Parents Accused Of Drugging Child For Money Prosecutor Says They Made Up Girl’s Symptoms To Get Government Benefits
BROCKTON, Mass. – Parents accused of killing their 4-year-old daughter with an overdose of prescription drugs had concocted symptoms of mental illnesses to qualify the girl for government benefits, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Michael and Carolyn Riley pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder charges Tuesday and were ordered to remain in custody without bail.
The Rileys’ applications for Supplemental Security Income for their daughter, Rebecca, were twice rejected after government doctors examined her and found no evidence to back the parents’ claims of bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, Assistant District Attorney Frank Middleton said.
Go to the link to read the rest if you want to, I need to know if anyone else believes that this is the only way you can get this check.
I hope someone will read this and that maybe this can make a difference too, but probably not who cares? I do.
I have personally been told that a person “has” to take this medication to prove that they had any problems that they needed any help for or this check and how else was one going to prove that they needed this check if they did not take this medication or give this medication to their kids in order to show that they had this disability.
If this is what the prosecutors are saying the parents might be partially responsible for this, I am not sure, but I believe that this is what they thought. They needed this money and this was the only way that they could get it.
Does that make them the monsters or does the system that we have allows this? This has to stop!
Please you guys I am asking you to help me stop this so that there is not even one more death from this stuff. I know that this is not likely, but don’t you guys care? I do! I do! This breaks my heart.