"During questioning, Garcia admitted to investigators that her daughter had never been diagnosed with cancer, the Hidalgo County Sheriff's Office said on their Facebook page.

Garcia shaved her little girl's head and convinced the child she only had months to live. Thinking something seemed off, a friend alerted deputies who began looking into the matter. It didn't take long for her to come clean. "Garcia admitted during questioning that she had made up the cancer story to scam money out of generous strangers," KGBT reports.

Garcia now sits in the county adult detention Center for exploitation of a child.

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