Although sometimes gambling losses can be very painful even to the an extent of doing something irrational but what I read  here is just pure wickedness and evil intentions but that's what you get for making gambling an addiction and only an addicted person could gamble away a whooping sum 8000$ which they can know can affect them if they lose that money. That's why its always good to see gambling as a fun habit and only put small money you know won't affect you because losses can really make someone do crazy things  like what this mother and son did.