FULL TEXT: Orlando – A 24-year-old mother of three children
was given five years of probation yesterday on her plea of guilty to receiving
dependent allotment checks from three husbands.
The woman, Mrs. Benjamin Follette of Orlando, was brought
here from State Prison at Raiford for arraignment on a charge of defrauding of
federal government. At Raiford she is serving one year for bigamy.
Frank Muscarella, assistant U. S. district attorney, told
Federal Judge William J. Barker she married John P. Rio in early 1953. Harold
E. Richardson in May of that year, and Follette in their number.
The men were stationed in Pinecastle Air Force Base near
here. Their present addresses are unknown.
Muscarella said the woman dropped the Rio allotment upon
divorcing him in July 1953 but continued to collect from Richardson after
marrying Follette.
[“Judge Places Mother Of Five On Probation,” Sarasota
Journal (Fl.), Mar. 23, 1955, p. 5]
For more cases of this type see: “War-Marriage Vampires”& “Allotment Annies"
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