Arkansas pregnancy center's ex-exec sentenced for theft of funds

FORT SMITH -- The former director of a pregnancy support center has been ordered in Sebastian County Circuit Court to pay $53,000 in restitution for money she admitted stealing from the center over a 10-month period.

Daphne Haas, 42, pleaded guilty last week to one count of theft. Court records showed that she was given a 10-year suspended sentence and was ordered to pay $53,000 in restitution, with $50,000 of it to be paid last Wednesday.

The remaining $3,000 would be paid over time along with a $2,500 fine and $150 in court costs, court records showed.

An affidavit for an arrest warrant issued in May said Haas was appointed director of the Heart to Heart Pregnancy Center at 417 S. 16th St. in Fort Smith in 2015.

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