SAN MATEO, Calif. — A sex romp in a public park has helped prosecutors convict a California woman of faking an ankle injury to collect workers’ compensation payments.
For six months Modupe Adunni Martin, 28, went about her daily routine as best she could—on crutches, claiming an ankle injury prevented her from working and walking unassisted. Then one day after an otherwise uneventful doctor’s appointment, Martin threw caution into the wind and slipped on high heels to meet her boyfriend at a public park.
Unbeknownst to her, investigators were watching...and waiting. That’s because the Hayward, Calif. woman’s behavior raised suspicion long before the revealing rendezvous , which would eventually lead to ten counts of insurance fraud and her arrest.
Her blatantly inconsistent behavior soon piqued the interest of the county's insurance fraud unit, which began an investigation employing hidden cameras near the doctor’s office. Wagstaffe’s office observed Martin schlepping to the doctor’s office with crutches, only to exit without them.
San Mateo County prosecutors say 29-year-old Modupe Adunni Martin reported the injury while working as a Sequoia Union High School District janitor in 2009.
Martin claimed she couldn’t walk and needed crutches.
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe says investigators caught Martin on videotape throwing her crutches into a car and running in high heels at a public park.
She then allegedly performed a sex act at the park on a boyfriend that doctors concluded she couldn’t have done with an injured ankle .
Martin pleaded no contest to fraud and was sentenced on Thursday to nine months in jail. She was also ordered to pay more than $79,000 in restitution.
A call to her attorney, Emily Andrews, on Friday was not immediately returned.
