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15/05/2008
Girl, 15, Admits Double Pensioner Scam
A girl who preyed on kind pensioners by pretending to be a charity collector has been remanded on bail pending sentence.
The girl, 15, who is originally from Romania, but now residing in Co Meath pleaded guilty to burgling two homes, in Glenageary, Co Dublin, on July last 18.
The girl and an accomplice stole €175 in cash and €30 worth of phone credit from one house and about €200 from the other, after the elderly residents agreed to making charitable donations to the girl.
She also admitted to the theft of a handbag and its contents worth €230, from a house in the same area, which happened in February last year.
Garda Daniel Treacy of Dun Laoghaire Station had said in evidence that she had been let inside the home "on the pretext that she was collecting money for a deaf and dumb foundation. She was given €5 meanwhile another youth, who was with her, went upstairs and took €130 and €30 of phone credit."
The second burglary that day was carried out in the same way.
The girl had also been convicted of trespassing in a 75-year-od woman’s home with intent to commit an offence, on April 13 2006, then aged 13.
The teen girl and an accomplice had called to the woman's home in Foxrock, Dublin and asked for a glass of water. The woman agreed and told them to wait at her door as she went to her kitchen.
The witness told the court: "I turned around from my kitchen sink and they were standing there behind me but they had not been invited into my home."
The elderly woman then became nervous as one of the girls acted as a 'decoy' and the other ran upstairs. She threatened to call the gardai at which they left. However, she then noticed that her purse containing her bus pass, cash and bankcards were missing from her kitchen.
The girl, who was accompanied to court by her father, was remanded on continuing bail.
(DW)
The girl, 15, who is originally from Romania, but now residing in Co Meath pleaded guilty to burgling two homes, in Glenageary, Co Dublin, on July last 18.
The girl and an accomplice stole €175 in cash and €30 worth of phone credit from one house and about €200 from the other, after the elderly residents agreed to making charitable donations to the girl.
She also admitted to the theft of a handbag and its contents worth €230, from a house in the same area, which happened in February last year.
Garda Daniel Treacy of Dun Laoghaire Station had said in evidence that she had been let inside the home "on the pretext that she was collecting money for a deaf and dumb foundation. She was given €5 meanwhile another youth, who was with her, went upstairs and took €130 and €30 of phone credit."
The second burglary that day was carried out in the same way.
The girl had also been convicted of trespassing in a 75-year-od woman’s home with intent to commit an offence, on April 13 2006, then aged 13.
The teen girl and an accomplice had called to the woman's home in Foxrock, Dublin and asked for a glass of water. The woman agreed and told them to wait at her door as she went to her kitchen.
The witness told the court: "I turned around from my kitchen sink and they were standing there behind me but they had not been invited into my home."
The elderly woman then became nervous as one of the girls acted as a 'decoy' and the other ran upstairs. She threatened to call the gardai at which they left. However, she then noticed that her purse containing her bus pass, cash and bankcards were missing from her kitchen.
The girl, who was accompanied to court by her father, was remanded on continuing bail.
(DW)
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