Popular Blog About Dying Baby A Hoax

Blogger Admits She Made Up Story Of Woman Who Chose To Carry Terminally Ill Child To Term

(AP)  A blog that told the tale of a woman who chose to carry a terminally ill child to term drew a following online, prompting supporters to promise prayers and send gifts.

But the story that drew nearly a million hits to her Web site was a lie.

The blogger who identified herself online as "April's Mom" is actually Beccah Beushausen, a 26-year-old social worker from the Chicago suburb of Mokena.

Beushausen says she knows what she did was wrong and she's sorry because readers became so emotionally involved.

Some of the people who read her story sent gifts to the post office box she listed online, and already established parenting Web sites that oppose abortion promoted her site.

There's no evidence that Beushausen profited financially from the hoax.

[kansas1946]

What a surprise. All the pro-lifers hanging on her every word. These folks are gullible to the extreme.

[caligula1--2008]

< "Why? It was a work of fiction." It was not presented as fiction but as truth. This is called "lying". >

Or, if CBS, MSNBC, or CNN does it, Journalism.

[Elvanion2]

"Why? It was a work of fiction." It was not presented as fiction but as truth. This is called "lying". Your parents may have touched on it if they gave you moral guidance.

The fact that she got a P.O. Box and published it meant she jolly well knew she would get some gifts or donations and indeed was probably hoping she would.

This is called "fraud", your parents may also have mentioned this at some point. Whatever was sent to her was something not being sent to the genuinely needy..some of us would call that a form of theft.

Knowing she is slippery with the truth if there's gain in it for her, do you really want her as a social worker where she has to report on other people and their welfare? What if she decides she doesn't like you? What stories will she fabricate then?

A liar is like someone bearing a plague, you are best served if you stay well away from them.

[dartplayer501]

What's the old saying "The foolish are easily led?"

[mswolfestock]

This woman needs to get a life - if she's bored or wants attention she should have been honest.

So she's committed "blog fraud," and a whole bunch of people are left feeling like they've been had. And I absolutely HATE the way she's manipulated the anti-abortion idiots. Hey Becca - you are pathetic.

[cs4466]

The author of this blog is simple scum, pandering to simple scum.