article_snippet.sent: Police have charged a woman with fraud after a woman allegedly faked a terminal illness to raise thousands of dollars from sympathetic strangers.
article_snippet.sent: Police alleged the 31-year-old mother from Belmont, near Newcastle in NSW, used a falsified doctor's certificate stating a woman had terminal cancer to raise about $2500 from a woman page.
article_snippet.sent: she told the court. '
article_snippet.sent: the court’s alleged the 31-year-old Belmont mother falsified a certificate from a Sydney doctor that stated the 31-year-old Belmont mother had the disease, and allegedly raised about $2500 from the page .
article_snippet.sent: The mother from Lake Macquarie, NSW, went to great lengths to convince friends, family, and strangers that the 31-year-old Belmont mother had cancer, shaving the 31-year-old Belmont mother head and faking hospital visits for chemotherapy treatments .
highlights_snippet.sent: The 31-year-old mother will appear at Belmont Local Court in June .
  