State of West Virginia v. Rebecca F.

Justice KETCHUM:

Petitioner Rebecca F. 1 (“defendant”) appeals the February 4, 2013, order of the Circuit Court of Berkeley County sentencing her to an effective five-year prison term and ordering her to pay restitution following her guilty plea to eight counts of identity theft. The defendant was ordered to pay restitution to six financial institutions and to the person whose identity she stole — her daughter. The defendant opened a number of fraudulent accounts in her daughter’s name beginning when her daughter was fourteen years old. 2 At the time of sentencing, the defendant’s daughter had…