. Since her daughter is learning the ways of the world including values, morals, and ethics from her scum mother, she may grow up to be just like mom. Pitiful.
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I am not sure where that info came from but even the one spokesman for the company said that when she asked the mom if the story was true during a photo shoot the mother said "no"
I am still curious about the previous statements from the company spokesperson who said that the truth was far worse...
Also they already said they were not taking the trip away from the child and now they did.
Lets please still remember this is a 6 yo little girl.
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angelmom
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8TRAN1O3.html
But the girl's mother, Priscilla Ceballos, admitted later Friday that the essay and the military information she provided about her daughter's father were untrue.
Ceballos had told Club Libby Lu officials that the girl's father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said.
She identified the soldier as Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar
She only admitted it was untrue after she was busted. At first, she told them details about a date, location, and type of death that her husband had suffered. I wonder how he feels about it?
lol, maybe that's why he lives in another town.
I haven't seen any articles claiming that a spokesman for the company has ever said the mother told them the story wasn't true. Do you have a link?
The lie was exposed when people who track local deaths in Iraq had never heard the name the mother gave for the father and knew who the one soldier was who died in Iraq on the day the mother claimed. (By the way, the essay was submitted under a false name for the little girl, too.) Reporters checked with the Department of Defense and found out that no one by that name had died in Iraq. The mother was confronted about the story by a reporter at her daughter's surprise party at the store. She stormed out with her daughter.
Only later that evening did she admit to a reporter that the story was a lie. In that interview, she claimed she had told the company the story wasn't true.
I don't believe she ever told the company the story wasn't true. Obviously, they believed it was true when they threw the surprise party for the "winner."
I stand corrected it was the mother who said when asked she said it was not true.
(a quote from one of your posts LOLOL)
"When [contest organizer Robin Caulfield] asked me if this [essay] was true, I told her no," Ceballos said. "We never said this was a true story. We do essays all the time. My daughter does essays at school all the time. It never did say it had to be true, but [Robin] said, 'That's what we expected.'"
Ceballos says her daughter knows the submission was a work of fiction. "She's aware of what she wrote, and she knows that that wasn't true," Ceballos said.
http://www.myfoxdfw.com/myfox/pages/...Y&pageId=1.1.1
Yes, that mother is a real piece of work!:liar:
"When the child was asked about the essay that made her dream come true, her mother responded by saying: "We don't really want to talk about that ... OK?" Shortly after that, Ceballos took her daughter and quickly left the store, NBC 5 reported."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22424093/
You'd think she'd want her daughter to talk about the contest-winning work of fiction she wrote. You know, how she got the idea, what symbolism she was using with the angel pendant motif, what message she has for little girls whose fathers really have died in Iraq.
