"We did whatever we had to do to win." Nice.
Besides revamping her ethics and trying to set a proper example of behavior for her daughter, mama might want to also heed the following:
Posted on 12/30/2007 3:08:02 PM PST by FoxInSocks
GARLAND, Texas (Dec. 29) - A 6-year-old girl who won four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay falsely claiming her father died in Iraq isn't going to the show after all.
The contest's sponsor, a store chain named Club Libby Lu, withdrew the prize Saturday and awarded it to another contestant. It didn't identify the new winner.
"With this decision, we hope to revive the intended spirit of the contest, which was designed to make a little girl's holidays extra special," Club Libby Lu chief executive Mary Drolet said in a statement Saturday.
Officials of the Chicago-based chain surprised the girl on Friday at a Club Libby Lu store in mall in this Dallas suburb. Club Libby Lu sells clothes, accessories and games for young girls.
The girl won a makeover that included a blonde Hannah Montana wig, as well as the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert on Jan. 9.
The opening line in the essay was: "My daddy died this year in Iraq."
The girl's mother had told Club Libby Lu officials that the girl's father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq, company spokeswoman Robyn Caulfield said. But the mother, Priscilla Ceballos, admitted later Friday that the essay and the military information she provided about her daughter's father were untrue.
I would hope the local prosecutor would have enough sense to initiate fraud charges.
The value of those tickets would make her fraud at the felony level in most jurisdictions.
Those tickets were as high as 15,000 in Nashville. Quite the airwave buzz.
I just want ICE to make the little bitch prove she has legal papers and get her ass off of welfare. How many accounts has she made up to get money. Her web site lists her husband but her mother, what about her papers, says he lives in another state. I would bet money he is an illegal.
poor kid.
take a deep breath, take you meds.
You KNOW the drive-by’s would have LOVED for this to be true.
Betcha the mother is a regular Today Show viewer
Right because everyone knows, only 'illegals' do bad things.
I'd like to make you eat the words, "little bitch."
You would be welcome to try!
I don’t take meds thank you very much. There is something very wrong with people that will lie for tickets to a stupid concert. The fact that she said that her father died in Iraq is what really really really pisses me off.
This totally disgusts me. I saw way too many flag covered coffins while I was in Afghanistan and for someone to gain from the deaths of those who died while serving is reprehensible.
Has anyone posted the contest rules?
There may be nothing in the rules about the essay having to be honest and truthful.
This whole incident is dispicable, no doubt, but seesh, I thought I clicked on DU by mistake.
I don’t like it either but she is six and didn’t come up with it on her own.
She obviously wrote the letter and I’m sure she understood what she was writing! Her mother is raising a future felon.
Is that what Mexican chicks do? Shave off their eyebrows and draw in new ones (that look really stupid)?
There is probably a loop hole or that wouldn’t have pulled it.
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