The Saga of a Lonely Girl
Posted: Saturday, September 03, 2011
by Jack H. Schick
I guess I feel sorry for Alicia Tolton. She reminds me a lot of a girl I went to high school with. They always print the same portrait of Alicia in the newspaper. They’ve surely got more of her by now--mug shots at least—but they always use the same old one. Maybe it’s the most flattering they can find. That would be a shame. She’s real chubby and way short of handsome. She cuts her hair short or has it slicked back. You can’t really tell which. It makes her look like a fat man. She’s frowning and her and jowls hang. She’s got a big double chin. Her eyes are small, seem close together and are beady. She looks more morose and sullen than sad, but I’m sure she’s very sad. The way the past couple of years have gone for her, I can understand why; but then, she was probably sad and lonely before. It might help explain how she got into this fix.
It turned out there were no medical bills, though. She’d lied. Alicia didn’t have cancer at all. It was just a scam she came up with. The “friends” who had put in the effort to help her, and the people who donated money for her expenses were angry, as might be expected. They ratted her out and the police got involved. During the investigation Alicia admitted that she had also “victimized” her parents. She was charge with fraud and other related crimes for the cancer scam, and theft for the deal with her parents.
During the proceedings, Alicia complicated things by making harassing phone calls to the “friends” who turned her in. She apparently threatened to get even with them for exposing her scam. Reports are that some of the phone calls were made from the prison where she was being held because she couldn’t come up with bail (she’d already spent the donated money and the money she’d gotten from her parents). Some “friends” repeatedly received obscene and threatening phone calls. Authorities charged Alicia with making harassing calls and even considered witness intimidation charges, but they felt sorry for her.
Alicia was found guilty, and on July 25, 2011, she was sentenced for the cancer scam, and for the harassment calls. She got 11½ to 23 months in jail and three years probation. The judge apparently felt sorry for her and backdated the sentence to when she was arrested. Since she had already served the minimum amount of time and had been well behaved, she was released the next day, on July 26, 2011. All she had to do was make it through her three years probation and she could return to her “normal” life.
Who of us who have not been there really knows what goes on behind prison walls and how some people might react to it? On her first visit to her probation officer on July 29th, Alicia told him that, the day before, she had used cocaine and pills that she didn’t have a prescription for. She’d been out of jail for less than two days! She was immediately ordered into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center. That wasn’t good enough for her, though. It wasn’t enough like “home,” I guess. From the rehab center she made more harassing calls to two witnesses who had testified at her sentencing hearing. One woman reported ‘hang-up’ calls; the other produced an obscenity laced voice mail. Police had no trouble guessing who made the calls when they traced them to the rehab center.
We can’t know for sure that it is what she wanted, but Alicia is back in the county prison in lieu of $10,000 bail. In addition, she is being held without bail until a hearing can be held for the parole/probation violations. When that’s settled, she’ll patiently wait for her trial and sentencing on the new harassment charges. No court dates have been set in either case. There is no report that Alicia is complaining about the delay. Rumor has it she’s already made some new friends, and appears to be very comfortable, back at the jail.
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Top-level comments on this article: (2 total)Looks like Alicia has a "place of her own?" One can only wonder. Interesting. Another well developed and described character.Yea, sort of wierd, isn't it? Thanks for reading and commenting
she gets sentenced today I wonder if the judge will let her walk again - you know cause she did not scam him?Thanks for reading and commenting--sorry if you were hurt.
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