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Laura Owens pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges after detectives say she faked twin pregnancies and medical records to target men, including former Bachelor star Clayton Echard. <\/p>\n
PHOENIX – It has been a long legal battle for a former reality TV star and another man, but on Friday, Aug. 28, an Arizona woman pleaded guilty to four felony counts<\/a> involving fake pregnancy claims.<\/p>\n Reaction is coming in from the attorney who represented the victims.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The story could easily become a movie about a woman, 35-year-old Laura Owens, who detectives say faked pregnancies and kept lying in an effort to continue relationships with men.<\/p>\n One of those men is former “Bachelor” star Clayton Echard. His attorney is Gregg Woodnick.<\/p>\n “Clayton’s exhausted by this. I’ve been spending time with him on and off for years since this first happened. I remember the first day I met him, when Laura was, you know, faking pregnancy essentially with twins and knowing that she had done that before to at least one other victim,” Woodnick said.<\/p>\n Instead of going to trial, she pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n “It’s been a lot of years of watching Laura do a lot of damage to a lot of men. She faked medical records. She fakes medical conditions. She’s faking pregnancy. She faked twin pregnancies multiple times, and it finally caught up to her,” he said.<\/p>\n READ MORE: Former Bachelor Clayton Echard reacts to Laura Owens’ fraud indictment<\/a><\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Owens pleaded guilty to two counts of fraudulent schemes, one count of perjury, and one count of taking another person’s identity.<\/p>\n “Sitting in the courtroom next to Clayton and one of the other victims was a lot today was, I think, emotional for the two victims that were present in the courtroom. It was a little emotional for me. It’s been quite a ride and watching her finally come in and sit there in court and acknowledge the major felonies and the harm that she’s done was a big deal,” Woodnick said.<\/p>\n Owens will be sentenced in October. She is facing up to 12 and a half years in prison.<\/p>\n “I do anticipate that she’s going to have some sort of jail consequence, and she deserves jail consequence. Society would be better if she were consequence by being in jail for a while so that we could have some assurance that there wouldn’t be other victims,” Woodnick said.<\/p>\n Crime and Public Safety<\/a>Entertainment<\/a>News<\/a>Maricopa County<\/a>Arizona<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Laura Owens pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges after detectives say she faked twin pregnancies and medical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":829532,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[2946,13591,88,47535,3,92,25],"class_list":["post-829531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-az","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-entertainment","tag-maricopa-county","tag-news","tag-tv","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829531\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}