By AP/St. Louis Public Radio
St. Louis – A St. Charles woman has been sentenced to five years in prison for taking out student loans in the names of her two daughters, and then gambling away the money.
Fifty-year-old Cynthia Tiemann pleaded guilty to seven counts of forgery in September. She took out nearly $140,000 in bogus loans, forging the signature of her mother as a co-signer.
Tiemann's two daughters say their mother never meant to hurt them, and the loans have been removed from their credit histories.