Vic: Mum who stole bank's $255,000 escapes jail
A Melbourne mother of four who helped herself to more than a quarter of a million dollarswhich was accidentally paid into her daughter's bank account has walked free from courton a suspended sentence.
Thirty-year-old JODIE PARCHOMENKO, of suburban Oakleigh, stole $255,000 from a totalof $325,000 which was channelled into her three-year-old child's account in a bankingblunder.
In sentencing her today, Victorian County Court judge SUSAN COHEN said PARCHOMENKOhad not explained what had happened to much of the cash she stole.
PARCHOMENKO said she had spent $30,000 on drugs, a lesser amount of gambling on thepokies and that she had paid bills for herself and for friends.
She had, during May last year, either by internet or going in person to the Mount Waverleybranch of the Bank of Melbourne, taken out amounts between $1,500 and $10,000. At onetime she withdrew $50,000.
Judge COHEN said that through no fault of her own a huge temptation had been placedin PARCHOMENKO's way.
She said she took into account there had been no planning or attempt at subterfugein the theft of the money.
Judge COHEN also bore in mind that PARCHOMENKO was a mother of four young children.
PARCHOMENKO, who pleaded guilty to theft, was released on a 12-month suspended sentence.
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KEYWORD: PARCHOMENKO (MELBOURNE)
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