I'm trying to figure out what is reasonable.. We trusted this woman, we suffered loss.. I'm trying to figure out what are the damages here.. I'm not lawyer, and this is just the beginning of all this for us.. I wouldn't go as far to say that I won't be happy for her to pay a significant amount over what she owes us..
Here's the way I look at all this, realistically. Over the past couple months I've noticed a lot of "strange things", gift cards going missing (the one I got for Christmas this year and others over the past few months).. I had a 1893 us navy signal cannon go missing.. credit card fraud.. We found yesterday as well that she took our kids to CVS and shoplifted with them.. I'm positive there is other stuff we have no idea we are missing yet.. We were always amazed that she would not only baby sit, but would "clean" our house very very well, bout once a week.. A lot of times after this we'd not find stuff... We never ever believed that she would be capable of this.... Keep in mind that she's been our babysitter for 2-3 years.. The bank account records we keep only go back a year, so there's a good chance that this could have been going on much longer than we have access to... I want to get as much as I can because of this... I'm not sure what the damages are.. I'm not sure how badly we are taken. We were screwed.. We are good people, up until my cannon went missing, in my 38 years of life I've never called to get a police reports, and now in just a few months, I have 3.. Is it wrong to get what I can out of this from her, I don't think so.. I don't care really what her sentence or plea bargain is right now, I want to see her punished from all this.. I want to sue her for what I can get, no matter if I can collect.. I think that we are owed the money, interest and some emotional damages.. What reasonable person in my position wouldn't want to be compensated for being screwed.. We are shocked by all this, and we are angry.. There are 5 people really involved here.. My wife, myself, her, and her parents.. I can't think of anything we did to deserve any of this except for her and he actions.. This went on over about 10 months now before we realized what was going on.. So every time she was over, and she told us how great we were, she was also screwing us... And she knew it.. The discussion we had with her yesterday was all about her not going to jail, and not about remorse for anything she did..
I dunno, am I being unreasonable here?

