She tried to take out of the store without paying, only five eggs, but could not.
Poverty often forces people to do things they would never do in a normal situation.
That is why, when faced with the choice of stealing or leaving the children to starve, a woman chose the first option without hesitation.
She tried to take out of the store, without paying, only five eggs, but could not. She was caught almost immediately.
When police officer William Stacey arrived and found out about the woman’s story, instead of arresting her, he decided to come to the rescue.
It turned out that the “guilty” woman is raising 2 daughters, a sister and two grandchildren, one of whom is only a year old, and the second is three.
They live on just $120 a month.
However, apparently, fate considered that this was not enough. Last week, someone robbed a woman, and the family was on the verge of starvation.
On Saturday, two days had passed since they had last eaten. So the woman decided to go to the supermarket.
She had just over one dollar and the determination to get 5 eggs.
The woman was in great despair when she discovered that the eggs cost a little more than she bargained for. But she still put 5 grand in her pockets.
Unfortunately, she was detained, and the eggs were taken away.
“I must be a useless thief,” she said.
Supermarket workers noticed her immediately after they noticed that the yolk and protein leaked out of both pockets of the woman.
The poor thing immediately admitted that she stole them to feed her family.
The police arrived at the call of the store employees. But when Officer William Stacey heard why the woman was behaving so badly, he decided not to detain her.
A unanimous decision was made not to sue Mrs. Johnson and to let her go.
But when the officer approached her, she was sure that he was going to arrest her. She began to cry.
In fact, the policeman just decided to make sure that what she said was not a lie, and came to see how she lives.
Seeing the frank need in the family, he realized that the woman was not deceiving and was actually guided by despair.
The policeman bought a pack of eggs. And when the woman tried to ask how she could thank him, he only asked her not to shoplift anymore.
He hugged her and left.
The next day, William, along with his colleagues, arrived at the lady’s house in two cars, in which there were provisions for the whole family.
“I haven’t seen so much food in a long time. The last time it was when I was twelve years old, and I lived with my grandmother”, said the woman.
“I cried with joy for almost a whole day”.
After that, the police decided to create a fund. They began to raise funds to somehow help the woman’s family.
Many responded, and from different parts of the world.
The woman was sent money, food and clothes.
