DOUBLES VENDOR ROBBED BY SCOOLBOY

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A chance decision to go live on tiktok while plying his trade, led to one doubles video capturing the moment a primary-school child relieved him of some of his hard-earned cash. However the vendor tells TV6, he has chosen to forgive the young boy. Rynessa Cutting has more.

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00:00A decision to start live streaming his daily routine is what led to one doubles vendor

00:16capturing the moment a young boy dipped into his cash box and pulled out half of his day's

00:22earnings.

00:23Just yesterday I decided I was like, you know what, I should do lives while I'm also selling

00:27so people will see the product being sold and that's how it was caught.

00:34That's exactly how it was caught because of the live is why it was caught because when

00:37I looked into the box I realised, hey, money missing.

00:39So when I was going back to the live, I was like, hey, I need to come up with live, I

00:42need to check something and then when I was telling people that, people were like, hey,

00:45look that small boy now taking money, that's how he was caught.

00:49The vendor made contact with the boy's parents at a primary school and the money was recovered.

00:55People are calling for me to share the identity and I will not do that because I believe it

00:59was a mistake that he made.

01:01Maybe he did it before but he just needs to understand what could take place based on

01:05what he did and I had the conversation with his parents, I had the conversation with him

01:09and even with the school with what he did and how wrong it is and how much it could

01:14affect his life.

01:16I just hope that he sees the mistake that he made and he learns from it and even for

01:20the other young children who see the video, I hope they see what took place and they know

01:26not to do it because so much more could happen from this.

01:31This child could end up in YTC and that's not a nice place to be as a young child.

01:36This will tarnish your reputation for life.

01:39This will even reflect bad on his parents and I mean, I don't think, based on knowing

01:45the parents, I don't think the parents know the child doing things like this.

01:50This just goes to show that you make the child but you don't make the mind.

01:53The doubles vendor says he has chosen to forgive the child and adds that he has taken the incident

01:58as a learning opportunity.

02:01There were times, I mean, based on my account and I would have realised, you know, money

02:04was short but I couldn't figure out where it went and I want to say he did it all the

02:07time but it also gave me insight that I need to change up the logistics at that aspect

02:13of my business, of my small business.

02:15I need to figure out a different method of collecting money and, you know, not allow

02:20people to go into the money box anymore.

02:23I used to go on good faith that, you know, people would do the right thing.

02:27I mean, I'm standing right there.

02:29I'm literally standing right there so I didn't expect people to, you know, just dip out at

02:33one time while I'm standing right there but if a child shows that he can do it, I'm pretty

02:38sure maybe adults did it before.

02:40TV6 News has reached out to the Minister of Education to find out what, if any action,

02:46will be taken against the primary school boy.

02:50Ranessa Cutting, TV6 News.

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