LEXINGTON, Ky. (FOX 56) — A former Lexington mortician’s assistant has admitted to stealing the identities of deceased children in a scheme to defraud a central Kentucky charity that supports families who are grieving their children.
Court records show that 26-year-old Ronald Jerome Woolfolk Jr. was indicted in April 2025 on five counts of wire fraud and seven counts of aggravated identity theft charges after allegedly using his position at a Fayette County funeral home to obtain over $11,000 using fictitious or stolen identities of deceased children from 2022 to 2023.
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The charity he admitted to targeting was identified in documents only as “Charity 1,” which is a 501(c) (3) organization in Georgetown that covers funeral, cremation, and cemetery costs for children who die unexpectedly. The indictment states that Woolfork submitted around 23 requests for funding using his funeral home email address.
Prosecutors said that seven of the identities were stolen and the rest were made up. Many of the claims included the child’s name, date of death, and even their parents’ information…