GOOD DEED Twelve Year Old Finds And Returns Thousands In Cash
Reported by: Atish Baidya
Videographer: Mike Magee
Web Producer: Atish Baidya
Reported: Mar. 2, 2012 8:48 AM EST
Updated: Mar. 2, 2012 8:57 AM EST
EYEWITNESS ONLINE WEBCAST VIDEO C L I C K T O P L A Y
Charleston
, Kanawha County
, West Virginia
It is in the face of temptation that our true character shows.
“I thought about it that much,” Samia said as she held her fingers apart about in inch. “But I thought about it and said no, it wasn’t right.”
Samia King showed her true character in the Kroger parking lot when she opened up a bank deposit bag left in a cart.
“I was like, wow,” she said. “I couldn’t breathe. I was amazed.”
Inside that bag: at least a thousand dollars in cash.
“It was a SunTrust bank bag,” Samia said. “It had a wad of money and another wad of money and checks and keys.”
Samia did the right thing and took the bag to the customer service desk inside the store. Her grandmother Linda couldn’t be prouder.
“God put the right one there,” Linda said. “Had it been anybody else, a thief, it would have been gone.”
Samia’s learned the right lessons from her grandmother and mother, plus just one other she’s learned all by herself.
“It is not right stealing other people’s money or the banks money because then you could be on Eyewitness News,” she said. “I don’t want to be on there.”
Well, she’s on the news anyway for doing something good.
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