Malcolm X's youngest daughter has been sentenced to five years probation for swindling an elderly widow out of $55,000 by running up charges on her credit card

Malikah Shabazz, 46, has been ordered to pay back the money she stole or risk being thrown into prison for seven years. Shabazz pleaded guilty to first-degree identity theft. Queens District Attorney Richard Brown accused Shabazz of preying upon the trusting nature of Khaula Bakr, a family friend and widow of one of the slain black leader's bodyguards. Prosecutors say that she opened credit card accounts in Bakr's name. Bakr, 70, discovered the theft when she got a letter from her bank demanding nearly $30,000 in payments for an overdue account. Shabazz was arrested after social service workers went to her rural North Carolina home to investigate a complaint that her 13-year-old daughter wasn't attending school.