Lie in an essay costs girl her prize
A 6-year-old who won four tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay falsely claiming her father died in Iraq isn’t going to the show after all. The contest’s sponsor, a store chain named Club Libby Lu, withdrew the prize and awarded it to another contestant.
The grand prize included airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the Jan. 9 sold-out concert.
The opening line in the essay was: “My daddy died this year in Iraq.”
The girl’s mother, Priscilla Ceballos of Garland, had told Club Libby Lu officials that the girl’s father died April 17 in a roadside bombing in Iraq. She admitted Friday that it was not true.
“We did the essay, and that’s what we did to win. We did whatever we could do to win,” the mother said in a TV interview in Dallas.
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