Mom 'lied' about daughter having terminal illness for free 'Make-A-Wish' trip to Disney World

An Indiana ma whose sick girl caught the attraction of the Make-A-Wish Foundation lied astir the 'terminal illness' and failed to renew the child's aesculapian prescription, according to tribunal documents. 

Katherine Jackson, 41, is accused of lying astir the severity of her daughter's chronic unwellness aft she solicited donations connected GoFundMe and received an connection for a escaped Make-A-Wish travel to Disney World. 

When the travel was cancelled owed to Covid-19, the young miss received a parade and day enactment for 200 radical astatine her location from the foundation Give Kids the World Village, which besides fulfilled her imagination transforming into Elsa from Frozen successful a nonrecreational photograph shoot.

Ms Jackson, who is facing felony neglect and fraud charges, archetypal launched the GoFundMe successful 2021, writing that her then-five-year aged girl suffered '80 to 90 seizures a day'. 

Jackson said her girl was dying from Pilarowski-Bjornsson Syndrome (PBS) and Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome (LGS). According to the National Institutes of Health, PBS is simply a upset which impedes neurological improvement and impairs intelligence development.

Jackson managed to rise implicit $1,600 connected GoFundMe, which prompted the Make-A-Wish instauration to scope retired and connection the travel to Disney World. 

Local quality broadcaster WANE reported connected the young girl's unwellness successful 2022 aft learning of the Make-A-Wish travel to Disney World.

'Ultimately she has months near with us. That’s what doctors say. However, she writes her ain story,' she told WANE successful 2022.

'You tin springiness maine arsenic galore months oregon weeks arsenic you think, but you’re not God. You’re not her. She’s sassy and she’s got a batch of fight.'

Jackson added: 'She’s dying successful beforehand of us. But, it doesn’t some her. She conscionable wants to color.' 

When Jackson took her girl to the infirmary 3 weeks aft the story, unit astatine the infirmary raised concerns astir imaginable aesculapian kid maltreatment owed to the young girl's seizures and her irregular bosom rate. 

According to tribunal documents, she was transported to different infirmary wherever doctors reviewed her records and allegedly recovered Jackson was not decently filling retired her daughter's prescriptions. 

Investigators besides spoke with a doc who confirmed the kid did endure from PBS but told them that portion it has nary cure the unwellness is chronic, not terminal.

After 2 infirmary visits, the miss and her sibling were taken into the foster attraction system. 

In a speech with constabulary past year, their foster parents told officers that the 2 weren't toilet trained oregon successful schoolhouse erstwhile they took them in. 

Their foster parents besides noted that the miss suffered with delayed development, including to her speech, according to the tribunal files. 

A psychologist, meanwhile, reportedly told officers that Jackson said her daughter's information was terminal and that she wouldn't unrecorded for different year.

Jackson faces 1 number of fraud, and 2 counts of neglect, a tribunal day has not been scheduled. 

Attorney details for Jackson were not available. Make-A-Wish person been approached for comment.