my cousins are robbing my grandma blind
I have 2 twin girl cousins, and for the past 6 months they have been sneaking into my grandmas pocketbook when shes sleeping, or not watching it and stealing money all the time. Grandma tells me all the time, I've bought her 2 safes, they break into those too. They are the 2 most devious ungrateful 20yr old b**ches in the world, and I told her to have them both arrested, and have the room fingerprinted. She wont do it, and she keeps complaining all the time. I'm gonna tell my dad, see what he thinks. This is so wrong, after all shes done for them in her life (they live w/her their mom died in 2001) I cant stand it anymore, any suggestions are welcome.
If your granny doesnt want to press charges against them then it kind of rules out putting hidden cameras in place and the cops cannot do anything without her letting them. You need to do everything you can to talk her into letting you call the police for her. If anything confront the girls and warn them.
If she does have large amounts lying about, the first thing she should do is bank it, for several obvious reasons. If she's disabled, maybe a family member -- obviously, not the cousins -- could be appointed to care for her deposits and withdrawals on a regular basis. Any spare cash that she wishes to keep at home could obviously be hidden in several different places. If her memory poses a problem in this area, she could keep a notebook describing the locations of her caches.
What bothers me the most about this situation is the fact that nothing has really been done about this sooner. Is she possibly afraid of retaliation by these girls? Or is she afraid of losing their affection if she no longer serves as a source of steady income for them? In either case, she is being victimized. I hope that a solution can be found soon before she loses more than she can easily replace.