Allison started doing pageants because she came from a single-parent home and virtually had no money. Her goal was just to get scholarships to help pay for schooling. She is a typical West Virginia average person. But she has been taken advantage of.

Lavinia Mann Cummings

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These Web sites allege that the woman in the video is Miss West Virginia, but it's not. Some sites even had her pageant picture next to the video.

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She is handling it really well, despite everything going on, and it's been so hard on her and her family. She never believed something like this could happen. And if it could happen to her, it could really happen to anyone.

— Lavinia Mann Cummings

She had such a good year. It's a shame she had to come back to this.

— Lavinia Mann Cummings

She is so hurt and outraged. Her whole life has been turned upside down because of this. Law school is hard enough, but local and regional newspapers and radio stations have demoralized her.

— Lavinia Mann Cummings

The city auctions always lost money. We'd get a small turnout of people bidding, and we had to hire auctioneers and pay city employees to handle the goods.