The same group of women have been arrested for 2 separate thefts, one from a Toys R Us, another from WalMart!
http://www.staradvertiser.com/news/breaking/136396208.html?id=136396208
Members of a group suspected of hauling items out of a Kaneohe toy store who claim they stole the toys as gifts for their children are also suspects in a theft two days prior of two flat-screen televisions, Honolulu police said Thursday.
Five women and a man were seen on surveillance footage carrying out boxes of merchandise on Dec. 1 at a Toys R Us at Windward Mall in Kaneohe. Several of the women contacted an attorney after police released the footage, claiming they're unemployed, single moms who stole for their kids. Four of them surrendered Tuesday and the man is expected to turn himself in on Thursday. A fifth woman is expected to surrender in the coming days.
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Myles Breiner, the attorney who is representing one of the women and arranged for the five others to get representation, could not immediately be reached Thursday. He has said all the women are down-on-their luck single moms desperate to "meet their kids' expectations." They're remorseful and took the toys to his office, Breiner said, and that he has since turned over to police.
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OK, good news is they turned themselves in!
But this stuff about being "down-on-their luck single moms desperate to meet their kids' expectations." ?
My grandma raised 8 kids in a public housing project in Kalihi (Lanakila Housing aka Puahala Homes)!
Some of those years, she was a divorced mother!
How would she react if any of her kids bought home a toy they have found at a park?
She would YELL at them to "PUT THAT TOY BACK, IT ISN'T YOURS!"If that kid refused, she would've given them a couple slaps!
(note:I'm NOT trying to glorify using corporal punishment, I'm just telling you what actually happened)
The whole point, is that even though my grandma was raising multiple kids in a ghetto neighborhood, she NEVER thought it was OK to take stuff that isn't yours!
True words of wisdom!
