ST. PETERS, MO -
A St. Peters woman was busted by her own family for allegedly using student loans for her daughters to fund her gambling habit.
St. Peters Police public information officer, Melissa Doss said, "They knew they had to press charges against their own mother." Cynthia Tiemann may have given them no choice.
"She had a gambling addiction and had gambled away about $139,000 in student loans," said Doss.
Tiemann is accused of forging seven student loans check that she applied for in two of her daughters names. Police say she blew the money at the Casino Queen.
"In order for that to taken off their credit report they had to be a victim of a crime. If they weren't a victim of a crime that would have been impossible for them to do." Loans that weren't discovered for nearly a year and a half. Tiemann's girls are now 20 and 22.
"Her father suggested that she start learning about her credit so he suggested that she pull her credit report online and that's when she found out about the student loans that were taken out in her name," said Doss.
St. Peters police say Tiemann also took advantage of her 71-year-old mother.
"She also forged her mothers information on the loans because she had to have a co-signer," said Doss. Last November she confessed and turned herself in. She's in the St. Charles County Jail on a $50,000 cash only bond.
Cynthia Tiemann is scheduled to appear in St. Charles County court on Monday April, 6th to face 7 counts of forgery.
St. Peters Police public information officer, Melissa Doss said, "They knew they had to press charges against their own mother." Cynthia Tiemann may have given them no choice.
"She had a gambling addiction and had gambled away about $139,000 in student loans," said Doss.
Tiemann is accused of forging seven student loans check that she applied for in two of her daughters names. Police say she blew the money at the Casino Queen.
"In order for that to taken off their credit report they had to be a victim of a crime. If they weren't a victim of a crime that would have been impossible for them to do." Loans that weren't discovered for nearly a year and a half. Tiemann's girls are now 20 and 22.
"Her father suggested that she start learning about her credit so he suggested that she pull her credit report online and that's when she found out about the student loans that were taken out in her name," said Doss.
St. Peters police say Tiemann also took advantage of her 71-year-old mother.
"She also forged her mothers information on the loans because she had to have a co-signer," said Doss. Last November she confessed and turned herself in. She's in the St. Charles County Jail on a $50,000 cash only bond.
Cynthia Tiemann is scheduled to appear in St. Charles County court on Monday April, 6th to face 7 counts of forgery.
