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Girl Scouts go after thieving parents
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The Girl Scouts are putting on their brass knuckles and they are ready to break some legs. Even worse, they've hired lawyers. Lawyers who are going to court to sue parents in Northwest Indiana who have had their hand in the Girl Scout cookie jar, stealing $8,000 in cookie money from 2004 and 2005 sales.
"Money that the girls earned has been misused by adults," said Marlene Cosby, CEO of the Drifting Dunes Girl Scout Council in Indiana, which represents 6,000 girls. Under Girl Scout traditions, parents do a lot of the financial work in the annual sales. They collect cash, account for cookie supplies and they are then supposed to deposit the proceeds. The Girl Scouts have had problems with parents who didn't pay up right away in the past, but almost all of those parents eventually did repay the money. "But increasingly, they're not even make an attempt to repay the money," Cosby said.
How is that any different from grabbing a scout's money and running off with it? How do these parents live with themselves? I hope the lawyers are real pit bulls.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
10-30-2006 @ 1:29PM
ann adams said...It's embezzlement and they should be ashamed.
Just a civil suit? What about criminal charges or is that going overboard a wee bit?
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10-30-2006 @ 1:49PM
Annie said...That's terrible! I used to eat a lot of the cookies I was supposed to be selling, and then face the horrible realization at the end of the sale that I had to come up with the money for all the boxes I'd munched my way through. That was tough, but if my cookie-parents had stolen it! I wouldn't even have believed it possible.
-Annie
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10-30-2006 @ 4:17PM
Kathy said...Worse off, for two years in a row, I've paid (at our front door) for cookies that I've never recieved.
I've now decided, if I'm to get the cookies, I'll do it at one of those stands that some of them set up in front of the grocery store.
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10-31-2006 @ 10:56PM
Maria P. said...Disgusting.
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10-31-2006 @ 3:08PM
Belinda said...I would find that troop Kathy if you can remember the troop number.
My mom use to sell them at work and I sold them at School. I had so much fun and thanks to my mom's work I became the top cookie seller so many years in a row that they said I couldn't win anymore prizes, said it wasn't fair. Stopping me from getting the prizes (which is why I tried to get so many sales) kinda got to me and I didn't do as well in sales anymore (at least not on my part).
It is really awful that the parents were stealing! I hope that lawyer rips them to shreds!!!
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