A merciless Queens mother who stole her crippled little girl's misbehavior suit cash and utilized it for a Disney trip and a tummy tuck was sentenced Thursday to six months in prison and probation.
Prosecutors said Megan Mele, 31, grabbed $66,000 from her 11-year-old little girl's restorative negligence settlement, and utilized the cash to support a California trek to Disneyland a year ago. Authorities said the young lady ran with her on the excursion.
The Woodhaven mother likewise utilized the cash for liposuction, a tummy tuck, aircraft tickets, Amazon.com buys and spending sprees at nearby retail locations, court papers said.
"Rather than shielding her little girl's negligence grant — cash put aside for the impaired adolescent's future — the respondent as a matter of fact plunged into the record to back a Disneyland trip, corrective surgery, internet shopping and different binge spends," said Queens DA Richard Brown.
Mele's little girl was conceived with nerve harm that brought about her having no capacity to move her correct arm.
The mother sued St. John's Episcopal Hospital over the harm, and the case was settled in 2007, records appear.
Mele confessed to a stupendous robbery accusation.
The negligence settlement was organized for the young lady to get installments beginning after her eighteenth birthday in 2022.
As a major aspect of the settlement, a record to profit the young lady containing more than $50,000 was set up at Cross County Federal Savings Bank in March 2007.
As per the criminal accusations, Mele was required to submit solicitations to the court before making any withdrawals from the record.
Be that as it may, after the judge responsible for the case precluded her demand from securing $47,000 from the record, she presented a fashioned court request to pull back the assets, purportedly for the young lady to experience surgery at a San Diego kids' doctor's facility, Brown said.
A bank check was issued in Mele's name for $47,000, yet an examination uncovered that there was no record of the young lady being a patient at the healing facility. Rather, she went through a day with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
Cocoa said Mele submitted fashioned court arranges on three different events.
She was additionally sentenced to five years' probation.
Prosecutors said Megan Mele, 31, grabbed $66,000 from her 11-year-old little girl's restorative negligence settlement, and utilized the cash to support a California trek to Disneyland a year ago. Authorities said the young lady ran with her on the excursion.
The Woodhaven mother likewise utilized the cash for liposuction, a tummy tuck, aircraft tickets, Amazon.com buys and spending sprees at nearby retail locations, court papers said.
"Rather than shielding her little girl's negligence grant — cash put aside for the impaired adolescent's future — the respondent as a matter of fact plunged into the record to back a Disneyland trip, corrective surgery, internet shopping and different binge spends," said Queens DA Richard Brown.
Mele's little girl was conceived with nerve harm that brought about her having no capacity to move her correct arm.
The mother sued St. John's Episcopal Hospital over the harm, and the case was settled in 2007, records appear.
Mele confessed to a stupendous robbery accusation.
The negligence settlement was organized for the young lady to get installments beginning after her eighteenth birthday in 2022.
As a major aspect of the settlement, a record to profit the young lady containing more than $50,000 was set up at Cross County Federal Savings Bank in March 2007.
As per the criminal accusations, Mele was required to submit solicitations to the court before making any withdrawals from the record.
Be that as it may, after the judge responsible for the case precluded her demand from securing $47,000 from the record, she presented a fashioned court request to pull back the assets, purportedly for the young lady to experience surgery at a San Diego kids' doctor's facility, Brown said.
A bank check was issued in Mele's name for $47,000, yet an examination uncovered that there was no record of the young lady being a patient at the healing facility. Rather, she went through a day with Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.
Cocoa said Mele submitted fashioned court arranges on three different events.
She was additionally sentenced to five years' probation.
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