NEW YORK (AP) — A New York City school employee has lost her job over accusations she faked her daughter’s death so she could take a vacation to Costa Rica.
The Daily News (http://nydn.us/wt3u0K) says a school official became suspicious of the forged death certificate. A special investigator’s report says it had different fonts that were misaligned.
Court records show Joan Barnett pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor in the case this fall. She was also fired from her job as a parent coordinator at the Manhattan High School of Hospitality Management.
She allegedly told school officials her daughter died in Costa Rica so she could spend 212 weeks there in March 2010.
