New definition of chitlin circuit - some people just don’t deserve to be parents
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http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/local/2-adults-charged-using-kids-shoplift/nGB2M/<br /><br />CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — Two adults in two separate cases are behind bars after police say they used children to help them shoplift.<br /><br />Rosa Hightower, 34, and Joelle Mulumba, 23, are both charged with theft by shoplifting and contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Clayton County police officers said Hightower shoplifted from the Kroger store on Highway 85 in Riverdale.<br /><br />"You took four bags of chitterlings valued at $32 by placing the bags in a red bag as to conceal them," Judge Beatriz Scott said as she read from Hightower’s criminal warrant.<br /><br />But it's what the judge revealed next that had inmates in the courtroom shaking their heads, and some laughing.<br /><br />"You committed the act by using a 14-year-old child to act as a cover," the judge said.<br /><br />Police said Hightower had her daughter cover her to keep the store's surveillance cameras from recording the theft. Some shoppers couldn't believe it.<br /><br />"I'm at a loss for words about this. It shouldn't be that important that you would take your child to a store and you would steal," Correlle Richmond told Channel 2 Action News reporter Tom Jones.<br /><br />Hightower was not the only person accused of using a child to shoplift in court. Riverdale police said Mulumba also used children to shoplift.<br /><br />Officers said she stole 14 tubes of lipstick worth $87 from a Publix in Morrow. They said she used her 2-year-old niece and 6-year-old nephew to help her shoplift. <br /><br />Police said Mulumba took the children in the store’s bathroom and put the items in their clothes there.<br /><br />Shoppers wondered what the adults were thinking.<br /><br />"It certainly doesn't teach them how to be responsible and have ethics and making positive choices," Brenda Peters said.<br /><br />Riverdale's police chief said some adults use children to shoplift thinking they won't be charged if they're caught.<br /><br />Hightower and Mulumba are being held on $5,000 bond.
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