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Faking it big
« on: Thursday, 14 February, 2019 @ 20:30:25 »
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Cleaner in Ioannina convicted to eight years over forged school certificate

A cleaner was convicted to eight years in prison for forging her elementary school certificate to get a job at the hospital in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, it emerged on Thursday.

The woman, a mother of 13 children, was also convicted for making a false statement in order to profit, a news website in the town of Preveza reported. It was not clear when the trial was held.

She had initially asked the court to postpone her trial saying she had a heart condition but the court dismissed the medical certificate she provided and convicted her in absentia.
http://www.ekathimerini.com/237689/article/ekathimerini/news/cleaner-in-ioannina-convicted-to-eight-years-over-forged-school-certificate

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« Reply #1 on: Thursday, 14 February, 2019 @ 20:42:29 »
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Archive shows medieval nun faked her own death to escape convent
Archbishop’s register reveals how Joan of Leeds crafted a dummy of her body that was buried, while she pursued ‘the way of carnal lust’

A team of medieval historians working in the archives at the University of York has found evidence that a nun in the 14th century faked her own death and crafted a dummy “in the likeness of her body” in order to escape her convent and pursue – in the words of the archbishop of the time – “the way of carnal lust”.

Professor Sarah Rees Jones, principal investigator on the project, said the story of Joan’s escape, which she and her team discovered last week, was “extraordinary – like a Monty Python sketch”.

A History of the County of York recounts how in 1301 a nun at the priory of St Clement named Cecily met “certain men” at the priory gate leading a saddled horse, “and, throwing off her nun’s habit, put on another robe and rode off with them to Darlington, where Gregory de Thornton was waiting for her, and with him she lived for three years or more”.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/11/archive-shows-medieval-nun-faked-her-own-death-to-escape-convent

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