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ANCHOR MEGAN MUPRHY

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The cost of beauty can be steep -- but one Georgia pageant mom figured she’d use her five finger discount to snag a good deal.

“Strutting beauty queens, moms and daughters flock to the Girli Girl Boutique in Beaufort, but twice this month police say the woman you see on the right of your screen had other intentions.”

Girl: “She would have her kids running around kind of being her eyes for her.”

“Store manager Micah Smith said the woman told her she was shopping for pageant gowns for her two daughters.”
(ABC)

The manager reviewed the security tapes to find Elizabeth Pack stole $5,000 worth of pageant dresses. Atlanta’s WGCL has the surveillance footage.

“Keep your eye on the woman with the over sized purse on the right side of your screen.  Her technique is quick -- fold, stuff and keep walking.  Watch again.”

Police arrested Pack for theft -- and two counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor-- seeing as her daughters were her lookouts. The store manager tells Atlanta’s WAGA -- this obviously isn’t typical mother behavior.

“It makes me sick that she would use her daughter’s in that way -- to use them as her eyes while she steals.”

A blog called Worst Parents Ever agrees saying --

“Moms: if you think shoplifting is a victimless crime because you’re stealing from a big store, think again.  The victim is your child whom you endanger in your escapes, embarrass with your arrest, and corrupt with your actions.  Stealing to survive is one thing, stealing because you want new clothes, ball gowns, or DVDs is entirely different.”

Pack hasn’t said why she stole the dresses but store managers think the sticky-fingered mama planned to sell them on the black market. 

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