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TexasTowelie

(112,252 posts)
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 08:03 PM Feb 2017

Mom of dismembered teen charged with government theft

DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania woman charged along with her boyfriend in the rape, murder and dismemberment of her adopted 14-year-old daughter now faces theft charges.

Online court documents show a charge of misapplication of entrusted property of a government institution was added Thursday to Sara Packer's case.

The charge is normally associated with misuse of government benefits.

Packer and her boyfriend were charged last month with killing Grace Packer and dumping her body in remote northeastern Pennsylvania as part of what authorities call a rape-murder fantasy.

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Mom of dismembered teen charged with government theft (Original Post) TexasTowelie Feb 2017 OP
That is a truly horrible case Freddie Feb 2017 #1

Freddie

(9,268 posts)
1. That is a truly horrible case
Thu Feb 2, 2017, 08:28 PM
Feb 2017

The adoptive mother was a child welfare caseworker (!!). The theft charges are because she continued getting the child's SSI payments for months after the murder. The actual murder took place only a few miles from here.
As a liberal I'm supposed to be against the death penalty but not in cases like this.

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