Women Shamed Outside Court for Stealing from Kid

Two adult women stood outside a Pennsylvania courthouse for four and a half hours with giant signs: “I stole from a nine-year-old on her birthday! Don’t steal or this could happen to you!”

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Teenage CSI Fan Nabs Locker Thief

For a high school student, $150 is a lot of money.  Whether earned at a job sandwiched between classes and homework, stored up after multiple birthdays, or even just collected, week after week, as an allowance, that kind of money doesn’t come easy to a teenager.  Heck, it doesn’t even come easy to adults.  So you can imagine that high school senior Tiana Rapp must have been rather upset when $150 went missing from her gym locker, despite the presence of an adult hall monitor.

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Robbers Nab Nappies

I would never have guessed that Tulsa, Oklahoma, would be a hotbed of criminal activity, but apparently the 45th-largest city in the nation is not without its darker side.  Consider, if you will, this story of an unfortunate mother who, while out for a stroll with her one-and-a-half-year-old, was accosted by three hooligans.  One asked to borrow the mother’s mobile phone, another pulled out a gun, and the third sprayed the woman with pepper spray.
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Car Stolen With Kids Inside

A mom in Georgia went through an unimaginable nightmare. During a robbery at her home, her car was stolen with two of her children still inside.

The kids are OK now.

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Children Speak Out About Being Robbed

Children who were robbed by a high school student appeared on The Today Show this morning to discuss what they learned from the theft. The kids, between the ages of seven and eleven, were selling Fourth of July gear at the local pool to try to raise some extra money. Continue reading »