ALBANY, Ga. (AP) - Police say a Georgia woman used a friend's
baby to collect more than $1,600 in child support from an
ex-boyfriend after she convinced him the child was his.
Dougherty County Sheriff's Capt. Craig Dodd says Regina
Thompson's ex-boyfriend paid the money over two years. Dodd says
the ex-boyfriend even had pictures made at the girl's birthday
party.
The 38-year-old Thompson has been charged with five counts of
theft. Police say she was keeping her friend's child when she
concocted the scheme.
The girl's mother, Lastraga McCloud, didn't know anything about
the plot. Police say it began to unravel when the girl, now five,
began to talk more and told Thompson's ex-boyfriend, Joseph Golden,
that he wasn't her father.
Thompson did not immediately return a phone call seeking
comment.