Student fakes terminal illness to con her lecturer

Melisandre121 · 22-12-2015 12:38AM #1

This is absolutely insane.

http://m.independent.ie/life/teacher-loses-marriage-home-and-job-after-student-fakes-terminal-cancer-to-get-her-to-look-after-her-34304556.html

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Adding in some details of the article.
Headline:

Teacher loses marriage, home and job after student fakes terminal cancer to get her to look after her

Opening Para:

A “heartless” student who ruined her female lecturer’s life by faking terminal cancer before conning her until she lost her marriage, home and job has been jailed for two years.

MaryAntoinette · 22-12-2015 12:40AM

Terrible altogether, shocking.

Q_Ball · 22-12-2015 12:43AM

I bet she'll come dead last in her class

DopeTech · 22-12-2015 12:44AM

That is seriously f**ked up. Who the hell does things like that.

Gaygooner · 22-12-2015 12:44AM

If it was in a soap you wouldn't believe it

Dirty Dingus McGee · 22-12-2015 12:45AM

This sounds very harsh but was your one not a bit of a sap to fall for all this.

I feel sorry for her but she seems ridiculously naive.To take anyone into your home unless you know them extremely well and no their family in my opinion is just insanity.

Stheno · 22-12-2015 12:45AM

I was gobsmacked at the victims naivety tbh

Melisandre121 · 22-12-2015 12:45AM

"Pretending she was in constant pain, Bianco started sleeping in Mrs Retallack’s bed so Sally could care for her 24 hours a day."

I mean, wow.

bobbysands81 · 22-12-2015 12:48AM

Mental illness is a terrible for anyone to battle through.

Faking serious illness is something that happens to a minority of people who have mental illness as part of their make up. Unfortunately it being sensationalised by parts of the media makes it even harder for the general public to understand and for those suffering it to get help.

Melisandre121 · 22-12-2015 12:53AM

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Mental illness is a terrible for anyone to battle through.

Faking serious illness is something that happens to a minority of people who have mental illness as part of their make up. Unfortunately it being sensationalised by parts of the media makes it even harder for the general public to understand and for those suffering it to get help.

I would view her behaviour as psychopathic, not mentally ill.

Hammer89 · 22-12-2015 12:55AM

bobbysands81 wrote: »

Mental illness is a terrible for anyone to battle through.

Faking serious illness is something that happens to a minority of people who have mental illness as part of their make up. Unfortunately it being sensationalised by parts of the media makes it even harder for the general public to understand and for those suffering it to get help.

I like this empathetic approach. This story is so f*cked up that the student clearly isn't playing with a full deck. She can't be. It's easy to have a shoot-on-sight policy and crucify her, but as himself says, she's got mental issues.

Hammer89 · 22-12-2015 12:55AM

Melisandre121 wrote: »

I would view her behaviour as psychopathic, not mentally ill.

Are psychopaths not mentally ill?

The Backwards Man · 22-12-2015 12:57AM

I think this proves how cynicism is a default trait for us here, but it also shows you how it isn't a universal attitude worldwide.

Long live cynicism.

Melisandre121 · 22-12-2015 12:59AM

Hammer89 wrote: »

Are psychopaths not mentally ill?

No, Psycopathy isn't a mental illness. Psychopaths are well aware of everything they're doing and are extremely manipulative.

Stheno · 22-12-2015 01:01AM

Hammer89 wrote: »

Are psychopaths not mentally ill?

No it's estimated that something like 90% of world/work leaders are psychopaths

There's a kink that makes the truly evil ones go nuts.

The_Valeyard · 22-12-2015 01:01AM

Read like Steven Kings 'Misery' freaky stuff.

Melisandre121 · 22-12-2015 01:03AM

Stheno wrote: »

No it's estimated that something like 90% of world/work leaders are psychopaths

There's a kink that makes the truly evil ones go nuts.

They become dangerous if they have the Psychopath gene and also suffer a serious trauma in early childhood. Don't ask me how I know so much about Psychopaths!

Hammer89 · 22-12-2015 01:07AM

Stheno wrote: »

No it's estimated that something like 90% of world/work leaders are psychopaths

There's a kink that makes the truly evil ones go nuts.

Not everybody on the planet is a world leader though. So in the scheme of things, what percentage of people are psychopaths? If it's bizarrely low, it's hard to argue that they're normal and not afflicted with a mental illness.

Theboybang · 22-12-2015 01:10AM

I saw this earlier today. What a horrible horrible person and she didn't get nearly enough time in the slammer. Karma is a b*tch though!

Insect Overlord · 22-12-2015 01:11AM

Hammer89 wrote: »

Not everybody on the planet is a world leader though. So in the scheme of things, what percentage of people are psychopaths? If it's bizarrely low, it's hard to argue that they're normal and not afflicted with a mental illness.

Approximately 1% of the population, I believe.

MilesMorales1 · 22-12-2015 01:15AM

Is this girl not absolutely off her head though? Or she's cold as ice, I couldn't do that, my conscience would wreck me it would, not her apparently.

Hammer89 · 22-12-2015 01:19AM

An File wrote: »

Approximately 1% of the population, I believe.

If that's accurate then it's far too low to consider it normal. And if it's not normal then we're probably talking disorders.

brokensoul84 · 22-12-2015 01:23AM

Sounds like a scene from the Widower about Malcolm Webster.
Good god, she had major issues not just psychiatric.

lazybones32 · 22-12-2015 01:35AM

Theboybang wrote: »

I saw this earlier today. What a horrible horrible person and she didn't get nearly enough time in the slammer. Karma is a b*tch though!

And what evil did the manipulated woman do that karma decided she deserved this? What goes around comes around, right?

Theboybang · 22-12-2015 01:38AM

lazybones32 wrote: »

And what evil did the manipulated woman do that karma decided she deserved this? What goes around comes around, right?

I was talking about the girl not the lecturer

My name is URL · 22-12-2015 01:41AM

MilesMorales1 wrote: »

Is this girl not absolutely off her head though? Or she's cold as ice, I couldn't do that, my conscience would wreck me it would, not her apparently.

I'd say they're both off their heads

PandaPoo · 22-12-2015 01:43AM

Theboybang wrote: »

I was talking about the girl not the lecturer

You missed his point entirely. He was asking if this incident was karmic retribution for something the lecturer did previously, because that's how karma works.

MilesMorales1 · 22-12-2015 01:48AM

My name is URL wrote: »

I'd say they're both off their heads

Yeah but still.

SMJSF · 22-12-2015 02:42AM

It's sad, but after reading it, I actually know someone who is the exactly the same in lying and making up stories about people who are close to them dying for attention in the recent years and I've have only copped on to it in the recent months.
:-/.

Sunflower 27 · 22-12-2015 04:22AM

I think tbe girl said she only had a few months to live and had been kicked out of home. Anyone hearing that story would believe it. I mean, how many people would make that up?

I think it unfair to call the teacher naive. She clearly felt responsible for this younger woman.

Just a really sad story.

topmanamillion · 22-12-2015 04:58AM

This is text book Munchausen syndrome
"Munchausen syndrome is a psychiatric factitious disorder wherein those affected feign disease, illness, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves."

I have a friend who went to college with a girl who faked having cancer. She went as far as shaving her head and eating a reduced diet.

Student fakes terminal illness to con her lecturer

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