PHILADELPHIA — Bonnie Sweeten, the Pennsylvania mother who faked her kidnapping 13 years ago, is facing new charges.
In 2009, Sweeten called police claiming she and her 9-year-old daughter had been kidnapped.
She told police she was calling from the trunk of a car after two men abducted her following an accident.
Instead, the Bucks County mom was on a plane to Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida with her daughter.
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Authorities said Sweeten had lied to a former coworker to get her driver’s license and used it as an alias to buy airline tickets and to get through security.
The Feasterville woman was arrested at the theme park’s Grand Floridian Resort the next day.
FILE: Bonnie Sweeten, who claimed she and her daughter had been kidnapped but instead turned up at Walt Disney World, is escorted into a courthouse in Richboro, Pa., May 29, 2009.
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Authorities said Sweeten, the mother of three, was trying to escape charges for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from friends, relatives, clients and her boss.
The “Hoax mom” was sentenced to prison for both the fraud scheme and the kidnapping hoax.
“I ran away, knowing that I dug a hole for myself I couldn’t get out of,” Sweeten said in court in 2012. “My actions were cruel and sick…what I did was wrong to clients as well, but, then to do it to your family as well, I’m very ashamed of myself.”
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