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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My sister has been a kleptomaniac for years. I no longer go into stores with her it's embarrassing. A few weeks ago she came home with about 2k worth of stuff from target. The following week she has a bunch of expensive stuff from Wegmans.[/quote]

I'm sorry, PP. She's mentally ill but will be viewed (here on DCUM as well as in society) as just morally corrupt.

This story has gotten a lot of coverage in recent days: 
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2024/05/07/target-self-checkout-thief-aziza-graves-convicted/73599144007/

It's about a woman who stole extensively from Target using the self-checkouts. She's facing a possible three-year prison sentence. This could be your sister very soon and I hope that either she gets caught and gets help while in prison, or preferably, there is some way to intervene and get her help before she ends up in prison. Maybe your family has tried to get her to stop and can't. It's sad.

I had a friend who shoplifted, but mostly she spent wildly beyond her means; it took ages before she finally got an accurate diagnosis of bipolar disorder. The stealing and spending manifested during her manic periods. Closets full of unused items with tags still on them. Good treatment helped, though she was in terrible debt (but lucky she was never caught shoplifting). Not saying your sister has bipolar disorder, just noting that theft is sometimes about mental illness (and yes, sometimes it's only about pure jerk entitlement--as with OP's selfish idiot boyfriend).[/quote]

I think it's some kind of mental illness. She was caught twice years ago. She has had a hard time finding a job because she has a record. She says whenever she has had a stressful day it's even worse. How TF do you steal from COSTCO?? [/quote]

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