Charity Helping Kids With Cancer Goes Broke

[OhioChick]

10:48 pm EST February 11, 2010

CLEVELAND -- It's a charity for children with cancer. The "Way With Words Foundation" is based in Austintown, Ohio and was founded to raise money for children and their families who are fighting cancer.

Children formed the ROCCK, Raising Our Commitment to Cancer Kids, choir to raise funds by singing in nursing homes, hospitals and local communities.

The foundation uses the money it raises to buy clothing and gas cards for families.

"Whether it's softer clothing, bigger clothes because they're going through chemotherapy and they've ballooned up from the steroids or they need gas cards to get back and forth for treatment. That sort of thing," the charity's founder Brenda Rider said.

But a Five On Your Side investigation found more than $3,000 disappeared from the charity's bank account, leaving the struggling charity broke.

Investigator Ron Regan found the charity was billed for a credit card processing machine that the foundation said never worked, but despite repeated complaints, the company leasing the device continued to collect monthly payments from the charity's bank account.

Finally, the credit card leasing company demanded another $1,500 in payments from the charity that was now broke.

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