Mother Gets Jail Over Son’s Fake Test Scores
From Times Wire Reports
A woman who faked test scores to pose her son, now 10, as one of the most gifted children in the world has been sentenced to four days in jail for fraud.
Elizabeth Chapman, 31, was convicted of a misdemeanor charge of second-degree forgery for providing the Broomfield Department of Human Services with bogus IQ test results from when her son Justin was 3.
Chapman admitted fabricating most of her son’s achievements, including a perfect 800 score on the SAT math section.
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