She Called The Cops On Her Niece After The Teen Broke Into Her House And Stole Money And Jewelry, But Her Sister’s Furious That She Didn’t “Warn” Her
This 24-year-old woman’s sister, 35, has a 16-year-old daughter. Once her sister’s daughter entered her teenage years, she began acting out and breaking rules. Her niece started talking back to adults, acting like she could do anything she wanted and assuming she didn’t need to consider other people’s opinions.
Lately, her niece started stealing and was banned from the local mall. After stealing a classmate’s phone at school, she was suspended. Her niece later stole her mom’s wedding ring and attempted to pawn it.
Because of her niece’s behavior, she doesn’t feel comfortable allowing her niece to stay at her house. She worked a lot to buy what she had, so she understandably didn’t want them stolen from her.
Two weeks ago, she realized her patio door had been left unlocked, so before she left the house, she ensured all her doors were locked. Her fiancé mentioned setting up cameras, and she agreed, so they purchased cameras and placed them throughout the house. Last Wednesday, she and her fiancé left the house to tour wedding venues all day.
“When we got back, I only had to unlock the bottom lock to get in the house, so we checked the cameras, and, sure enough, my niece and her friends somehow picked the lock to the window, and she was in our house for hours with two guys,” she said.
Her niece and the two men stole cash out of her purse, two of her fiancé’s Rolex watches, and her grandma’s wedding ring, which her grandmother gave her last year before she died from cancer.
Their cameras captured footage of her niece and the men enjoying snacks, sitting on the couch, and putting their feet on the coffee table with their shoes on while they watched TV. Her niece and the two guys acted as if this was their house as if it was completely ordinary.
After discovering that her niece and two men broke into her house and stole from them, she called her sister and explained the situation. She informed her sister that she’d give her niece two days to return the money and items she’d stolen, and if she didn’t, she would call the cops.
Her sister assured her she’d tell her daughter to return everything, but the two days passed, and by Friday, her niece hadn’t yet returned the money and other belongings.
Valerii Honcharuk – stock.adobe.com – illustrative purposes only, not the actual person
Then, she followed through with what she’d told her sister. She called the cops, who visited her home and showed them the camera footage of her niece breaking in and stealing. After filing a police report, her sister called her, sobbing and yelling on the phone.
Her sister claimed she should have given her a heads-up that she’d be filing a police report. In response, she reminded her sister that she’d informed her she was giving her and her niece two days to return the stolen money and belongings.
Since the two days had come and gone with no word from her sister or nice, she followed through and told her sister she’d get the cops involved because she hadn’t been bluffing.
“She’s lucky I gave her grace for two days. My mom called me and said, ‘You don’t have kids, so you don’t understand,'” she explained.
“I told her it doesn’t matter if I have kids or not. She committed a crime and brought two random people into my house.”
“My safety is in danger. I don’t understand the ‘You should have warned me’ thing. Warned her for what? So that she could hide her?”
In her view, she isn’t the one in the wrong in this situation. Later, her sister and her sister’s husband told her they wouldn’t attend her wedding.
She assured them that since their daughter broke into her house and stole from her, they were no longer invited to her wedding anyway.
Her sister’s husband eventually started threatening her, and she was tempted to block him and her sister.
However, her fiancé advised her against it because he thought it was important for her to have as much proof as possible if their behavior escalated, and she needed more police involvement.
“We do have a security system now. We’ve changed the locks. We’re getting a safe for my fiancé’s watches and more valuable stuff,” she shared.
“We planned on moving by the end of the year, and none of my family will know where I live now. I don’t feel safe here knowing two random men know where I live. My fiancé also says that we’re getting a guard dog.”
She and her fiancé had already been hoping to own a dog someday, and they wouldn’t buy a dog for the sole purpose of guarding their home. They’d been planning to buy a dog once they moved somewhere else.
In the meantime, she’s been constantly calling pawn shops in the area and checking Facebook and Craigslist in search of the items her niece stole.
Thinking it over, she knew that if her niece was desperate for money, she could have asked her or someone else for financial help instead of stealing from her.
What advice would you give her?
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