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Bottled water hoax leads to jail time for woman
A woman has been sentenced to jail for carrying out a hoax in which she claimed her daughter was injured by a glass shard in a bottle of water.
The Associated Press
A woman has been sentenced to jail for carrying out a hoax in which she claimed her daughter was injured by a glass shard in a bottle of water.
Kelsey Macom claimed in April 2008 that her 7-year-old daughter was injured by a piece of glass in a bottle of Dasani water, a Coca-Cola product. She then demanded $3,000 from Coke to settle the dispute.
Macom said her daughter's throat had been cut so badly that she couldn't eat hard foods anymore, and was coughing up blood.
The former Better Business Bureau employee was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three months of home detention.
The federal judge in the case described the crime as "despicable," and prosecutors said the case was all the more troubling because she used her job at the Better Business Bureau as a way to help wring money out of Coke.
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