{"id":343671,"date":"2026-07-17T17:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343671\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T17:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T17:55:14","slug":"florida-woman-who-faked-gofundme-for-camp-mystic-flood-victims-family-sentenced-to-3-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343671\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida woman who faked GoFundMe for Camp Mystic flood victim\u2019s family sentenced to 3 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

Maitlin White, 29, took a plea deal on online impersonation charges after posing as Chloe Childress\u2019 family to solicit donations, court records show<\/p>\n

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The Florida woman who created a GoFundMe last year and posed as the family of a Camp Mystic flooding victim has been sentenced to 3 years in prison after accepting a plea deal.<\/p>\n

Maitlin White, 29, was charged with two counts of online impersonation and court records show she accepted a plea deal Friday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is inexcusable how she sought to prey on the emotions of our community and abused the family of Chloe Childress who have endured an unimaginable tragedy,\u201d Harris County Constable Precinct One Alan Rosen, said in a statement. \u201cLet this be a warning to anyone else who ever seeks to engage in such schemes in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to court records, she told investigators she was a single mother of two children looking to make quick money and used her cell phone to set up a fake GoFundMe impersonating Chloe Childress\u2019 family. GoFundMe told us her account has been banned from future fundraising on the platform.<\/p>\n

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Bryce Newberry joined KPRC 2 in July 2022. He loves the thrill of breaking news and digging deep on a story that gets people talking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maitlin White, 29, took a plea deal on online impersonation charges after posing as Chloe Childress\u2019 family to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343672,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[58049,140910,265,28,30,29,1136,77671,140908,23680,140909],"class_list":["post-343671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-camp-mystic","tag-chloe-childress","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gofundme","tag-harris-county","tag-hill-country-floods","tag-houston","tag-maitlin-white"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}