In-Depth Series on Internet Panhandling: The Beccah Beushausen Sick Child Scam

Part Two: In-Depth Series on Internet Panhandling

There isn't much that pulls at heartstrings more than a child unless it's a child in need. Children suffering from illness can bring even the stoic amongst us to shed a tear, especially when we are someone connected to that child. Mothers, especially single moms, have a long road to walk with a sick child.

In 1994, my son was born, premature, but healthy for the most part. He was born in July, and by October, my then seven-year-old daughter was in need of surgery--four of them, to be exact--to repair a genetic hip disorder. It was a tough time for me. We moved to a large city to be closer to the hospital where her surgeries would be performed, and I was a single mom who had just finished college and moved far away from home in a place where I knew no one.

If Not For the Kindness of Strangers

We wouldn't have managed through that mess if not for people who were generous, whether it was with buying a meal at the cafeteria for me or sitting up with me late at night when I was at the hospital while my daughter slept so I wouldn't go insane. Charity at its finest is when people give to others in true need (and hopefully temporary need) out of the sheer kindness and generosity of their hearts, and then the person who receives the charity will, one day, pay it forward to someone else in need.

I paid if forward by going into a caring, healing and helping profession, where I assisted others going through hard times in their lives, people seeking a hand up and not a hand out. I believe people are, by nature, caring and generous and giving and that most people are honest and decent. It is that strength in human beings that gets preyed upon by those who seek to take advantage of others.

Beccah Beushausen and the Unborn Sick Baby Scam