I caught a THIEF and he's just a KID!

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We own a convenience store and we have a separate cache for the coins. All the other money are inside the cash register. We slept late the other night because of a TV show. And we didn't notice anything weird. When we woke up yesterday, we found that our stash of coins is empty and one of our windows were open, luckily though the bills are kept inside a safe. Of course it meant that they were stolen. We just thought that maybe the thief who stole it really needed money because he stole even the coins. So we left the incident to experience. However, yesterday afternoon, after my brother got out of the toilet and I from my room, our cache of coins is missing again! We searched the store thinking that maybe someone misplaced it there. While we were searching for it, there were three kids outside our store. My brother went out and asked if they saw something. They just ignored him and went to the end of the block. My brother had an instinct that they were the ones who stole the cache because it was already raining and they didn't bother going home or even taking cover. My brother searched outside of our store and he found our cache and the coins beside the trashcan! We felt that the kids will come back for it, so we took out the coins and returned the cache to where we found it. I situated beside the window, the curtains covering me. After 10 minutes I saw one of the kids crawling under our store towards our trashcan! I waited for him to reach the can then I called my brother and ran outside! I caught him and took hold of his shirt. The kid was just 9 years old! He kept on saying that he didn't know about any money! And he said that he was just looking for something in the trash. I asked him of course why he would need to crawl just to get to the trashcan! He slipped and he said, "Of course I was going to get the money!" We took him to the immediate authority in our village and we found out that it wasn't the first time he stole something from the residents! Times have really gotten tough. I mean, a 9 year old kid stealing coins! We felt bad because he's just a kid. But if we didn't take him to the authorities, we know he would keep on stealing. They told us that they were taking the kid to social services. It was sad, but it was necessary.