A judge told a woman on Thursday that she would spend 30 days in jail and pay $9,000 after being arrested for stealing from a cancer patient.
According to investigators, Kimberly Richeson stole nearly $7,000 from her friend, Maria Herren, who has terminal Stage 4 breast cancer.
Investigators said that Richeson held a fundraiser last February for Herren at the Griswold Center in Worthington and raised nearly $18,000.
Richeson told the Herren family that $11,000 was raised and kept the rest, 10TV's Jason Frazer reported.
Philip Herren, Maria Herren's husband, said that Richeson apologized to his family in court.
"This event that was so wonderful that had all of this outpouring of support and love for Maria was tarnished by simple greed," Herren said.
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According to Herren, Richeson tipped the family off about the money.
"Maria needed a bill paid and was asking her, 'Please can you get this bill paid,'" Herren said. "And Kim was like, 'Yea, there's not enough money in the account because I took this $1,000 out to get my duct work cleaned."
Herren said he looked at the bank account and found that $5,000 was paid towards Maria Herren's medical bills and the rest of the money was used at businesses like T.J. Maxx, Wendy's, Dairy Queen and Kroger.
Herren said that he and his wife confronted Richeson.? When she did not pay, they went to the police.
"I'm sorry that everyone has had to go through this, because this really is a kind of an affront to the community," Herren said.
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