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Sandy Hook: Woman Charged Over Online 'Scam'

Sandy Hook: Woman Charged Over Online 'Scam'

A woman has been charged with fraud for posing as the aunt of a Connecticut school shooting victim and soliciting donations, prosecutors said.

Nouel Alba, from the Bronx, was indicted on identity theft and fraud charges in New York City.

Prosecutors say she pretended to be the aunt of six-year-old Sandy Hook Elementary victim Noah Pozner.

She was accused of using her Facebook account, telephone calls and text messages to seek donations for what she called a "funeral fund".

Alba was first arrested in December on charges she lied to federal officials about the case.

In text messages with a donor, Alba allegedly said she hugged President Barack Obama during his visit to Newtown, Connecticut, and said she was afraid to see her nephew in a casket.

She wrote "11 gun shot in his little body", according to a complaint.

Twenty children and six women were killed on December 14 when gunman Adam Lanza opened fire at the school before killing himself.

It is the second-worst mass shooting by a single attacker in US history, after the Virginia Tech massacre that left 32 people dead in 2007.