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[quote=Anonymous]Immediately tell her you don’t believe her at the moment that she is lying to you. Do t wait and allow her to think she is good at being convincing.

At the very least, she needs to know that her past actions of stealing from you and other members of your family (and don’t say “taking things”—use the proper criminal terminology so that she understands the implication and weight of it…it’s STEALING) make it impossible for you to trust that she was randomly gifted $100 items by a friend at school that you’ve never heard of. Tell her it’s far more likely that the explanation is that she has developed a pattern of theft, and you are concerned because the consequences for this are not minor. What’s more, you should tell her that it worries you that she either doesn’t have a moral conscience about this or she isn’t listening to it. Either of those is not good.

You need to take bc away her privilege of going shopping unsupervised for starters. And if you catch her with stolen merchandise again, tell her you are immediately throwing it away or donating it unless she can produce a receipt. Don’t play this “it’s from a friend who moved away” nonsense.[/quote]

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