People have been known to make up lies to get out of doing their jobs.

A Georgia woman, however, took things a step further by pretending to be pregnant in order to obtain seven weeks

of paid leave from her employer. Furthermore, it wasn’t the first time she had concocted a tale about giving birth.

She is currently facing three counts of making false claims and one count of using another person’s identity.

The Georgia Office of the Inspector General (OIG) explained in a press release that the lady (43), who worked as the director of external relations at a rehabilitation agency (GVRA),

made complex fabrications regarding her ‘pregnancy’. In late 2020, she informed the organization that she was expecting a child, stating that she intended to give birth in May 2021.

On the other hand, her coworkers were immediately sceptical. The woman had a ‘baby bump,’ but one of her coworkers noticed that something wasn’t quite right with her.

In March 2021, a coworker suspected a lady of wearing a fake pregnant tummy after observing the bottom portion of the ‘pregnant’ woman’s stomach ‘tear away’ from her body.

She allegedly sent pictures of her new child to various agency employees while feigning to be ‘pregnant’, but the images were inconsistent and seemed to show distinct children.

In fact, it is said that the woman’s coworkers were the ones who realized she was lying.

The Agency workers, in particular those in human resources, didn’t initially detect anything odd, but fortunately

they didn’t brush it off as a misunderstanding. They realized that this was considerably more serious than they had initially thought.

In October 2021, detectives questioned the woman regarding her kids.

Her motivation seemed to be paid time off. On May 1, 2021, a man who claimed to be the child’s father

got in touch with her agency’s leaders and said that her doctor had ‘ordered six weeks of rest after the birth.’

Her managers consequently gave her seven weeks of paid vacation.

Investigators were unable to find any evidence that the person actually existed, therefore she was accused of identity fraud even though that person was wholly the woman’s creation.

Her birth certificates were examined by the Inspectors, who found ‘no evidence that she had ever delivered a child.’

If found guilty of the charges against her, the woman may spend up to 25 years behind bars and pay a fine of $103,000.