A Seattle-area woman who said her daughter was injured by a glass shard in a bottle of water has been sentenced to jail for carrying out a hoax.

Kelsey Macom was sentenced to 30 days in jail and three months of home detention after demanding $3,000 from Coca-Cola to settle her 2008 claim that her 7-year-old daughter was injured by a piece of glass in a bottle of Dasani water, a Coke product. Macom claimed her daughter’s throat was cut so badly she could hardly eat foods and was coughing up blood.

The federal judge in the case described the crime as “despicable.”  Prosecutors said the case was even more troubling considering Macom was a former Better Business Bureau employee.

—Source:  The Seattle Times