I am curious to know what help is being offered to the girl caught up in stealing. What are the school principal and counsellor doing to interveen? Have you considered speaking with the girl yourself or talking with her parents or at least making sure the school is talking to the girl and her parents? Since things are escellating it seems like this girl is heading into bigger and bigger problems. She now has a possy and is getting locked into a corner. I just think someone needs to find out what is going on with her before things go too far.

A while back a friend my son's who spends a lot of time in our home stole some money from my son's dresser. He denied it when my son asked him about it the next time he came over but when I joined in the discussion he confessed to taking it. He was 13 at the time and while he didn't need the money he said he took it because it was there. When I pressed him further it became clear it was only a symptom of bigger issues he was facing in his life. The experience ended up bonding this boy even closer to my son and to me. He needed someone to notice him and to care enough to confront his bad choices by digging deeper into the root causes.