A former Snoqualmie Tribe social worker was sentenced to five months in prison for stealing benefits from an autistic child.
Akeatha Akintola, a 48-year-old woman who lived in Bellevue, pleaded guilty Wednesday to theft of public funds for the $17,638 she stole from the child, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office.
Judge S. Kate Vaughan called the crime “an ethical breach beyond imagining” at the sentencing hearing…