Grandmother accused of wiping out girl’s $50,000 inheritance

Milwaukee - Probate courts generate plenty of stories about bad guardians, people appointed by a court to look after a ward’s well-being or finances when they are too young or otherwise unable to take care of themselves. Then there’s Betty J. Coleman.

Prosecutors say she lied about her criminal past to be named guardian of her granddaughter’s suddenly flush estate. The girl, under 14 at the time, had been left $50,000 when Coleman’s ex-husband died.

Within five months, according to civil and criminal charges, Coleman had spent all the money, and not for the girl’s best interests. It went for alcohol, cigarettes, wigs, back rent and dozens of cash withdrawals.

Coleman, 56, even spent some of the money on her current husband — who is serving a prison sentence for sexually assaulting the same girl years earlier. More

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