{"id":63710,"date":"2022-01-07T04:11:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/colorado-mom-who-faked-daughters-terminal-illness-pleads-guilty\/"},"modified":"2022-01-07T04:11:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T22:41:11","slug":"colorado-mom-who-faked-daughters-terminal-illness-pleads-guilty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/colorado-mom-who-faked-daughters-terminal-illness-pleads-guilty\/","title":{"rendered":"Colorado Mom Who Faked Daughter’s Terminal Illness Pleads Guilty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Colorado woman has pleaded guilty in the death of her daughter after she pretended that the 7-year-old had terminal medical issues. Kelly Renee Turner pled guilty to felony child abuse negligently\u00a0causing death, and felony theft and felony charitable fraud.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Turner allegedly raised $22,270 from 161 donors through\u00a0a GoFundMe campaign<\/b><\/a>\u00a0she said was created to offset the cost of daughter Olivia Gant’s medical treatment, officials said.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Turner, who\u00a0shared her made-up story with Digital said she wanted to complete a special \u201cbucket list\u201d for Olivia\u00a0before she passed away from what Turner called a \u201crare disease\u201d that impacted her organ functions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s not a lot the doctors can do anymore, so we decided to let her come home and be comfortable, and hopefully be able to fulfill all of her wishes,\u201d Turner told\u00a0InsideEdition.com in April 2017<\/b>. \u201cIt\u2019s a feeling that you can\u2019t buy. We know that her time is limited and we don\u2019t know how much longer she has, but it\u2019s incredible when we are able to get out and fulfill her bucket list.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, in 2019, Tuner was charged with murder after authorities conducted a year-long investigation and authorities said the mom was treating Olivia for illnesses that the child did not have before withdrawing medical care while Olivia was in hospice.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Authorities said Turner had a history of lying to doctors about her daughter\u2019s diagnosis and soliciting donations.<\/p>\n

In 2018, the child\u2019s body was exhumed and there was no evidence that\u00a0she died from\u00a0\u201cintestinal failure,\u201d as her mother had claimed. Authorities did not disclose the child\u2019s cause of death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Olivia made headlines in 2017 after she got to be a firefighter for a day as part of her bucket list. According to the indictment, the Make-A-Wish Foundation also gave her $11,000 so she could have a \u201cbat princess\u201d costume party.<\/p>\n

Doctors became suspicious after Turner began to tell doctors that her older daughter had bone pain, NBC News reported.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The older daughter was separated from her mom as the investigation went underway, NBC News reported.<\/p>\n

Turner is set to be sentenced on Feb. 9, according to court records.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A Colorado woman has pleaded guilty in the death of her daughter after she pretended that the 7-year-old had terminal medical issues. Kelly Renee Turner pled guilty to felony child abuse negligently\u00a0causing death, and felony theft and felony charitable fraud.\u00a0 Turner allegedly raised $22,270 from 161 donors through\u00a0a GoFundMe campaign\u00a0she said was created to offset […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":52991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/California-Becomes-First-State-to-Create-Law-Against-Stealthing.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}