Woman Allegedly Stole $5,000 From a Friend's GoFundMe Funeral Fund
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The Nashua, New Hampshire, police department arrested Krystal Gentley, 26, on Friday for theft by deception, CBS Boston reports. She is believed to have stolen $5,000 from a GoFundMe account she set up for her friend Tabatha Fauteux, who died of unspecified causes last November.
Gentley allegedly contacted the Fauteux family a few months after Tabatha's death and offered to set up the GoFundMe. The family told CBS they reached out to the site about receiving the donations shortly after and were told the account had been shut down and the money had been withdrawn. "It just made it harder," Tabatha's mother Sheila said. Her father added: "I couldn't believe how pathetic she would be to do something like that."
Gentley is currently free on $5,000 bail pending her May 17 arraignment, according to NECN.The Daily Mail reports Gentley's mother has posted several times on Facebook that her daughter is innocent and that she witnessed Gentley dropping off the money she raised to the family.
