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Homeless Teen Says Dispute Over $184,000 in GoFundMe Donations Has Been Resolved
It looks as if Fred Barley, the homeless college student who sparked media attention after biking six hours just to register for classes, will be getting the $184,000 donated to him through GoFundMe. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Barley and Casey Blaney, the Barnesville, Ga., mom who started the wildly successful GoFundMe, have come to…
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GoFundMe Freezes $184,000 of Funds Donated to Homeless Teen After Inquiry Into Story
The Georgia woman who started a highly successful GoFundMe campaign on behalf of Fred Barley, a 19-year-old whose story went viral after he biked six hours just to register for classes at a Georgia college, is now apparently questioning the young man’s story, leading to the $184,000 raised being frozen, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. “Unfortunately,…
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Outpouring of Kindness for Homeless Teen Who Biked 6 Hours to Get to College and Slept in Tent
Fred Barley is nothing if not persistent. Officers found the 19-year-old sleeping in a tent outside Georgia’s Gordon State College over the weekend and listened to his amazing story about why he was doing something that could have been considered trespassing, WSB-TV reports. Barley is homeless. He told officers that he had ridden his little…
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