PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An 83-year-old woman was in court to watch as two relatives who wiped out her savings and sold her home were sent to prison.
Court records indicate the relatives expected Evelyn Roth to die when she was diagnosed with cancer in February 2008. Instead, she made a remarkable recovery. Then she learned that a cousin and a niece who had obtained power of attorney had sold her Portland home and her car, pocketed the proceeds and emptied out her accounts.
Roth’s cousin, 66-year-old Virginia Ann Kuehn and her oldest niece, 53-year-old Kathleen Sue Jingling, pleaded no contest to seven counts of first-degree criminal mistreatment, aggravated theft and first-degree theft.
Multnomah County Circuit Court Judge John Wittmayer sentenced each on Monday to a year and a day in prison, followed by five years probation.
