A 13-year-old girl in China who is addicted to mobile games stole her mother’s debit card and spent 449,500 yuan (S$85,000) on app games in four months. The mother, who wanted to be known only as Ms Wang, discovered the theft when she got a call from her daughter’s...
The girl said in the video that she was reluctant to pay for her classmates but gave in when they kept pestering her.
She said she did not understand how much money was in the debit card, or that the funds were her parents’ hard-earned money.
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