Mom Fakes Son's Death to Get Out of Work!

[Seahunt]

I just read this and think this is just sick! She doesn't deserve to have kids

WATERLOO, Iowa -- Some people will do anything to get out of work.

Police in Iowa have arrested two people accused of filing a fake obituary for teenager Dan "D.J." Reddout with a newspaper to get off work for a few days.

Police said James Ralph Snyder, who is the boyfriend of Reddout's mother, and the boy's mother, Mary Jo Elizabeth Jensen, submitted a death notice to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier newspaper, saying that Jensen's 17-year-old son had died at the Mayo Clinic after a lengthy illness.

Authorities were notified after the teen was spotted at a restaurant by some family friends.

Police said the pair did it so they could get off work for a few days.

Both Snyder and Jensen worked at Tyson Foods and started taking time off from work in December by claiming the boy was hospitalized with an illness, the paper reported.

As the scheme continued, Tyson officials were told the boy was on life support and had died, according to the paper.

Snyder and Jensen took several days for funeral leave, the paper reported. After they took the days off, officials from Tyson told the pair they needed verification for their absences, the paper reported.

"The boyfriend eventually went to the Waterloo Courier and had a false obituary placed in the newspaper to satisfy their employer," the Courier reported.

The Courier reported that the teen's mother said the fake obituary was caused by "bad communication" and that Snyder submitted the obituary after she told him her son was ill and she had joked about his death.

Synder is charged with tampering with records. Jensen is charged with being an accessory after the fact.

The obituary read as follows:

Dan “D.J.” Reddout (1988-2005)




WATERLOO — Dan “D.J.” Reddout, 17, of Waterloo, died Saturday, Dec. 24, at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn., of complications from surgery.

He was born April 26, 1988, in Waterloo, son of James Snyder and Mary Jo Jensen. He attended West High School.

Survived by: his parents of Waterloo; grandparents, Vern and Edie Reddout of Iowa City and Glenda Tidaman of Waterloo; an uncle, Kevin Reddout of Cedar Rapids; and two aunts, Janet Reddout of Cedar Rapids and Sandy (Randy) Lee of Stout.

Graveside services: were Tuesday at Osage Memorial Cemetery, Osage.


Memorials: may be directed to the family

 

[Beth76]

Karma.

 

[highland3]

Oh man... that's deparate!

 

[olena]

Karma.

What lazy scumbags!

 

[jer1997]

That's sick! What lengths people to go to get some days off at work!

 

[HomeSweetDisney]

People really disgust me sometimes.

 

[golfgal]

How stupid do you have to be to do this? How on earth would they think that no one would ever see this kid again??????

 

[DawnCt1]

At least they didn't kill the kid.

 

[Disney Ella]

I don't know how you could do something like that and not feel terrible. Wishing death on your child!

At one of my previous jobs, we had a secretary invent a brother who conveniently died just at the time she wanted to take some time off. When we tried to send flowers to the funeral home, we found that the place did not even exist.

 

[tinkerbell1967]

That is pretty sad. I just read that a couple in MO?? not sure if that is the correct state, lied and said that they had sextuplets and that they were in intensive care. People were giving them donations and holding fundraisers, the women even did an interview and show the reporter 6 cribs, sets of clothes and everything. Police investigated and found out it was all a hoax, the couple were trying to collect money from people to pay off their high amount of bills!!

 

[KatelynnsAuntie]

That's just crazy. Along the lines of the finger in the chili incident.

 

[SueM in MN]

Where my DH works, someone's mother died several times.
Another "communication problem"?

I don't understand how those people could think no one would ever see their child again.

 

[jenks0718]

Some of these people are just very very sick. To say the least. How can you even look your kid in the eye the same way after something like this? What was so important that they wanted off?!?!??!?!

 

[Holly]

Total loser.

 

[N.Bailey]

If I were that mother, I'd be in total fear that something would happen to my son. Ya know, that karma thing? This is just totally beyond repulsive.

 

[HERSEY]

Well she and the boyfriend may get many days off, on the unemployment line. I worked with someone who call in to say her Dad had died. To bad no one let the Dad in that he had died. He called while she was at his "funeral". Needless to say he was very surprised.