Cops: Mother Used Sex Ads on Craigslist to Retaliate Against Daughter's Rival
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It's one thing for a mother to stick up for her daughter — quite another thing for a mother to retaliate against her daughter's rival by sending sex clients to the rival's mother through a fraudulent Web ad.
Yet that's exactly what one New York mother is accused of doing, following a dispute between her 9-year-old daughter and another girl.
Margery Tannenbaum of Hauppauge on Long Island was charged with aggravated harassment for allegedly posting a classified ad on Craigslist offering sex with men, the Associated Press reports. But whenever someone responded to Tannenbaum's ad by e-mail, she gave out the phone number of the other mother, police said.
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Tannenbaum did not answer her door on Friday and her attorney did not respond to telephone calls seeking comment.
The charges echo a high-profile case of a Missouri mother who was convicted last year for her role in a MySpace hoax that led to a 13-year-old committing suicide. In that case, the mother is to be sentenced on May 18 and faces up to three years in prison.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.