What you will gonna do if you were in her place?

Do you mean she took the money from her place of work? As treasurer she has acess to the money, but that does not mean that she has the right to take it for her own personal use. Yes it is sad that she needed to pay a hospital bill, but that is what health insurance is for right??? If she could not be bothered to get health insurance, then she should not have been surprised when she had this bill to pay- I am sure the hospital would have accepted payment in installments considering the hgih bill and the time of year without her stealing it- which she essentially did, regardless of whether she was going to put it back again or not. She could have gotten the moiney from elsewhere, a loan or lending it frmo a family member or friend. The hospital had already treated the daughter in law and the baby, and were not demanding payment before they did anything medical for them- and she could have thought of another way to pay. She stole from the GOvernment and essentially any tax payers in your country. It is right she has to pay the debt, and I am surprised she has not been locked up and fired for this offence! If I was her boss, she would have been fired on the spot and I would have called the police too!

i understand the mother for doing what she did for her daughter in law and grandchild. As a mother, one could do things which under ordinary circumstances you don't ordinarily do. However, using the government money entrusted in her care, to help her family pay for the medical bills, is simply unethical and outright stealing! this is to say, that if i were in her place, i would not do what she did. i will find other source of funds, but not the money entrusted to me for safekeeping. as a government employee, one has a duty towards the people you serve, and it does not mean that you have the right to use the money whenever you feel like it, no matter how exigent it may seem.. except maybe if my family is held at gunpoint, and the only thing that would save them is for me to use the money entrusted to me as a treasurer, would i then do what needs to be done..i will use the money of course, but that's another scenario of course.

Taking cash from office is noting but crime. No employee can take the money for own use. The situation of the mother was worse. But it must not make her dishonest. She had to meet the bill from other sources, like, borrowing money from friends, office fellows, withdrawing from office fund legally. Her blunder of non-insurance should the be the cause of dishonesty. Every office faiths its employees. The offices are running on the belief of Good faith. But the mother's activity is against the custom.

I guess if i would be in her shoe, i would ask for help from my relatives first, or submit an emergency loan perhaps. That would be the last thing on my mind, because you don't only put your job on the line, but also your family. Tendency is, she could her job and that would affect her whole family. I would certainly help my son but not to the extent that it will put me and everyone else in trouble. There is always a way, if she got that position, i'm sure she has good friends or relatives that could help her, or even sell a property is an option.