JACKSON – A Hinds County woman, who was once employed as a sitter for an elderly woman, has been arrested and charged with forging her signature on a check. Helen Childress, 56, of the 700 block of Glencross Drive, was indicted by a Rankin County grand jury on one count of felony forgery.
Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said Childress used the rubber stamp of an elderly woman to affix her signature to a check she allegedly stole from the woman.
Hood said Childress, who at one time provided sitter services to the victim, allegedly wrote the check to herself in the amount of $360.
Childress was taken into custody by investigators with the Medicaid Fraud Unit of the Attorney General’s Office and the Hinds County Sheriff’s Department.
If she is convicted, Childress faces up to 10 years in jail and a $10,000 fine.
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