Music teacher’s good deeds come at cost
By Bill Lawson / Staff Writer / blawson@maumellemonitor.com
Wednesday, December 31, 2008 11:08 AM CST
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| Pine Forest Elementary School music teacher Amie Csege leads the third-grade choir in Christmas carols at a local nursing home. While she was gone on the field trip, someone stole her purse and all its contents from her desk at the school (Bill Lawson). |
On Dec. 19, a Pine Forest Elementary School music teacher took her entire second-grade class on a field trip to serenade customers, parents and Maumelle Chamber of Commerce members with a Christmas concert at National Bank of Arkansas. That afternoon she loaded the entire third grade class on buses to do the same at area nursing homes.
After a day of dispensing Christmas cheer, Amie Csege, 31, returned to Pine Forest Elementary to find the purse she left in her desk at her office had been stolen. When she called to report her credit cards stolen, $1,500 had already been charged to her accounts at Wal-Mart and Target stores.
In addition to the credit cards, the thief got away with cash, her checkbook, Social Security card, driver’s license and wallet.
Police advised her to cancel her credit cards, notify the bank about the stolen checks, inform the credit bureaus of her stolen credit cards and Social Security card to put a freeze on any new accounts and to get with them later about other steps she should take. They also advised her to contact police departments in the jurisdiction where the cards were used to complete incident reports.
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