Chicago City Wire

GoFundMe has not responded to requests for comment from Chicago City Wire regarding a user who is trying to raise $350,000 for illegal activity she has openly admitted to on its fundraising platform.  

Alleged looter Taeshia Rochon has opened a GoFundMe page asking for $350,000 in donations for her legal defense. Rochon, 22, was arrested after being caught streaming her looting activity on Facebook Live.

“Without limiting the foregoing, you agree: not to use the Services to raise funds or establish or contribute to any Campaign with the implicit or explicit purpose of or involving: the violation of any laws," GoFundMe’s Terms of Service on prohibited conduct state.

Taeshia Rochon's mug shot.

Yet California-based GoFundMe remains silent on Rochon’s posting which is still up.

The GoFundMe posting includes photos showing a scantily clad young woman purported to be Rochon. 

“I was charged with two counts of burglary and two counts of looting,” Rochon said in the post. “I need help I am too pretty to be in jail if I can’t pay my fine that’s where I would be. Why u think I went looting, cause (I don’t) have shit.”

Rochon was charged with four felonies altogether. She was given a $4,000 D Bond. She will have to post $400 to be released prior to the trial and will be subject to electronic monitoring if she posts the bond. Rochon has no previous criminal record.

The looting occurred August 10th and Rochon’s Facebook Live video was anonymously reported to the Looting Task Force who subsequently tracked her down. The outbreak of looting occurred in and around Chicago.

The GoFundMe account posting was created under the name TMika Neal. Neal was arrested in 2018 for attempted forgery of a check for being in possession of a check which had been altered without the knowledge or consent of the account holder.