Hello
So I was going through a story of a girl who literally stole 70,000 Euros to Gamble apparently it all started when she invested 20 Euro and won a thousand and since then she became addicted to easy money.
It made me realize that every now and then there is someone here sharing their addiction stories and it might help to have a particular thread for them to keep all the sources which could help them get their life straight again..
It's always useful to see these horror stories, but it's worth adding "she became addicted to easy money" is a bit misleading - the fact that she kept losing money all along should tell us that it is far from easy to win and pretty much impossible with some online gambling. What I find slightly shocking is the rather low sentence she received for the theft side of it. While I fully support helping problem gamblers, she was basically given a slap on the wrist for stealing what would be a life changing sum of money to many, community service and no jail time. It is actually a discredit to the justice system - if we were talking about a few hundred, or even a few thousand, then it might be acceptable to let them off with this light punishment. However she stole tens of thousands and consistently lied while trying to cover it up. What happens if it was a small company? That might be enough to send it bankrupt and many people could have lost their jobs for her reckless theft.