The woman accused of pretending to be terminally ill to scam an Egg Harbor Township family has released a statement apologizing for her actions.
Kiley White, 26, is charged with theft by deception and harassment in the case in which she is accused of faking brain cancer and even pretending to be her own hospice nurse to convince the family she was sick.
The Facebook posts talks about a web of lies that grew as a way to escape her past and find a home and family to accept her.
"Before I knew it — one lie turned into a hundred and that spirals out of control," she wrote. "All of a sudden I’m sitting in a church pew with a mask on pretending to have cancer absolutely drowning in lies and willing to do anything so no one would catch on."
But it's not the first time White has lied about being sick.
The Yoneys first
told KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh about White back in 2016, when the then-22-year-old woman allegedly lied about being terminally ill and asked if they would adopt her 4-year-old daughter.
The family, whose then-22-year-old daughter was in need of a double lung transplant at the time, learned not only was White not ill, but the little girl was not hers.
“I’m actually really happy,” Tammy Yoney
told KDKA-TV of the arrest. “I hope it forces her to get the help she needs. She needs to be off the streets because she’s hurting too many people.”
The lies in Atlantic County began in an attempt to escape the story back in Pittsburgh, White wrote on Facebook.
https://www.facebook.com/kileyelizabethhhhhh/posts/10156279398456539
"Sometimes my lies began with wishing I could cover up the Pittsburgh news story with the Yoney family," she wrote. "I moved to New Jersey, or should I say.. I ran to New Jersey.. the week after that aired."
She said the story followed her and those who heard immediately hated her.
So, she created a new identity.
Her lies to the Evanses in Egg Harbor Township wasn't to get financial gain or even have a home, since she says she had an apartment. It was to have a family, she said.
As a result of her arrest she has lost her job and her apartment and received "hundreds of texts telling me to kill myself, thousands of Facebook comments about how the world would be better off without me" and been harassed by news cameras and physically assaulted, she said.
Galloway Township is now looking into previous claims against her, NBC-10 reported.
Mainland Baptist Church collected money for White to get her a home. But she apologized and promised to get help, and no charges were filed, the station reported.
"I'll do my best to explain the thought process behind those lies, because I know that's what everyone keeps questioning," White wrote on FA. "But keep in mind — I am just beginning to barely understand myself."
White's father twice survived Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, she said.
"I saw firsthand the Hell that cancer was and is," she wrote. "It killed me knowing I was pretending to fight something only real-life superheroes battle."
But the lies continued.
White was arrested on her way back to the Evanses' home last week, after spending about five weeks with them.
