So, I’ve had a pretty bad theft problem going on in my house recently.
My mom and I will have some money stored up somewhere, and it’ll disappear. We hadn’t spent it, or even took it out of the house. Then mysteriously, my little brother will have money. More often than not, the exact amount that.went missing. Sometimes more.
He always claims that the money came from our dad, who supposedly gives him the money for helping him out outside of the house. When we confront my brother about it, he bursts into tears, and starts screaming and throwing things and hitting them. He goes on a miniature rampage, then runs whining to our dad, who threatens to kick me out.
If we take.the money back, my brother still screams and cries. If we give him his cash back, he still cries, then runs to our dad. And then he claims we didn’t pay him t, and demands more money.
This just recently happened today too. I had $3 go missing. I admit, I jumped to conclusions, and suspected my brother. I took a dollar I found in his lunchbox. When he confronted me about it( yelling and screaming mind you) I gave it back to him. He claimed I didn’t, and demanded the money again. I offered him some money I did have, he refused, and demanded money.from our mom. He mentioned he had a dollar in his pocket though.
We often find other stuff of ours in my brother’s room, such as movies and games. But more often than not, we’ve always had money disappear.
My dad doesn’t believe my brother could ever steal, he thinks the world of my brother. He thinks we’re just hallucinating on our stuff disappearing. Yet, he has money seemingly all the time, and often gives money to my brother, occasionally, the exact amount I have missing.
How do we stop this theft?