Police: Teen Used 'Fake a Baby' Website to Con Boyfriend

A Wyandotte teen is under investigation for allegedly faking a pregnancy, likely with items purchased through the website FakeABaby.com, after her parents doubted her story that she was pregnant with triplets.

Richard Weise, a detective with the Wyandotte Police Department, told Patch that an open investigation is under way, but declined to release specifics.

“We’re trying to determine if anything criminal happened,” he said.

The girl’s parents contacted police on Aug. 27 after parts of her story began to unravel and she refused to seek medical confirmation of the pregnancy.

The investigation doesn’t center on the website, though Weise said it’s an oddity in his experience.

“Throughout my career, I’ve seen a lot of websites that are pretty mind-boggling,” the detective said. “Of course, it’s billed as a novelty and for fun purposes.

“People have a constitutional right to free speech, and I’m sure they’ve had their lawyers look at it,” he said.

She allegedly used fake sonogram images purchased from FakeABaby.com to trick her 16-year-old boyfriend and his family into believing she was pregnant with triplets, Weise said.

Weise said the girl is not pregnant at the time.

“Whether she was pregnant or not, I’m still working on that,” he said.

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Weise said the teen was showered with gifts from family and friends. The parents of the teen and her boyfriend plan to return them, pay for them or donate them to a charity, he said.

“There were no allegations of money being taken” he said. “At this point, it appears most items given to this young lady were donated through a baby shower that involved family members.”

FakeABaby.com was at the center of a California felony domestic abuse case in 2013.

Charges against a corrections officer were dismissed after his girlfriend’s alleged lies began to unravel. Though there was enough evidence to proceed to trial in that case, authorities determined the complainant wasn’t a credible witness because she had used FakeABaby.com to obtain fake ultrasound images, according to news reports.

The website also got a mention on NPR’s “Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!” program, according to The Washington Post. Guests on the program were quizzed about the veracity of a story about Chinese women who wore fake bellies to get seats on crowded Beijing subways. Their ruse fell apart when one of the fake stomachs fell to the ground in front of passengers, according to the report.