SALT LAKE CITY — A South Jordan human rights advocate accused of faking a cancer diagnosis has pleaded guilty to wrongful appropriation, a class A misdemeanor, admitting to obtaining unauthorized control of another's property.
She was arrested in February 2022. An arrest report noted that Berthmann has been "a habitual liar throughout the years, claiming Coco's mother was sending people to the United States to kill her, she had had a stage 4 cancer which was miraculously cured, and she had been raped on many occasions." She also allegedly claimed she had initially been treated at the Huntsman Cancer Institute and was now seeking alternative treatment with specialists in Alaska and Chicago.
This sounds...familiar. 🙄