shoplifting<\/a> as \u201centrenched offending\u201d.<\/p>\nKleptomania is a mental health condition, specifically an impulse control disorder characterised by repeated urges to steal items, often for no personal use or financial gain. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe children were removed from your care … You say you will now focus on them and put the offending behind you,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am sceptical of that, you haven\u2019t been truthful.\u201d<\/p>\n
The court heard the children had been returned to the woman\u2019s care.<\/p>\n
Judge Orchard said the woman had also attempted to excuse herself by claiming she was stealing alongside her mother.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have come up with excuses; frankly, the responsibility lies with you.\u201d<\/p>\n
The court heard that between April and June this year, she stole $1617 worth of perfumes from the Chemist Warehouse South City in Christchurch, $560 speakers from The Warehouse Rolleston and under $500 in health and beauty products from Woolworths Rolleston.<\/p>\n
She also stole $710 of clothing and cosmetics from Kmart Riccarton and $150 of groceries from Woolworths Eastgate.<\/p>\n
Judge Orchard said the woman had previously received a range of different sentences, but nothing had deterred her from reoffending. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m minded to send you to prison, given you are a recidivist offender. However, I am prepared by a very narrow margin that home detention is the least restrictive outcome.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you continue, then you can expect to go to prison sooner rather than later. <\/p>\n
\u201cI hope for your children\u2019s sake you are more sincere than you appear to be.\u201d<\/p>\n
The woman was sentenced to four and a half months of home detention.<\/p>\n
Al Williams is an Open Justice reporter for the New Zealand Herald, based in Christchurch. He has worked in daily and community titles in New Zealand and overseas for the last 16 years. Most recently he was editor of the Hauraki-Coromandel Post, based in Whangamat\u0101. He was previously deputy editor of the Cook Islands News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cShe claims she is a kleptomaniac. When I look at the charges, she is clearly stealing for resale,\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13735,1558,4057,682,138,1061,4487,2562,21137,3011,71,46911,6178,111,139,69,1118,46912,4742,1305,4743,42909,19554,1361,46870,2846,6859,15123],"class_list":["post-55703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-actions","tag-been","tag-behind","tag-being","tag-business","tag-children","tag-christchurch","tag-claims","tag-criminal","tag-four","tag-from","tag-kleptomania","tag-mother","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-of","tag-regard","tag-shoplifting","tag-show","tag-spree","tag-string","tag-taken","tag-that","tag-thefts","tag-them","tag-told","tag-yearslong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}