The former financial secretary of a Foley church pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling more than $200,000.
Sharon Collins worked for First Baptist Church from May 2007 until July 2019. During most of that time, she admitted in a written plea agreement, she fraudulently used church credit cards issued in her name and the names of other employees to steal $209,745. For years, she admitted, she used church credit cards to make personal expenses, from satellite TV to plane trips to a college degree.
“I imagine, for you, this is embarrassing,” he told the defendant, later adding, “Even if you find this embarrassing, it’s not the worst thing in the world someone has ever done, and you can live this down.” Collins initially worked as secretary of First Baptist Church of Foley and became financial secretary in 2008. In that role, according to the plea document, she wrote checks and managed the accounting system.
The church then turned the matter over to the Baldwin County Sheriff’s Office and, ultimately, the FBI. Court records characterize the church’s financial situation after the embezzlement as dire. The plea document states that the church had to hire a computer service company to gain access to the defendant’s work computer since she would not divulge her password. First Baptist Church of Foley was “financially upside down” and had to cut the church budget by 10 percent, according to the plea document.
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