HOW IS THIS A PUNISHMENT? Woman who faked leukemia gets 5 years in prison. “A woman who conned people into believing she had leukemia, defrauded the state government out of thousands of dollars in medical benefits and falsely claimed that she had been sexually assaulted, took a plea deal last week in Superior Court and was sentenced to five years in prison.”

In an article from last year, she is referred to as “an 18-month resident of the Prescott Women’s Shelter” who “has been there for a longer than normal time while she gets treatment for acute lymphoblastic leukemia.”

Alternative headline: Woman who received government housing and care for two years on false pretenses now guaranteed five years more.