Mother Lied To Win Contest For Daughter
What the hell is wrong with so many mothers these days that they’re crossing all limits of decency while portraying themselves as acting on behalf of their kids? First there was Lori Drew, the meddling Mom who cyberbullied a teenage girl into committing suicide, and now there’s Priscilla Ceballos, who lied about her husband dying in Iraq so her daughter would win a contest for Hannah Montana tickets.
The organizers of the Club Libby Lu “Hannah Montana Rock Your Holidays Essay Contest” solicited essays from little girls interested in winning a Hannah Montana makeover at the club along with tickets to the sold out Albany concert, airfare and hotel accommodations and a Hannah Montana gift bag.
Ceballos’ six-year-old daughter’s essay began “My daddy died this year in Iraq…”. Her mother told contest organizers that the girl’s father was killed by a roadside bomb on April 17 in Iraq. She said his name was Sgt. Jonathon Menjivar.
When Club Libby Lu surprised Ceballos’ daughter at her local mall, organizers asked her about her father’s death. “We don’t really want to talk about that … OK?” her mother responded, then she whisked her daughter out of the store.
Journalists investigated the girl’s essay and learned that only one soldier was killed in Iraq on April 17, and his name wasn’t Jonathon Menjivar. In fact, the DOD has no record of anyone with that name, although the girl’s grandmother says he’s alive and well and living in another town.
Priscilla Ceballos has since been confronted with the lie and told a Dallas TV station yesterday morning, “We did the essay and that’s what we did to win. We did whatever we could do to win.”
Notice the we part, folks. Priscilla Ceballos, a fully grown woman, is now shifting blame for lying about a soldier’s death to her 6-year-old daughter whom, she says, knew the essay was fiction when she wrote it.
Ceballos has since told Fox News reporters that she’s been unfairly depicted in the media, portrayed as a liar. But, according to Ceballos, she wasn’t really deceitful.
“We never said this was a true story. We do essays all the time. My daughter does essays at school all the time. It never did say it had to be true.
There are some things, as the rest of us know, that shouldn’t have to be spelled out but that seems to be one of those true things that Priscilla Ceballos and, apparently, her daughter don’t quite grasp.
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Correct me if I’m wrong, but there seems to be a veritable vacuum of ethical behavior all around. Kids, parents, politicians, pastors… Right and wrong… Is it really that hard to understand?
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It saddens me to no end that parents will lie, especially for such trivial things as concert tickets and use their children as pawns to do it. A six year old should not be taught to use death and deceit in order to benefit. It makes you wonder, under the careful teachings of her Mother, how far this child will go to get what she wants as she gets older.
What kind of sick mind INVENTS something like that to win stupid tickets that will be passe in a year anyway. Or at all? She makes me sick and every veterans group ought to be on her ass for this.
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I have to agree that it’s starting to seem like some weird moral vacuum is going on. And that parents are increasingly responsible for it. What sickens me is that it’s all for things that will, when the kids are adults themselves, be utterly irrelevant.
Like Jae pointed out: Hannah Montana will probably be so 2007, but even if she’s not, is that little girl likely to be a huge HM fan when she’s an adult? Probably not.
Or with the case of Lori Drew, would her little girl’s life be forever ruined because of a friendship falling apart in her early teens? Of COURSE not.
So many parents we read about these days seem determined to police every toy their kid plays with, every TV show they watch, every vaccine they take, all in the name of safety. Then they take it a step further to try to protect their kids from every little emotional boo-boo, too.
Makes you wonder if we’re raising a generation of emotional cripples, doesn’t it?
They should still get the tickets… but only if sent by DHL… the day before the concert
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Bwhahahahaha! You’re so evil.
What’s the big deal?? this is retarded and allot of people on here are preety retarded. Everyones laughing about this, no one cares..it makes me sick to see so many people over reacted to this.
although it is bad to lie, I think it is preety stupid to make a news story out if this. I agree with Jason on this one.
That’s probably because you both have the same IP address and apparently share the same singular brain cell between you.
you both have the same IP address
…and both misspell ‘pretty’ the same way.
ROFL
Which reminds me, what is the plural of penis?
Oh, wait, I know: dicks.
This made me so angry when I read it this morning. I have a husband that has proudly served in the USAF for 14 years and he was in Iraq shortly after we got married and found out we were expecting our first child. I lived with the fear of loseing him of him never meeting our son and this little ***** goes and writes an essay that basically exploits real military spouses pain! And to top it of she writes it herself when it was her daughters job to write an essay to win the tickets yeah she isn’t teach her kids any kinds of values or morals at all!
I couldn’t have said it better myself, Lori.
Jason,
Until you have had to live the life of a military spouse I don’t expect you to understand how it feels to live with the what ifs when your spouse is sent off to a war zone! She is a sorry excuse for a human being for exploiting other people’s real pain for her daughters own gain. I know people who have lost husbands and children who have lost fathers! But as they say Karma is a b…. and I hope it bites her right in the butt!
Lori -
Thank your husband for me for all of his years of service.
How about this? How about Club Libby Lu sues this woman for fraud (there was definitely some additional expense involved here on their part, having to award the tickets and makeover twice, etc. etc.). But instead of money they tell the judge that they want this woman to spend one month as a candy striper (or whatever they call them these days) in the amputee ward at Walter Reed Medical Center?
Cheers,
- Bill