Two Women Arrested In Dead Baby Burial Scam: Ruse Allegedly Concocted For Quick Cash

A mother holding a sign displaying her child’s picture and asking for money to bury that dead baby is not an easy event to ignore on the street corner of any given city. The evidence of the generosity of people willing to help with a baby’s burial cost comes from the row of cash pictured below that two women working in tandem were able to collect using these type of signs. These same two women are now facing charges for an alleged dead baby ruse.

Ignoring a grieving mother who is looking for funds to bury her baby might even seem impossible for the average person to do, and apparently, that is what these two women were allegedly banking on in San Bernadino, California, recently.

People panhandle for a variety of reasons on the street corners of big cities. Some are legitimately in dire straits, and then there are others who beg for money for their own personal greed. Because panhandling has become so commonplace, it is often hard to differentiate between people who just want something and people who are in actual need of something with the money they collect.

Police officers were able to determine that a woman carrying a sign with a picture of a baby that read “RIP,” along with asking for “Burial Donations” was embarking on a ploy. When a second woman showed up at the same location with the same type of sign, the cops realized they were in this together. Chastity Doll, 26, and Michele Love, 41, were placed under arrest over the weekend for panhandling with their signs that had a picture of a baby girl who is 5-months-old.

Police learned that neither of the women was the mother of the baby in the picture that they were supposedly attempting to bury, according to the San Bernardino Sun.

2 women arrested in dead baby scam: https://t.co/VSx5fADXRT pic.twitter.com/GZKuJ8znLX

— WSB-TV (@wsbtv) October 23, 2017

It was Doll who was arrested first while she was panhandling. Doll, who is listed by police as a “Loma Linda transient,” was arrested at the same location where Love showed up an hour later with a similar sign and ready to go to work.

Both women were allegedly working under the ruse that they were begging for help to bury their dead baby. Love, who police list as living in Yucca Valley, was taken into custody after police linked the two together.

The deputies conveyed that this panhandling under the ploy of burying a dead baby was a scam for these two women to make some quick cash. In a press release the deputies from the San Bernadino Sheriff’s Office said the following.

“This was done under false pretense and there were no burial funds needed.”

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They were both charged with conspiracy to commit fraud, according to the New York Post. The San Bernardino deputies asked the public, via that press release, to contact them if they had been “a victim of this rouse or have any additional information regarding this case.” They ask if you do to please call the Central Station at (909)387-3545. Police did not release the amount of cash these women were able to collect under this alleged ploy.

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