WHAT A HEEL: Foster Mother Felon
Former president of the Latino Foster Parents Association,Virginia Prieto Kelly, 75, was found guilty of grand theft for stockpiling more than 12,000 toys and personal items valued at more than $375K that had been donated to her organization, reports The San Diego Union-Tribune:
The items - given to Kelly by the Marine Corps’ Toys for Tots Program, the Child Abuse Prevention Foundation and the Polinsky Children’s Center - were supposed to be distributed to children in the same year they were donated. …
The District Attorney’s Office began investigating Kelly in December 2008 after hearing reports that she had toys locked in two upstairs bedrooms at her house, and that she had asked a woman to sell some of the items to neighbors. …
The defense attorney said he would argue for probation at Kelly’s sentencing hearing, noting that she isn’t a danger to the public and is caretaker to her 81-year-old husband.
Kelly can be sentenced to up to five years in prison.
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