{"id":130586,"date":"2022-09-13T06:39:43","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=130586"},"modified":"2022-09-13T06:45:17","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:45:17","slug":"woman-pleads-guilty-in-stolen-valor-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=130586","title":{"rendered":"Woman Pleads Guilty in Stolen Valor Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/web-beutler.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-129369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/web-beutler-500x313.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/web-beutler-500x313.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/web-beutler-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/web-beutler-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/web-beutler.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A Georgia woman has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from lying about a Purple Heart as well as lying about her daughter having cancer.<\/p>\n<p>You may recall that we wrote about Gabrielle Beutler <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129368\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-xl-12 layout-section wrap-bottom\">\n<div class=\"article-header-chain | width_full\">\n<div class=\"article-header-chain-col1\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 bHcmtQ headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/news\/trending\/vfw-commander-pleads-guilty-lying-about-purple-heart-9-year-old-daughters-cancer\/COFXZSEVYJHWDDCEC4IS5EZF6A\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>VFW commander pleads guilty to lying about purple heart, 9-year-old daughter\u2019s cancer<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 bHcmtQ headline\"><em>By<span class=\"ts-byline__names\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\">\u00a0Lauren Silver, Cox Media Group National Content Desk<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"hidden_sm\"><time class=\"primary-font__PrimaryFontStyles-o56yd5-0 bHcmtQ date undefined\" datetime=\"2022-09-12T19:55:21.666Z\">September 12, 2022<\/time><\/p>\n<p>LAVONIA, Ga. \u2014 A woman serving as a Veterans of Foreign Wars commander in Georgia was sentenced to prison on charges of impersonating a military veteran, forgery and first-degree cruelty to children.<\/p>\n<p>Gabrielle Beutler pleaded guilty Wednesday in Franklin County, Georgia, after she lied on the paperwork she submitted to join the Lavonia VFW,\u00a0WYFF reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 iMZqoB body-paragraph\">Beutler was also accused of altering documents so that she would be promoted within the VFW, and used false documentation to get Purple Heart license plates for her vehicles,\u00a0The Hartwell Sun\u00a0reported. Beutler allegedly told people that she had been injured by an improvised explosive device while serving in Afghanistan and was a Purple Heart recipient.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 iMZqoB body-paragraph\">\u201cThis individual had, in fact, altered and fabricated information on her form,\u201d Lavonia Police Chief Bruce Carlisle told\u00a0WYFF. \u201cShe reported she had been injured in the military to the extent of losing a leg in the military, when in fact, I believe it was determined she had never made it out of basic training.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 iMZqoB body-paragraph\">Beutler was sentenced to two years in prison, to be followed by 15 years of probation, and was also ordered to pay restitution, the\u00a0Athens Banner-Herald\u00a0reported. The amount of restitution has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 iMZqoB body-paragraph\">Prosecutors said that while acting as post commander of the VFW, Beutler lied about her daughter having terminal cancer, going so far as to shave the 9-year-old\u2019s head,\u00a0WYFF\u00a0reported.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nHow does one get away with claiming they lost a leg when they didn&#8217;t?\u00a0 That&#8217;s a head-scratcher.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Georgia woman has pleaded guilty to charges stemming from lying about a Purple Heart as &hellip; <a title=\"Woman Pleads Guilty in Stolen Valor Case\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=130586\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Woman Pleads Guilty in Stolen Valor Case<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":663,"featured_media":129371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[461,408],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-purple-heart","category-stolen-valor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/663"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130587,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130586\/revisions\/130587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/129371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}