01-10-2012, 05:37 PM
Elkins , West Virginia
A woman whose 3-year-old daughter has been missing for more than three months has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of welfare fraud.
Lena Lunsford, 29, appeared before federal Magistrate John Kaull in Elkins on Tuesday.
She pleaded guilty to selling $114 worth of credit on her food stamp card for $50 cash.
Lunsford will be sentenced at a later date. She could get as much as five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Lunsford's 3-year-old daughter Aliayah vanished from the family's Lewis County home on Sept 24. Investigators are treating her disappearance as a crime but have made no arrests and named no suspects.
Weeks after her daughter's disappearance, Lunsford was indicted. She was accused of selling her benefits five times in two months.
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I would like to stone this women!!
A woman whose 3-year-old daughter has been missing for more than three months has pleaded guilty to a federal charge of welfare fraud.
Lena Lunsford, 29, appeared before federal Magistrate John Kaull in Elkins on Tuesday.
She pleaded guilty to selling $114 worth of credit on her food stamp card for $50 cash.
Lunsford will be sentenced at a later date. She could get as much as five years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Lunsford's 3-year-old daughter Aliayah vanished from the family's Lewis County home on Sept 24. Investigators are treating her disappearance as a crime but have made no arrests and named no suspects.
Weeks after her daughter's disappearance, Lunsford was indicted. She was accused of selling her benefits five times in two months.
I would like to stone this women!!
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