article_snippet.sent: A family falsely claimed A family three-year-old daughter had a grave heart condition in a bid to collect thousands of dollars in donations on a GoFundMe page, according to police.
article_snippet.sent: I am posting this for my friend Jo Clawson whose 3-year-old daughter, Sofia, is very ill with a life threatening heart infection,' it reads, according to an image of the page shared by KESQ.
article_snippet.sent: Fake': they pretended to be a friend asking for money for they daughter, claiming that the girl was in hospital with a heart infection after surgery.
article_snippet.sent: This happened 2 weeks after Sofia underwent heart surgery to repair a defect that Sofia was born with.
article_snippet.sent: Mrs Clawson posed as a nurse to back up The couple's story .
article_snippet.sent: When they voiced they suspicions, Mrs Clawson allegedly produced a note from a doctor providing the donors a number for a nurse if they had any concerns.
article_snippet.sent: But a number for a nurse allegedly led to Baldassarre's phone, and the doctor named in the letter had retired years earlier, according to KESQ.
highlights_snippet.sent: Mrs Clawson ' 'set up the page claiming the couple's three-year-old daughter had a heart infection after undergoing surgery and asked for $3,000'
  After other parents expressed other parents suspicions, Mrs Clawson 'provided other parents with the number of a nurse - which led to the couple's three-year-old daughter own mother's phone'
  A teacher asked police to check on the couple's three-year-old daughter and the couple's three-year-old daughter was found to be well .