{"id":150994,"date":"2023-12-18T15:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T20:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=150994"},"modified":"2023-12-18T21:13:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T02:13:10","slug":"sarah-cavanaugh-have-a-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=150994","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Cavanaugh: Have A Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sarah Cavanaugh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ve written about the woman in Rhode Island that posed as a sick Marine and bilked people out of a quarter million dollars. Although currently in prison, there’s a good chance the laws will change and she can get out early, but apparently that’s not good enough for Sarah – she wants released now citing compassionate reasoning.<\/p>\n

RI woman imprisoned in stolen valor case seeks compassionate release<\/strong><\/a>
\nby: Eli Sherman | Dec 18, 2023<\/p>\n

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) \u2014 The East Greenwich woman imprisoned for stealing a sick marine\u2019s identity to defraud victims of hundreds of thousands of dollars is seeking early release, claiming she and a group of inmates were denied access to food and water while quarantining with COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Sarah Cavanaugh, 32, who was sentenced earlier this year to nearly six years in federal prison, filed a motion for compassionate release Friday, arguing she and 16 other inmates were being subjected to abusive conditions. Cavanaugh is currently incarcerated in federal prison in Danbury, Connecticut.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are currently isolated from the general population, in a building where the water fountains do not work, the overhead lights do not turn off, and we must wait for food to be brought to us,\u201d Cavanaugh wrote in a letter to U.S. District Court Judge John McConnell on Dec. 10.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, as of today, day 4, we have run out of water 4 times and are not allowed to leave the building for any reason, or risk a \u2018shot,’\u201d she added. (A \u201cshot\u201d is a colloquial term meaning a mark is put on an inmate\u2019s record for violating the rules.)<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, Cavanaugh pleaded guilty in a notorious stolen-valor case after investigators discovered she\u2019d stolen the identity of a Marine with cancer. Using the stolen identity, Cavanaugh fraudulently collected a quarter million over five years from charitable donations and employee-benefit programs.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am asking for compassionate release due to the extraordinary, compelling and distressing circumstances of being held without access to water and food,\u201d she wrote. \u201cI am asking for help for each woman here with me.\u201d<\/p>\n

The letter to McConnell was sent a day after Cavanaugh and 16 other inmates signed a letter to a private attorney, claiming they were sleeping on cots in a cold room with only one shower.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe were given 17 rolls of toilet paper and told to make it last 5 days,\u201d Cavanaugh wrote. \u201cThe lack of food is intensifying \u2014 last night the dinner was ground beef and two inmates, with existing religious and medical diets, did not receive alternative meals. Breakfast was not served this morning.\u201d<\/p>\n

Requests for compassionate release \u2014 meaning someone asking to get out of prison early because of extraordinary circumstances \u2014 have become far more common since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Whether Cavanaugh will qualify, however, is likely a tall order considering the severity of her crimes.<\/p>\n

\u201cSarah Cavanaugh\u2019s conduct in the course of her scheme is nothing short of appalling,\u201d Rhode Island U.S. Attorney Zachary Cunha said in March when Cavanaugh was sentenced. \u201cBy brazenly laying claim to the honor, service, and sacrifice of real veterans, this defendant preyed on the charity and decency of others for her own shameless financial gain.\u201d<\/p>\n

McConnell has ordered Cunha\u2019s office respond to the Cavanaugh\u2019s \u201callegations about abusive conditions\u201d by Wednesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I can relate. Often when I go to a restaurant I have to suffer the indignity of having to wait for someone to bring me my food.<\/p>\n

Then, \u201cWe were given 17 rolls of toilet paper and told to make it last 5 days.”\u00a0 SHOCK!\u00a0 How can any human being be expected to tolerate such conditions?\u00a0 I go through 25 rolls myself in a day and a half, and that’s not counting using it for Kleenex-related purposes. On the other hand – clearly, she has never been to the field in her imaginary time with the Marines. How many MRE TP packets equal one roll?<\/p>\n

Then, she had to sleep on a cot vs. the hard ground. Again, it’s obvious that she has not been to the field in her imaginary time with the Marines.<\/p>\n

A shower?\u00a0 She had a shower?\u00a0 Clearly, she never took a field\/helmet bath in her imaginary time with the Marines.<\/p>\n

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G.I. “Helmet Bath” (NOTE: NOT Sarah Cavanaugh in photo)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Appalling! I say… appalling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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