※ 2014/01/27の記事を画像を加えて再編集しました。
2週間ほど前にアメリカで話題になっていたニュースです～ 8つ子のママが生活保護費を不正に受給していた疑いで、刑事罰として訴追されることになりそうです。自分の収入を正確に報告していなかったようです。
8つ子は英語でoctupletといいますが、始めうまく発音できず、会社でおしゃべりした時に少し苦労しました。アクセントポイントがパッと分からなかったのです。が、大きな話題だったので、すぐ向こうが察して、言い直してくれました～
日本語のリンクもあったので、そちらも参考にしてくださいね♪ LA Timesにはもう少し詳しく書いてあります。
なんとこのSulemanさん、8つ子の時からアメリカではかなり有名人で、いろいろと話題を提供しているようです。なんと、他にもすでに 6人の子供がいて、合計14人だそうです。
会社の人とも話しましたが、禁固刑になった場合に、14人の子供はだれがどうやって面倒を見るのでしょうね。
"Octomom"
Nadya Suleman, who drew international attention in 2009 when she gave
birth to octuplets, could face years in jail for allegedly failing to
disclose nearly $30,000 in earnings when she applied for welfare last
year, prosecutors announced Monday.
Suleman, 38, is only the
second U.S. woman to deliver a healthy set of octuplets. The Los Angeles
County District Attorney’s Office said prosecutors recently charged her
with one count of aid by misrepresentation and two counts of perjury by
false application for aid.
Suleman, who has a total of 14 children, filed for welfare in
Lancaster in January and February of last year, but in the following
months didn’t report all of her income from personal appearances and
video royalties, Deputy Dist. Atty. William Clark said in a criminal
complaint.
The charges carry a maximum
sentence of five years, eight months in custody. Suleman, who was not
arrested, is scheduled to appear in court for arraignment Friday, when
prosecutors are expected to ask that bail be set at $25,000.
The criminal complaint alleges that Suleman illegally received
$16,481 in welfare payments — $6,667 from the CalWorks financial
assistance program and $9,814 from the CalFresh food aid program —
during the first six months of 2013.
After the octuplets were born, Suleman, a single mother, was widely
criticized because she had used in vitro fertilization to become
pregnant. She was on public assistance at the time.
Suleman's fertility doctor, Michael Kamrava, later had his
medical license revoked by the state medical board. The panel ruled that Kamrava “did not exercise sound judgment" in the transfer of 12 embryos to Suleman.
よろしければ、クリックいただけると嬉しいです♪
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