'Naive' girl steals €31,000 in cash and gold from mother's house
A 16-year-old girl who was described as being naive and infatuated with her 20-year-old lover, was placed under probation today after she addmitted in court to having stolen more than €31,000 in cash and gold from her mother's house and handing it to him. Both the girl and her boyfriend are from Marsa.
The court heard how the girl used to tell her lover that a lot of cash and gold were kept in her mother's house. He used to ask questions and eventually she started stealing some of the cash and jewelery and handing it over to him.
€15,000 in cash and €16,300 in gold were stolen. Only €2,000 actually belonged to the girl's mother. The rest of the cash belonged to her mother's partner, who is in prison.
The girl's mother renounced criminal action against her daughter.
Police Inspector Joseph Agius said the girl had cooperated with the police and was prepared to testify against her lover.
The court decided to place the girl under probation for three years.
Her lover was arraigned separately. He pleaded not guilty to being an accomplice in theft and handling stolen property, including selling off the stolen gold.
He has been kept in custody.
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neville debattista
Nov 22nd 2010, 16:25
@Pauline Abela. Ilqatt il-musmar fuq rasu Pauline. Romeo will have to have to face the music. I would definetily not like to be standing in his shoes.
PJ Mifsud
Nov 22nd 2010, 11:42
I sincerely believe that the sole category of citizens who can be described as "naive" by today's ethical (sic) standards are hardworking people who make an honest living by utilising their salaries/pensions/investments.
Thieves involved in regular hold-ups who are permitted by our judicial system to retain the spoils of their misdemeanours once they are identified, arrested and hopefully jailed and their accomplices/partners are certainly not naive. They have discovered one of the myriad loopholes in common use that contribute to how idlers can live off the Welfare State and its honest citizens.
It is about time that our judicial system (and that includes the Minister of Justice) to introduce a reform to compensate victims of thefts from the ill-acquired spoils that these criminals illegally possess by confiscating their assets.
p forace
Nov 21st 2010, 20:56
Think . Is she under age or not ? what was all this money use for ? fun, drugs or just keeping it for the 20 year old investment? under probation does she have help,Does she has to go to Apogg..Does anyone follow her in these 3 years. the system should have an update of her, and look at it in 3 years time. Please follow her and help her if the system does not then we have lost an other one. just probation would have not solved anything.
magius
Nov 22nd 2010, 13:52
please refere to Chapter 446 of the Laws of Malta and you can see the duties of a probation officer!!!
Dr Francis Saliba
Nov 21st 2010, 11:40
I wonder who is realley "naive", this girl, her family or the society that is actually fostering this state of affairs and castigating the traditional Maltese Christian family.
EPhillips
Nov 22nd 2010, 13:21
Naivety, as far as I’m aware, is not exclusive to specific societies, or indeed strata’s within specific societies. I would imagine you’ll find naïve persons within all sectors, on a person by person basis, on a subject by subject basis. Even amongst those who purport to be learned.
Pauline Abela
Nov 21st 2010, 08:45
'The rest of the cash belonged to her mother's partner, who is in prison.'
Hmmm, the 'partner' must have worked hard before he went to prison.
I suspect 'the 20-year-old lover' is going to have some explaining to do either when the 'partner' gets out of prison or when the 'lover' joins the 'partner' in prison.
Alan Xuereb
Nov 22nd 2010, 09:52
HAHAHAHA, as they say, you stole the words from my mouth. Perfect and to the point!
Marianna Galea Xuereb
Nov 21st 2010, 07:33
How can "the Times" refer to such a manipulative monster as the 16-year old girl's 20-year-old "lover". They might have shared a sexual relationship alright but to describe the man as a "lover" of the girl is carrying things much too far - even in this day and age of over-permissive artistic and literary license.
jesmond cilia
Nov 20th 2010, 21:17
Where is the poverty? With 31,000 euro stashed it seems more the case of a thief stealing from another!!
DGalea
Nov 21st 2010, 11:21
Erm,.... and some still belive that honesty is the best policy.
Nick Falzon
Nov 22nd 2010, 12:44
Anyone with 15,000 euros stashed away at home is asking for trouble.
I wonder why the money wasn't put safely into the bank. I wonder. I wonder.
Oh hang on, that's right, the partner is in jail.
Philip Hili
Nov 20th 2010, 19:07
@ E. Vella and @ R. Agius.
Both of you are correct in your interpenetration and I agree with you.
I would be more appropriate had the big heads who talk about this subject explain to their audience what they want to mean when they say that there is poverty in Malta. You do not blame the man in the street if he thinks that poverty preached by these big heads is poverty in the sense of Pounds Shillings and Pence.
A. Vassallo
Nov 20th 2010, 19:02
@ tony abela
A comment like that coming from you smells foul as it has a political connotation.
This is NOT another form of TODAY'S poverty and families with social problems. It is a problem that has been existing in our world for many many years.
It surely existed in the 50's (the decade I was born in), in the 60's, in the 70's and 80's, in the 90's and in the first decade of the third millennium. Are you trying to blame also the Gonzi Government for this?
Mark Demicoli
Nov 20th 2010, 20:39
Can you please and please please tell me WHY someone always has to mention politics????? WHy????
tony abela
Nov 20th 2010, 21:57
@A Vassallo: Read the comment below. I am NOT referring to material poverty. See my answer before jumping to conclusion. Just WHO is trying to make a political connotion of this?
tony abela
Nov 20th 2010, 17:18
No I am not referring material poverty, but to mentality poverty when one is to naive to let other greedy persons taking advantage of them. This is mainly due to social problems within the family, low IQs, lack of life skills, etc.
Material poverty can be quantified and in some way action can be taken to compensate it. But poverty due to once attitude and upbringing is more difficult to tackle.
Jamie Iain Genovese
Nov 21st 2010, 11:49
Bejnietna, IQ tests are rubbish ;D
People all around the world today lack a lot. But I don't think it has to do with broken measures of intelligence as such.
tony abela
Nov 20th 2010, 15:30
This is another form of today's poverty, families with social problems and the trouble they get tangled in.
A. Zahra
Nov 20th 2010, 15:48
Poverty with so much cash and gold in the house? You must have much more in your own house to see this as poverty!
evelyn vella brincat
Nov 20th 2010, 16:16
poverty sabih!
DGalea
Nov 20th 2010, 16:49
I think that it is not just the girl who is 'naive' here.
E Vella
Nov 20th 2010, 16:51
he did not mean poverty in the sense of lack of tangible goods such as money, cars, jewellary, etc.
he is refering to poverty in respect of social problems within families.
R Agius
Nov 20th 2010, 16:57
@ A. Zahra: I think tony abela is not referring to financial poverty, but to social poverty. They are two different things. A drug dealer might be well off, but he and those around him are still characterized by social problems.
victor vella
Nov 20th 2010, 16:58
Won't the police investigate how a man in prison has that much money and gold stashed away?
anthony gouder
Nov 20th 2010, 17:26
Poverty is being POOR. No Possessions. This is a social problem not poverty.
Christian Sciberras
Nov 20th 2010, 23:39
@anthony goude
Ever heard about a "poor sense of humor"?
Does one have to be rich to understand humor?