An Ohio woman who faked her daughter’s leukaemia to rake in thousands in donations said she concocted the scheme to keep her husband from leaving.

AN Ohio woman tricked her seven-year-old daughter and the local community into thinking the girl had cancer so she could raise money — even going so far as to shave the girl’s head and put her in counselling to prepare to die.

Police say an Ohio woman tricked her seven-year-old daughter and the local community into thinking the girl had cancer so she could raise money.