Woman fraud in the acceptance again in prison, charged with violation of probation
It was a “thief of hearts” in the words of one prosecutor, falsification of the pregnancy to siphon thousands of dollars of couples desperate Bay Area, dreamed up by the adoption of her child.She sought the sympathy of spiders fantastic stories of their lives - children are in a palace of Saudi Arabia, marriage to a polygamist Utah and, finally, heroic and the early death of his father, babies Iraq.
If it is not genuine infancy 31 / 2 years, she received a whopper place: Knocked a seizure, she says, she woke up, I found a girl dead and had left outside of a hospital.
But Maya-Anne Mays was very difficult, never pregnant, Contra Costa County jury. He condemned the three counties of Grand Theft, one for each couple, she had cheated, and Mays has been to three years in prison.
Now she is outside. And, authorities say, she is back in the game of adoption.
Parole officers arrested Mays, 36, on Tuesday at his home and Richmond in Contra Costa Book prison suspicion of violating a condition of their probation, bars they made contact regarding adoption.
From people, facilitate adoptions for Los Angeles and North Carolina’s column says they have contacted Mays in recent weeks. You spoke Mays wanted to abandon a baby in need of children could, in return, pay their medical expenses, as allowed under the law.
A couple voted in North Carolina on “Cassandra Mays” $ 1050 sent to him, and a second cable $ 250 earlier this month, said Amy Miller, Director of Link adoption of Concord, NC
Miller, although, if it was not long before Mays’ requests for money, permanent calls at all hours, strange behaviour and amazing stories - including a fairy tale that the father of the baby, she had been raped before having arrested and deported to his hometown Yemen - collected red flags.
Miller did some research and discovered Mays’ name - “Cassandra” is his second name - and their belief, 2004. The two couples, then the records of the police reports on the weekend in North Carolina.
David Radis, a moderator and the adoption of the lawyer in Los Angeles, said Mays also had contact with him, but recently he had no correspondence with her and couples with one child.
Last week, Robert Miller called the Temple of Walnut Creek, with his wife belonged to Mays’ victims in the former Bay Area. The couple pays almost $ 12000, among others, the mobile service and a gym-membership.
Walnut Creek temple called the police, parole, designated representatives.
She said Tuesday the authorities do not know if Mays is, indeed, this time, pregnant. Radishes and Miller said it had reports of their legitimate faxed UCSF medical reports - including ultrasound images - verification of their pregnancy.
A spokesman said UCSF privacy laws prevented her comments Mays, if a patient.
Bill Sessa, a spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, said Mays’ possible pregnancy, “This is probably something that is confirmed, one or the other way now that she warned. ”
Mays could not be reached in prison comment Tuesday.
You must have a revocation of relief within the next 45-day consultation, “said Sessa, and face up to one year in prison when they found, against the conditions of their release. It is also the focus of separate police investigation if she tried to deceive the hope of couples to adopt.
Miller said the baby seeks couples are increasingly victims of fraud to facilitate the adoption in the past several years. The determination of fraudsters is difficult, she said, because couples are fragile and many pregnant women try the service are in the financial or emotional distress.
“It’s very bad things,” said Miller. “You are in fact violating these couples with emotion. It is a trauma, sometimes they have never gone, even if later the adoption of a perfect “.
Mays has a difficult life, Court of discs. A Contra Costa probation concludes that seems to be a pathological liar. Some children she has in the past have been taken away from him because of alleged abuses discs.
She lived in Oregon during their first foray into the world of adoption, if false pregnancy for two months in 2004 for stealing more than $ 13000 over expenditure of three couples, she met with a intermediate, Walnut Creek.
Testimony showed that Mays had refused an investigation by ultrasound, they say that the implantation of a device, it had to control seizures. Mays a pregnancy test positive results, but the test itself was managed, and a police detective testified that Mays admitted draw a positive outcome of a clinical trial of waste.
Mays said the father of birth was Erik Kesterson, 29, an army of Independence Warrant Officer, Ore. HAS been killed in Iraq, November 2003. His father said he believes Mays simply withdrew the name of his son news articles.
A jury needed less than an hour to convict. He was imprisoned until November 2005, when he was paroled.
Miller said she contacted Mays on October 4 and was almost immediately vote on Starla and Eddie Williams of Union County, NC Starla Williams, said in an interview that her tubes tied on the operating table 10 years due complications of the birth of his second son.
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