Extreme Makeover - Home Edition: duped by family’s sick claim

Ty Pennington and crew philanthropic ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" has been giving to the families of the house of their dreams through extensive renovations and reconstructions seven days since the series premiered in 2004. Brokers uplifting reality show in the most difficult of luck that sometimes seems too sad to be true. And in some cases as a result, they are: According to a recent study in Oregon, it seems that the would-be benefactors have been deceived by a family falsely claiming two children very sick.
"Extreme Makeover" recipients Cerda Chuck and Terri are the parents of Molly and Maggie, 10 and 8 respectively. Terri, in his appeal to the show, said he is suffering from combined immunodeficiency, as well as their daughters, who had to wear masks to protect against toxins circulating through the air from his summary, the mold-filled home in Las Vegas. You can see a video of Terri and the two girls posted by the Immune Deficiency Foundation above.
That was before "Extreme Makeover" in March 2009 transformed his home into "a new opulent house systems including high-quality air filtration, an elevator, solar-heated pool, gourmet kitchen and a fireplace from floor to ceiling stone, "as The Oregonian's Steve Mays writes. But it is the Pigs "could not afford the rising cost of operating the larger house. In the fall of 2009, the house was for sale and the family moved to Oregon."
That's when the real trouble started. Mays reports:
Several doctors and a hospital social worker began to question the insistence of her daughters Teresa Cerda had chronic health problems when tests and examinations indicated otherwise. In January, Dr. Thomas Valvano, a pediatrician at OHSU Doernbecher Children's Hospital who specializes in child abuse and neglect, according to the bristles to the state child welfare authorities, and in February, the state took temporary custody of the two girls.
The case continued in the Circuit Court of Clackamas County told a story very different from the one presented on television.
Six doctors testified that Molly, 10, and Maggie, 8, did not live in constant medical danger, as Terri Cerda said.

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