Girl scouts have cookie money swiped, police save the day

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    Cobb County (WGCL) — Cobb county police officers stepped in to save the day after girl scouts were robbed of their cookie money. It happened on Friday outside of a Mableton Kroger.

“I was really upset, and I was like, ‘how could someone do this, especially to girls my age?’” asked 13-year-old Haley Rolnick.

Haley has been a girl scout for nine years.

“It’s a lot of fun and I get to meet a lot of a lot of nice and interesting people,” she told CBS46 reporter Ashley Thompson.

Haley and her troop quickly learned that not all people mean well.

Police said on Friday, a girl scout from the troop was with her grandmother selling cookies outside of the Kroger. The grandmother went inside the store to get plastic bags. Police said when she returned to the table, the money bag, with 175 dollars in it, was gone. Neither she nor her granddaughter saw anyone take off with it.

“That’s the shame of it,” said troop leader and Haley’s mom, Angela Rolnick. “You took away from girls really working very hard.”

Rolnick sees it as a lesson for the troop, especially the scout who was there.

“She’s upset,” she explained. “She doesn’t understand why somebody would do it. It makes her a little nervous and we’ve talked about it and said unfortunately this is the reality of the world. There’s bad people everywhere you go, and you can’t control that.”

But there are good people, like two Cobb County police officers who bought 16 boxes of cookies to make up for the theft.

“Cobb County was wonderful to her,” Rolnick said. “They were comforting to her. They sent the police officers to purchase for other members of the police department who had heard, which was great. It boosted her because at that moment, she just wanted to go home.”

If you’d like to buy cookies from this troop, email troop14392@gmail.com

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