Calgary Woman Faces Sentencing For Using POA To Sell, Rip Off Proceeds Of, Hospitalized Disabled Cousin's Home & Vehicle

In Calgary, Alberta, the Calgary Herald reports:

• A city woman, ordered by the court last year to repay $180,000 after she bilked her disabled cousin of all his valuable assets, now faces jail time. Joy Marie Barkley, 54, was scheduled to be sentenced [...] on one count of theft over $5,000, but the case was adjourned [...] when a forensic report was not ready.

• Court heard Ron Kaake had given power of attorney to Barkley in 2006 when he was placed in a long-term care facility with complications from multiple sclerosis. But when the bed-ridden man's condition improved after a year in Dr. Vernon Fanning Centre [...], he discovered Barkley had sold his vehicle and condo and then gambled away the proceeds.(1)

For more, see Calgary woman faces jail time after robbing disabled cousin.

(1) According to the story, Crown prosecutor Susan Kennedy told the court that Barkley sold Kaake's 2004 Toyota Sienna to a Calgary dealership just a week after Kaake was hospitalized with serious complications stemming from his chronic illness. Four days later, the woman sold her cousin's home in Cochrane and deposited the proceeds into his bank account, but withdrew the entire amount during the next 12 months and spent the money for personal use. DeedContraTheft