In the last two months of her employment, the 28-year-old stole money from four customers, with the thefts only being discovered when one of them queried receiving a letter about money being withdrawn from a dormant account.
TSB Bank teller stole $28,000 from customers to feed her gambling addictionHow far do people go to feed a gambling addiction?
In this story we have a young bank teller, 28 years old lady, who stole 28,000$ from four different elders who were suffering from health and cognitive problems. Her goal was to fuel a gambling addiction, as presented by the defense at the court.
Families must be attentive to their elders when going to the bank and dealing with money in general. Scammers and thieves are everywhere and always ready to take advantage of the vulnerability of such individuals at an advanced age.
Addiction of all kinds can lead people to stealing, but it's not an excuse. There are other addicts out there who make a solid red line that they may have an addiction but would not stoop to other criminal behavior in order to fund it. I'd imagine that there are other, deeper, problems in her life that pushed her to take these more extreme actions and she is simply using gambling to escape. Nonetheless she must be punished, but hopefully incarceration gives her the ability to break free from this addiction because it will allow her mind to rebuild her habits. She was too weak to cut herself off entirely, but this will force her to give it up because she simply will not have access to gambling facilities like she did previously - I doubt jailhouse gambling will give the same thrills.