PHILADELPHIA—Bonnie Sweeten, 40, of Pennsylvania, was sentenced today to 100 months in prison for fraud schemes in which she stole in excess of $600,000 from her employer and family members. Sweeten pleaded guilty June 21, 2011 to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. In addition to the prison term, U.S. District Court Judge William H. Yohn, Jr., ordered Sweeten to pay restitution in the amount of $1,091,831 and a special assessment of...
(CBS/Reuters) PHILADELPHIA - A Pennsylvania woman who faked her own kidnapping while actually going to Disney World was sentenced Thursday to more than eight years in prison. 40-year-old Bonnie Sweeten is charged with swindling her employer and ...
That was how the Bonnie Sweeten saga ended in U.S. District Court this morning, as the Bucks County mother and fake kidnap victim was finally sentenced by U.S. District Judge William H. Yohn Jr. "You've done great wrong and you have to pay the ...
PHILADELPHIA — The in-vitro treatments. The suburban house. The lavish trips and dinners out. None of it was worth it, a soccer mom-turned-”abduction hoax” mom told a federal judge Thursday before she was sentenced to more than eight years ...
"So why didn't I go to them in the beginning and tell them I needed ... help?" she wondered. Public defender James McHugh argued that a painkiller addiction tripped up the once law-abiding mother and school volunteer. He said she has suffered ...
PHILADELPHIA — A Philadelphia-area woman has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for stealing more than $1 million from her employer, calling in a hoax carjacking and fleeing to Disney World with her young daughter. Forty-year ...
Daily MailBonnie Sweeten: Disney World hoax kidnapping mom get eight years in jailDaily MailBonnie Sweeten triggered a nationwide search in 2009 after calling 911 to say she and her nine-year-old daughter had been carjacked and abducted near Philadelphia by two black men. But it wasn't long before she was found and arrested at the Florida ...'Kidnapped' woman jailed for Disney World tripStuff.co.nzPrison for US woman who faked kidnapping, went...
Bonnie "Blame the Brothas" Sweeten
If you know the words to this story…feel free to sing along. Just because we have a “Black” president…doesn’t mean that the majority of Black men are “accepted” on any measurable level. You would think the tired…”The Black guy did it” would have played itself out by now. Bonnie Sweeten, Susan Smith…whatever.
Guess not…
From USAToday …story HERE
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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman said Thursday she gave her driver’s license to a former co...Read Full Story
Bonnie Sweeten told a bold faced lie and made up a story when she falsely reported that she and her daughter were abducted by Black men . This is awful and so wrong.
The alleged kidnapping of Bonnie Sweeten and her 9-year-old daughter
smelled foul from the start, said Shaun Mullen in The Moderate Voice.
The media treated the carjacking tale “as if it were Armageddon on
wheels”—a blonde, blue-eyed suburban Pennsylvania mom and her girl were
reportedly snatched by two black men in a Cadillac...Read Full Story
SOUTHAMPTON, PA - On Tuesday, Pennsylvania mom Bonnie Sweeten, 38, called Philadelphia's 911 dispatch center alleging that she and her daughter Julia Rakoczy, 9, had been kidnapped and locked in the trunk of a car. Ms. Sweeten told 911 that she and her daughter were beaten by two black men prior to being placed in the trunk of their car after the men rear-ended them in Southampton, PA. When police arrived to the scene, they found no evidence of an accident having taken place there or any...Read Full Story
Bonnie Sweeten pulled a John Stuart (Murdered his pregnant wife in Boston and blamed it on a black man he made up) and blamed a black man for abducting her and putting her and her child in the trunk of his car. The only problem was that she in fact went to Disney World in Florida and there was no abduction while she and her daughter vacationed! Luxury accommodations to boot! She was just released on one million bail. I’m pissed and I’m not even an African American! This crime by Bonnie...Read Full Story
Daughter Julia Rakoczy and mother Bonnie Sweeten, who were allegedly abducted in broad daylight in the Philadelphia area.
DEVELOPING: Police say they've found the silver SUV of a Pennsylvania woman and her young daughter who were allegedly kidnapped in broad daylight and called 911 from the trunk of a car.
There was still no sign of Bonnie Sweeten, 38, of Feasterville, Pa., or 9-year-old Julia Rakoczy Wednesday morning after the discovery of their vehicle in the Center City section of...Read Full Story
Bonnie Sweeten was arrested May 27, 2009, after falsely claiming to police that she and her daughter had been kidnapped. She was arrested in Florida while visiting Disney Land.