Transcript for Superintendent charged after lying to get care for a sick student
Next tonight here, we have reported on a skyrocketing cost of health care in this country. Tonight, a school superintendent in Indiana has been charged after trying to get a sick student who had been missing school medical care using her insurance. She was not insured. Here is ABC’s linsey Davis. Reporter: The superintendent of schools in Elwood, Indiana says she has learned her lesson after being charged with insurance fraud. I’m not saying I was right. I’m really sorry. I was scared for him. Reporter: According to police, Casey Smitherman went to the home of a sick student and took him to a medical center where she used a false name, claiming he was her son. She then admits to driving him to a pharmacy, where she had a prescription filled for an antibiotic because the student doesn’t have insurance. I have a student I’ve been helping, and he was sick, and I believed it was strep throat. Reporter: She says she’s helped the boy before even buying clothes for him. But when the student reportedly told a teacher, who told the school nurse, Smitherman turned herself in to police. I would love to go back to that moment and redo it. I’m kicking myself, ‘why didn’t I do this, why didn’t I do this?’ Reporter: She has areachedage agreement can the county prosecutor and the fraud charges will get dropped. She is calling it a mistake with good intentions and the school board is standing by her. The problem with health care
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