Sara now in her comments saying she might believe disabled people in the future when we provide enough "evidence" for her and generally being a condescending bleep. What more evidence does she want? Carrie doesn't exist. You can't post proof of something that does not exist. Thick as duck.
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not-a-medical-Dr Jessica Taylor monetising the Russell Brand and David Walliams news is disgusting. She forced her vulnerable employees to sign an NDA to stop them whistle blowing. She threatened survivors of sexual abuse to sue them for “every single one of their assets” if they spoke up. She is one of the most dangerous people in the VAWG sector and does so much harm to women and girls.
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Her attitude stinks. I can’t stand the woman.
She has me blocked on my main and I don’t even know why! I don’t think I’ve ever even interacted with her
I must have liked a dodgy comment or something.
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Sara is an epic twit. Nothing more than a clout chaser and a turncoat. She only got involved in defending Carrie/Samantha when she saw opportunity to gain followers and nothing more. Her 'apology' was nothing more than a narcissistic rambling and tried to turn it around that she was taken in. bull on the principle that she will always believe disabled people. SHE WASNT bleeping DISABLED YOU twit!Sara can still do one lmao. "I won't apologise for believing disabled people" - uhhh disabled people were telling you she was lying in order to exploit us. duck right off and stop pretending you give a tit about us
Sara has her own thread on here if anyone’s interested
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Tiktoker who likes to position herself as some sort of amateur employment law expert and general know it all. She has been discussed quite a bit on various other tiktokers threads recently as she has decided to involve herself in the thisworldcanbeaccessible drama so I figured we may as well...
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Just a wee update for anyone interested, I’ve heard there’s another article coming possibly this weekend in an Irish newspaper. Should be interesting if it happens!
I tell you what, this screams Netflix documentary! What a bleeping rabbit run that was 
Wonder where she is now.
Wonder where she is now.
I agree about Netflix. (Ironic if it does happen, given one of her lies was that she’d sold a script to Netflix).
I get the impression there is much more to come on this.
I get the impression there is much more to come on this.
What’s astonishing to me is how public she’s been with so much of it. Like was it an attempt to hide in plain sight or was it arrogance? Or was it that she got away with winning the FT thing and thought oooh I can push this further
It’s probably none of those. I think it’s mental illness. No mentally sound person would reasonably believe they could get away with it.
I don’t think you are trying to excuse her actions as mental illness but can we just be clear that this is more than mental illness or mental health problems. This woman is calculated in her search for victims, ensures they are vulnerable and in most cases befriends them and hits them at their lowest.
These are the actions of somebody who is knowingly causing harm. Undoubtedly there’s some trauma and mental health issues in there but there is absolutely more to her actions than that. I don’t know whether there’s a personality disorder in there, it seems possible but to repeatedly hurt people over the course of 10+ years in the way she has requires more than mental health issues and personality disorders, in my opinion anyway.
I’m not targeting you directly but lots of people on tiktok are going down the “she needs mental health help” route, which she clearly does, but it won’t heal her from being a crappy person at her core.
These are the actions of somebody who is knowingly causing harm. Undoubtedly there’s some trauma and mental health issues in there but there is absolutely more to her actions than that. I don’t know whether there’s a personality disorder in there, it seems possible but to repeatedly hurt people over the course of 10+ years in the way she has requires more than mental health issues and personality disorders, in my opinion anyway.
I’m not targeting you directly but lots of people on tiktok are going down the “she needs mental health help” route, which she clearly does, but it won’t heal her from being a crappy person at her core.
People use mental health as a get out of jail free card
Sorry, not trying to excuse everything she has done because of bad mental health. I know plenty of people with very poor mental health conditions who do not act like this. But it could be a very serious condition. Nobody knows much about her medical history but it feels to me that she’s living in a fantasy land with multiple personalities. Most grifters do it for money, but it doesn’t appear that was her motivation. She speaks of her ‘sister’ and it sounds like a multiple personality disorder that she has no control over.
I swear my opinion about her changes more often than I change my undies!
From the Irish independent:
The serial fraudster, a bogus therapist and the trip to Lapland for vulnerable children that was never going to happen
British woman had been deceiving people across the country for years under various aliases, exploiting families for financial gain
Samantha Cookes has been deceiving people for years and has adopted a number of different aliases
Samantha Cookes has been deceiving people for years and has adopted a number of different aliases
Ellen Coyne
December 31 2022 02:30 AM
A serial fraudster collected the passport details of vulnerable and disabled Irish children under the guise of preparing them for a bogus trip to Lapland.
Samantha Cookes has been deceiving people across the country for at least eight years, and got access to Irish children while posing as an additional needs therapist and au pair.
She has previously been convicted of fraud after posing as a surrogate mother for a British couple.
One Dublin mother has revealed how she was persuaded to sign over her consent for Cookes to take her eight-year-old daughter out of the country.
Earlier this month, VICE News reported that Cookes was Carrie Jade Williams. She said she was a woman with a terminal illness who was being sued for “being disabled” by her Airbnb guests.
But the 34-year-old British woman has adopted a number of different aliases over the years.
In 2016, Cookes was living in Glenageary, south Dublin, and posing as an occupational therapist called Lucy Fitzwilliams.
Lynn McDonald, a mother living near Tallaght, was one of a number of women who was introduced to Cookes and believed her to be an occupational therapist.
“She’s dangerous. Financially, but also emotionally. She leaves a trail of destruction wherever she goes. And nobody is doing anything about it,” Ms McDonald said.
Ms McDonald – who has two children, Ellie, who was eight at the time, and Daisy, who was three and has a life-limiting condition called Rett syndrome – said: “She’s so clever, she will take someone’s story and extract what she needs, and then use it to move forward
with them.
“She took our vulnerabilities, and exploited them.”
She offered to look after Daisy, Ms McDonald’s very ill daughter.
“She risked my child,” Ms McDonald said, expressing relief that she never agreed to that offer.
“But I did take her up on the offer of art therapy for my oldest, Ellie. That still bothers me.”
Ellie was one of a number of local children who believed they were going to Lapland.
Cookes conned parents into believing she was a millionaire who was using her wealth to take a number of Irish families on the trip of a lifetime at a dramatically reduced rate.
Emails between Ms McDonald and “Lucy” discuss a detailed itinerary including husky parks, reindeer farms, sled rides and a visit to Santa.
In her emails to families, Cookes said that she and her pastor “fiancé” did not yet “have charity status” for their venture. “So I cannot, (and as a Christian will not) take monetary funding. The prices we are asking for the trips are the prices we are paying,” Cookes wrote, claiming she would take donations for a refuge that she was running instead.
Daisy was very ill at the time and was in and out of hospital. Ms McDonald was worried that if she was in hospital with Daisy when the trip came around, Ellie would not be able to go.
“‘Lucy’ had a wonderful solution,” Ms McDonald said. “‘Lucy’ was going to take hold of Ellie’s passport. And ‘Lucy’ asked for my signature on these forms she had brought up. So I would basically be giving her my consent to bring Ellie abroad.
“Thankfully, it all came out before we got to that stage. But you can imagine how this has affected me so much.”
By the August bank holiday of 2016, “Lucy” had taken in so many families with the Lapland scam that she was due to be given a cheque for deposits worth €20,000. As well as the deposits, she wanted copies of everyone’s passports and their passport numbers.
But just before what would have been a major windfall for the fraudster, Cookes collapsed in a bookshop in Dún Laoghaire and was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital.
While the collapse may have been genuine, around this time a number of women were becoming suspicious of “Lucy” and whether she was all that she claimed to be. Shortly after that she fled.
Several women reported Cookes to their local gardaí.
“When it all came out, the police were involved,” Ms McDonald said.
The family had serious anxiety about the fact they invited this stranger into their lives. They took measures to increase the security on their house, which was in an isolated area.
“I was terrified,” Ms McDonald said. “Terrified.” She said that even six years on, the incident has destroyed her trust in people.
A Garda spokesperson said that there were a “number” of prosecutions before the courts in 2019 relating to this individual.
“Court proceedings are a matter for the Courts Service of Ireland. An Garda Síochána does not comment on or verify details on persons of interest,” they said.
Previously, Cookes was handed a 14-week suspended sentence at the district court in Fermoy in 2019 after posing as a clinical child psychologist and persuading a family to pay her more than €800 for a report, with a view to getting their daughter a special needs assistant.
The court heard at the time that Cookes also stole a combined total of €1,400 from four different people in 2016.
In 2011, Cookes was convicted of defrauding a British couple of their savings by posing as a surrogate. She received a suspended sentence.
During the case, it was claimed that Cookes was suffering from psychiatric problems having lost a baby to cot death in 2008.
Earlier this year, Cookes was in Kenmare under the alias Carrie Jade Williams or Jade Williams.
This is the last known alias that Cookes used, and the one under which things would finally unravel for her.
She used the alias to build a national and international profile as a writer and disability advocate.
According to “Carrie”, she had received a devastating diagnosis of Huntington’s disease about three years ago. She has been interviewed about her disability and her activism by local, national and international media.
She claimed that after her diagnosis, she lost her voice and had to speak with the assistance of an eye-gaze board. She then claimed that she had been able to recover her speech, while also developing her own assistive technology. She has made contradictory claims about this technology.
She presented herself as a disability rights activist, published novelist and Netflix-commissioned screenwriter. She has won an Irish writing residency, and a prestigious essay competition in the Financial Times. She was stripped of her prize after evidence began circulating online that she was a fraudster.
Cookes has dragged two former landlords through the Residential Tenancies Board dispute process, despite the fact she did so under a false name.
Cookes also started renting out an apartment in Kenmare last March under the alias Carrie Jade Williams. “I thought I had met a nun,” said Tim Hourigan, her landlord. “I thought she was the best tenant, I thought I was made.”
Mr Hourigan recently learned that his property on Airbnb was being sub-let, under the name Jade Williams. Cookes is now taking Mr Hourigan through a dispute resolution process with the Residential Tenancies Board, under a fake name.
Cookes brought another former Kerry landlord through the same process, also under a fake name. The RTB said it does not comment on individual cases.
Cookes was a running a TikTok account, where she posed as disability advocate “Carrie” and spoke about her terminal illness.
Last summer, she posted a video where she claimed she was being sued for a “life-changing amount of money” by guests who had stayed at her Airbnb in Kenmare.
As the Airbnb story continued to spread, some people from “Carrie’s” past recognised her as Cookes.
A WhatsApp group has now been set up of about 16 people who have all been victims of Cookes’s deceptions. The majority of them are based in Ireland.
The group is determined to raise Cookes’s profile, to avoid the same thing happening to anyone else.
“Nothing will ever compensate for the damage that she did,” Ms McDonald said. “Six years later, it’s still affecting me. I’m still nervous, keeping an extra eye around.”
After it was claimed online that Cookes and Williams were the same person, a statement emerged in Williams’s name rejecting the claims. It claimed that Cookes was her sister. It made vague references to her “sister” having mental health problems, and made threats to sue for defamation.
The Irish Independent got in touch with Cookes and put a number of questions to her about the claims she had made as Carrie Jade Williams. Cookes claimed multiple times that her solicitor would be in contact with the paper. No correspondence arrived.
Ms Williams was also asked a number of times to provide contact information for her solicitor, but declined to do so.
Cookes did not respond to queries about her activities as Lucy Fitzwilliams, including working as an au pair and a therapist for children with additional needs.
The serial fraudster, a bogus therapist and the trip to Lapland for vulnerable children that was never going to happen
British woman had been deceiving people across the country for years under various aliases, exploiting families for financial gain
Samantha Cookes has been deceiving people for years and has adopted a number of different aliases
Samantha Cookes has been deceiving people for years and has adopted a number of different aliases
Ellen Coyne
December 31 2022 02:30 AM
A serial fraudster collected the passport details of vulnerable and disabled Irish children under the guise of preparing them for a bogus trip to Lapland.
Samantha Cookes has been deceiving people across the country for at least eight years, and got access to Irish children while posing as an additional needs therapist and au pair.
She has previously been convicted of fraud after posing as a surrogate mother for a British couple.
One Dublin mother has revealed how she was persuaded to sign over her consent for Cookes to take her eight-year-old daughter out of the country.
Earlier this month, VICE News reported that Cookes was Carrie Jade Williams. She said she was a woman with a terminal illness who was being sued for “being disabled” by her Airbnb guests.
But the 34-year-old British woman has adopted a number of different aliases over the years.
In 2016, Cookes was living in Glenageary, south Dublin, and posing as an occupational therapist called Lucy Fitzwilliams.
Lynn McDonald, a mother living near Tallaght, was one of a number of women who was introduced to Cookes and believed her to be an occupational therapist.
“She’s dangerous. Financially, but also emotionally. She leaves a trail of destruction wherever she goes. And nobody is doing anything about it,” Ms McDonald said.
Ms McDonald – who has two children, Ellie, who was eight at the time, and Daisy, who was three and has a life-limiting condition called Rett syndrome – said: “She’s so clever, she will take someone’s story and extract what she needs, and then use it to move forward
with them.
“She took our vulnerabilities, and exploited them.”
She offered to look after Daisy, Ms McDonald’s very ill daughter.
“She risked my child,” Ms McDonald said, expressing relief that she never agreed to that offer.
“But I did take her up on the offer of art therapy for my oldest, Ellie. That still bothers me.”
Ellie was one of a number of local children who believed they were going to Lapland.
Cookes conned parents into believing she was a millionaire who was using her wealth to take a number of Irish families on the trip of a lifetime at a dramatically reduced rate.
Emails between Ms McDonald and “Lucy” discuss a detailed itinerary including husky parks, reindeer farms, sled rides and a visit to Santa.
In her emails to families, Cookes said that she and her pastor “fiancé” did not yet “have charity status” for their venture. “So I cannot, (and as a Christian will not) take monetary funding. The prices we are asking for the trips are the prices we are paying,” Cookes wrote, claiming she would take donations for a refuge that she was running instead.
Daisy was very ill at the time and was in and out of hospital. Ms McDonald was worried that if she was in hospital with Daisy when the trip came around, Ellie would not be able to go.
“‘Lucy’ had a wonderful solution,” Ms McDonald said. “‘Lucy’ was going to take hold of Ellie’s passport. And ‘Lucy’ asked for my signature on these forms she had brought up. So I would basically be giving her my consent to bring Ellie abroad.
“Thankfully, it all came out before we got to that stage. But you can imagine how this has affected me so much.”
By the August bank holiday of 2016, “Lucy” had taken in so many families with the Lapland scam that she was due to be given a cheque for deposits worth €20,000. As well as the deposits, she wanted copies of everyone’s passports and their passport numbers.
But just before what would have been a major windfall for the fraudster, Cookes collapsed in a bookshop in Dún Laoghaire and was taken to St Vincent’s Hospital.
While the collapse may have been genuine, around this time a number of women were becoming suspicious of “Lucy” and whether she was all that she claimed to be. Shortly after that she fled.
Several women reported Cookes to their local gardaí.
“When it all came out, the police were involved,” Ms McDonald said.
The family had serious anxiety about the fact they invited this stranger into their lives. They took measures to increase the security on their house, which was in an isolated area.
“I was terrified,” Ms McDonald said. “Terrified.” She said that even six years on, the incident has destroyed her trust in people.
A Garda spokesperson said that there were a “number” of prosecutions before the courts in 2019 relating to this individual.
“Court proceedings are a matter for the Courts Service of Ireland. An Garda Síochána does not comment on or verify details on persons of interest,” they said.
Previously, Cookes was handed a 14-week suspended sentence at the district court in Fermoy in 2019 after posing as a clinical child psychologist and persuading a family to pay her more than €800 for a report, with a view to getting their daughter a special needs assistant.
The court heard at the time that Cookes also stole a combined total of €1,400 from four different people in 2016.
In 2011, Cookes was convicted of defrauding a British couple of their savings by posing as a surrogate. She received a suspended sentence.
During the case, it was claimed that Cookes was suffering from psychiatric problems having lost a baby to cot death in 2008.
Earlier this year, Cookes was in Kenmare under the alias Carrie Jade Williams or Jade Williams.
This is the last known alias that Cookes used, and the one under which things would finally unravel for her.
She used the alias to build a national and international profile as a writer and disability advocate.
According to “Carrie”, she had received a devastating diagnosis of Huntington’s disease about three years ago. She has been interviewed about her disability and her activism by local, national and international media.
She claimed that after her diagnosis, she lost her voice and had to speak with the assistance of an eye-gaze board. She then claimed that she had been able to recover her speech, while also developing her own assistive technology. She has made contradictory claims about this technology.
She presented herself as a disability rights activist, published novelist and Netflix-commissioned screenwriter. She has won an Irish writing residency, and a prestigious essay competition in the Financial Times. She was stripped of her prize after evidence began circulating online that she was a fraudster.
Cookes has dragged two former landlords through the Residential Tenancies Board dispute process, despite the fact she did so under a false name.
Cookes also started renting out an apartment in Kenmare last March under the alias Carrie Jade Williams. “I thought I had met a nun,” said Tim Hourigan, her landlord. “I thought she was the best tenant, I thought I was made.”
Mr Hourigan recently learned that his property on Airbnb was being sub-let, under the name Jade Williams. Cookes is now taking Mr Hourigan through a dispute resolution process with the Residential Tenancies Board, under a fake name.
Cookes brought another former Kerry landlord through the same process, also under a fake name. The RTB said it does not comment on individual cases.
Cookes was a running a TikTok account, where she posed as disability advocate “Carrie” and spoke about her terminal illness.
Last summer, she posted a video where she claimed she was being sued for a “life-changing amount of money” by guests who had stayed at her Airbnb in Kenmare.
As the Airbnb story continued to spread, some people from “Carrie’s” past recognised her as Cookes.
A WhatsApp group has now been set up of about 16 people who have all been victims of Cookes’s deceptions. The majority of them are based in Ireland.
The group is determined to raise Cookes’s profile, to avoid the same thing happening to anyone else.
“Nothing will ever compensate for the damage that she did,” Ms McDonald said. “Six years later, it’s still affecting me. I’m still nervous, keeping an extra eye around.”
After it was claimed online that Cookes and Williams were the same person, a statement emerged in Williams’s name rejecting the claims. It claimed that Cookes was her sister. It made vague references to her “sister” having mental health problems, and made threats to sue for defamation.
The Irish Independent got in touch with Cookes and put a number of questions to her about the claims she had made as Carrie Jade Williams. Cookes claimed multiple times that her solicitor would be in contact with the paper. No correspondence arrived.
Ms Williams was also asked a number of times to provide contact information for her solicitor, but declined to do so.
Cookes did not respond to queries about her activities as Lucy Fitzwilliams, including working as an au pair and a therapist for children with additional needs.
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Wow thanks for that a lot more has come out, I wouldn’t be surprised if there are so many more victims that just don’t have the confidence to report it.
I wonder what her current situation is?
I wonder what her current situation is?
This just keeps getting crazier. It also gets harder to defend her although Im sure some people will!
Unsure if this will come up in a crazy order, but there’s another article in the Irish independent today
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I’ve read this entire thread over the last couple of days without knowing a single thing that happened (I don’t even have TikTok!) and just finished. Bloody hell, what a wild ride!
How on earth has this woman got away with so much for so long? And what’s being done about it now - because all I seem to be getting from these articles is that she’s disappeared. So what’s her next scam and who will be her next victims?
Losing her baby to SIDS is very tragic but it’s absolutely despicable how she has targeted families of disabled children. I think the fact she disappears when people start asking questions that might expose her shows she knows what she’s doing is wrong. The suspended sentence in 2019 was not a deterrent, she needs locking up whether that’s hospital or prison.
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How on earth has this woman got away with so much for so long? And what’s being done about it now - because all I seem to be getting from these articles is that she’s disappeared. So what’s her next scam and who will be her next victims?
Losing her baby to SIDS is very tragic but it’s absolutely despicable how she has targeted families of disabled children. I think the fact she disappears when people start asking questions that might expose her shows she knows what she’s doing is wrong. The suspended sentence in 2019 was not a deterrent, she needs locking up whether that’s hospital or prison.
If anyone wants to read the article online it’s been archived to get past the paywall.
The strange tale of Carrie Jade Williams. The internationally acclaim…
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Saw this on the Daisy’s Days Facebook page, one of the victims of Samantha’s Lapland scam.
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