World’s Worst Parents Fake Kid’s Cancer Diagnosis To Hang With Syracuse Football Team

El Taco7 years ago

It’s tough to outleg LaVar Ball as the worst person to hover around a college campus this decade, but a couple in New York took the cake. They used a fake cancer diagnosis to scam their way to donations and all the way into a Syracuse football practice. Wait, what?

From Syracuse.com:

A Port Byron couple made up a story that their child had cancer in order to illegally solicit about $3,000 from sympathetic donors, according to the Cayuga County Sheriff’s Office.

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Deputies, acting on a tip, discovered that Martin and Jolene LaFrance solicited money under the guise that their son, CJ LaFrance, was battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma. After a four-month investigation, the sheriff’s office “conclusively” learned that CJ was never diagnosed with cancer or any other medical condition.

I’ve seen kids with cancer join their favorite sports teams after long stints in the hospital, and that kid right there doesn’t look like a sick kid whatsoever. You’d think they’d dress him up in bandages or something to try and sell it, but nope. These assholes barely put any effort into this whole charade, and you know what? They didn’t need to, because WHY WOULD YOU LIE ABOUT THIS?

The parents in this case are obviously turds who should have the whole bookshelf thrown at them, but the story is honestly sadder when you factor in the hell they’ve put their kid through. What’s double fucked up is that the parents supposedly weren’t the only ones involved in the practice trip, as CJ’s uncle was quoted heavily in a previous article.

From Syracuse.com:

“It was a 10-out-of-10 night,” CJ’s uncle, Justin Roe, said Tuesday morning. “The staff is just so amazing, especially with it being the second practice (of preseason camp). Just taking the time, every coach in the middle of doing drills, to come over and chat with him. It blew my expectations away.”

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A conversation with director of player development Roy Wittke, however, may stick with CJ most closely. The group’s host shared with CJ, his father, Marty LaFrance, and Roe that he’s a two-time cancer survivor.

“If he’s beaten it two times and is still around a football program, I can do it too,” Roe recalls CJ saying.

Scum. Bags..

[via Syracuse.com]

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