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Canadian Cancer Faker Obtains Bail

by Gopalan T on August 24, 2010 at 7:54 AM Medico Legal News

A 23-year-old Canadian girl, charged with faking terminal cancer in order to coax money out of others, has been released on bail. She had said she was raising the funds for cancer support groups, but never parted with the money. The case provoked quite a sensation in the country, to some extent outside too.

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Ashley Kirilow from Burlington, Ontario, is facing three counts of fraud under $5,000 and one count of fraud over $5,000.

Two previous bail hearings were scrapped because nobody showed up to be a surety for her. When she finally got bail Friday last, �two weeks after turning herself in to police, it was only after John Howard Society, a nonprofit dedicated to rehabilitating prisoners, came forward to��supervise her.

In late 2008, Ashley was treated in hospital for a benign lump in one of her breasts. After that procedure, she began telling people she had breast cancer.

She also said she had brain cancer, liver cancer, stomach cancer and ovarian cancer, at various stages and in various combinations. She claimed to have only a few months to live.

She shaved her head and eyebrows, plucked her eyelashes and starved herself to look like a chemotherapy patient. Other photos from her now-deleted MySpace page show a wrist tattoo with the words "love," "dream," and "cure" inked into small, colourful hearts.

She even feigned disgust when she was once offered a cigarette, recalled her friend Matt Vardy.

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