Did you read the story about the blogger that got caught in her own lie?
She wrote of being pregnant and unmarried and decided to give birth to the baby even though the baby was supposed to be terminally ill.
Thousands of people prayed for her unborn baby. They sent
her donations, They cried when she said the infant died just hours after birth.
It turns out she was never even pregnant, and the whole thing was a sham. Now
she's got a lot of explaining to do.
Her website had nearly a million hits. When she posted a picture of herself with a swaddled-up doll, the jig was up.
The picture was of a doll that one reader actually owned and
many people recognized it as a doll and not a baby. The lie soon unraveled to
the outrage of all the people that kept up with her blog.
She admits now that the entire story was made up and she
wasn't a single expectant mother who lay awake at night terrified her unborn
child would die at any time, She is a 26-year-old social worker from the Chicago
suburb of Mokenka who says she didn't know how to free herself from the web of
lies she wove. "Soon I was getting 100,000 hits a week, and it just got out of
hand,"
The woman's story about giving birth to a child diagnosed while in the womb as terminally ill hit a nerve. Every night for the last two months, thousands of abortion foes from across the nation logged onto a blog run by the woman who said she was unmarried, pregnant and identified herself only as "B" or "April's Mom."
People said they prayed that God would save her pregnancy. They
e-mailed her photos of their children, shared tales of heartache and redemption
and sent letters of support and gifts.
When the hoax blew up she deleted her website and Twitter and Facebook accounts. It was too late, however. Someone found out her true identity: She said she knows it was wrong but she was so caught up in the lie and the attention that she couldn't stop.
She has since apologized for the lie but I would not want to be in her shoes, that is why it pays to tell the truth.
