Woman Wanted By Cops For Fraudulently Buying Five Properties Turns Out To Be 9 Year Old Child Victimized By I.D. Theft

Buried in a recent story by Reuters news service on how fraud has exacerbated the housing crisis is this excerpt:

• In a recent case in Chicago, [...] the authorities prepared to file charges against a woman who had fraudulently bought five properties. "When we turned up to serve papers on her, we found she was 9 years old," [...]. "Her uncle had stolen her identity."

Source: Fraud compounds woes of housing crisis.