Thread: S.C.: Tale of five babies baffles donors

Tale of five babies baffles donors

Gifts for quintuplets poured in; now Lowcountry couple in jail
By DAWN HINSHAW - dhinshaw@thestate.com

When investigators went to Nancy Cantu’s mobile home Friday, they saw donated baby clothes and packages of diapers.

What they didn’t see was a woman who was eight months pregnant with five babies.

Folks in Beaufort County had become increasingly suspicious of Cantu and her boyfriend, who spoke little English but inspired strangers to reach out to them.

As Cantu’s story of expecting quintuplets made its way from Lady’s Island to Beaufort and beyond, people who bought gifts or dug through closets for secondhand baby clothes felt duped.

“I had the investigator look her eyeball to eyeball and ask her, ‘Why did you do this?’â€

Looks like they milked the public for all they could. Anybody want to bet they weren't selling donated items at a flea market somewhere?

This angers me to no end. Nothing like trying to kill the spirit of the American people.