This is bound to be long, sorry. Am regular but N/C for this.
6 months ago I went back to college to get my GCSE's. I met a girl there doing another course (I forget which) and we became friends quickly, I thought she was brilliant although it was clear she had some problems (home problems, and perhaps ADHD). She had 2 kids, a boy and a girl, who were living with their dad and was always showing me pictures of them. She was 18 so had had them very young.
It came up that she had nowhere to stay, her nan that she'd always lived with had died, and with her dad having died a few years back, and her mum not on the scene she had no family. I let her live with me, fed her, paid for everything for her as she had no money either. I tried to help her get on some kind of benefits, but we were unable to as she told me she has no birth certificate or NI number.
A couple months went by, we were having a good time although the financial strain on me was quite hard. I'd drop her to various places so she could go and see her kids, buy her what she needed etc. She moved her clothes and various but minimal belongings into my house.
She came home in tears one day, telling me her childrens father had got into a brawl, her little girl had got in the way and had a serious blow to the head. She was absolutely hysterical, i was heartbroken and sat up all night with her, the next day things worsened and she told me the girl passed away. I dropped her to a house she told me was the fathers house, and over the next few weeks missed college and work to support her. Gave her money for dresses for her and her daughter for the funeral and was generally an emotional mess myself.
But then, this happened: I received a message on facebook telling me this girl was not who I thought she was. Her name was actually different, she'd lied to them before about a girl being very ill, she didn't even have children and lived at home with her family with a link to her real facebook. I did some facebook snooping, horrified, and then looked through her stuff and found her birth certificate with her real name on (not the one she used with me).
When she came in I confronted her, and she just grabbed her stuff and ran out. Literally. That was it.
This was 2 months ago now, and I just have no clue where to go from here. I feel so violated. I can't understand why it happened, money? I didn't give her anything hefty, but if she's done it to other people maybe she does get a lot? Do I contact police? A hospital? Do I contact her? Her family through facebook? I'm still eaten up about it and feel SO SO stupid.