Posted on 10/13/2014 3:22:13 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
Sarah Cheiker disappeared in 2008 at the age of 89 and was found in 2012, taken away by a family after they sold her house and spent the money, say authorities. Three people have since been arrested on felony charges of endangering the welfare of a dependent person.
An elderly Los Angeles woman reported missing four years ago was found in a desolate shack in Maine after she was allegedly swindled out of her home and dumped there by a trio of thieves, it was reported this week.
Sarah Cheiker, who disappeared in 2008 at the age of 89, was found living in squalor in a small cabin in 2012 while she was suspected of being left for dead by the very people who brought her there, authorities told the Los Angeles Times.
"It was a place I wouldn't have let my dog live in," Lincoln County Sheriff's Det. Robert McFetridge told the paper of the elderly woman’s conditions.
The bizarre and seemingly tragic end to Cheiker's mysterious disappearance comes after a concerned neighbor went to police after seeing her house in the Fairfax district being suddenly torn down.
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That is truly awful. There is no justice, apparently, for Sarah!
Similar stunt was pulled on my mother over a decade ago; came by to offer work on the house, loaded her into a car and tried to draw her savings from the bank, failed, then tried to buy a new truck on her signature for loan. We found her wandering around the car lot & ended her 'independent living'.
Cops wouldn't go past minimal investigation because gypsies have far too many escape routes and legal games.
I was once volunteering for an elderly man whose wife had just died. I was working with a group of Catholics to care for people like him...to get him on his feet and get the service s he needed to him.
I walked his dog every day for him and in the course of being there, I realized he was getting a lot of packages full of worthless stuff constantly in the mail. For example, he got one thousand pen marked “Say No to Drugs!”
Upon questioning, I came to understand that every evening he got multiple calls offering him free stuff. But every time they took his credit card number and large charges showed up on his card. He was being scammed and by the time I figured it out, his savings account was nearly drained!
He would not cooperate in stopping it. I had no power to make him. He went totally broke with me watching. He then moved into ghetto housing and had to put his dog down.
So sad. He probably enjoyed talking to the scammers at first. When he figured it out, he was probably too polite to tell them to take a hike.
Gypsies?
In SoCal. More likely realtors
A broker
These jerks will need to answer some day for their evil deeds.
Such a sad story. My late FIL was scammed a few times while he was in his 80s.
Prosecutorial discretion.
There are times when I would really like to interrogate the person or persons making the decisions not to pursue these cases just to understand the logic (if there is any) behind the decision.
Was there a civil remedy that could be pursued in your case?
After 3 years in probate court there was a settlement. Still doesn’t negate what she did.....and we had absolute proof.
According to California law she could have been charged with quite a few felonies. They just didn’t care. Our attorney was even flabbergasted.
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