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Mom guilty of defrauding welfare gets probation

A Sudbury single mother of three will serve two years of probation after being found guilty of welfare fraud last week.
A Sudbury single mother of three will serve two years of probation after being found guilty of welfare fraud last week.

The mother, who defrauded the system of $44,000 over a five-year period from 1989 to 1994, will not go to jail or be put under house arrest.

She is no longer on welfare and is working. The judge ordered her to pay restitution.


She is the first person to be found guilty of welfare fraud in Sudbury since Kimberly Rogers, the pregnant woman who died while under house arrest in August 2001.

Rogers had received $13,327 in welfare she was not entitled to while she attended college.