Childhood cancer charity founder pleads guilty to embezzlement [Video]

MISSOURI, USA — A Missouri woman who founded a nonprofit after her daughter died from cancer pleaded guilty to stealing from the organization and will now spend five years in prison.

As part of the plea agreement, Dana Manley, 53, will also have to pay a family $5,000 that was promised to them from the organization Sydney’s Soldiers Always that they never received.

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The nonprofit disbanded in 2021 due to Manley’s embezzlement. Manley and several other mothers whose children died from cancer founded the organization to provide “bucket list” trips to children with terminal cancer.

The investigation began after some of the board members were alerted to an overdrawn accountand began an internal investigation. Manley then admitted to stealing the …