PA - Woman jailed in Pa. has trail of fake pregnancies

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http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/woman-jailed-pa-trail-fake-pregnancies-15751903

Her charges now are not that serious but her real crime is conning couples who are desperate to adopt a child...

Barry and Rebecca Vest can't conceive children — or of why a woman pretended to be pregnant and persuaded them to travel from Idaho to Pennsylvania five days after Christmas to adopt a baby that didn't exist.

And what they really don't understand is why that isn't a crime.

The Vests claim to be the latest victims of a woman known to Pennsylvania authorities as 32-year-old Amy Slanina, who, according to court records and interviews, pretends to be pregnant so infertile couples or, in some cases, female friends or lovers will shower her with attention, affection and sometimes money, clothes, food and shelter.
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Slanina has been in jail in Kittanning, some 35 miles northeast of Pittsburgh, since she was arrested in December on theft of services charges for staying at a battered women's shelter after allegedly claiming to be the abused wife of a police officer, who authorities say doesn't exist. She used the shelter's computer and a cellphone to contact the Vests.


More at link....
 
I hope there is a special place in Hell for her.
 
Feb 2012:

Amy Slanina is sitting in a western Pennsylvania jail cell on charges that she stole the services of a women's shelter by claiming to be the battered wife of a cop who shelter officials eventually determined didn't exist....

Slanina, 32, has avoided prosecution for faking pregnancies. One reason, Kittanning police and other authorities say, is that most states, like Pennsylvania, don't have laws criminalizing false adoption offers.As a result, Slanina has left an angry trail of dupes in her wake and been arrested only when authorities suspected her of some other crime related to her fake pregnancies.

Much more here:
http://www.news-herald.com/general-news/20120221/womans-trail-of-lies-fake-pregnancies-ends-in-jail
 
December 2012:

A woman who has a history of scamming couples by pretending to be pregnant or in trouble is once again in police custody...

In January, victim Lisa Booth sent out a warning about Slanina, “She’ll never stop. As long as these folks keep letting her out of prison, she’ll never stop.”...

Slanina was supposed to stand trial in Pennsylvania in September but, again, she disappeared.

http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/12/05/columbus-woman-accused-scamming-people.html
 

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