A WOMAN has been jailed after she robbed shops in Healesville and Coldstream as part of a Black Saturday thieving spree.
Belinda Ronaldson, 36, of Currawa Drive, Boronia, will spend at least six months behind bars for her “opportunistic” and “despicable” behaviour of stealing money that was meant for bushfire victims, the Royal Children’s Hospital and even a 14-year-old cancer patient.
Ronaldson pleaded guilty in the Ringwood Magistrates’ Court to more than 30 charges of theft, including stealing a charity tin with $260 cash from Healesville Bakers Delight on 22 February 2009.
The court heard last Wednesday (7 July) that on several occasions she used a pram containing her infant child to conceal liquor from shop staff.
She was also pregnant with her fifth child at the time.
In sentencing, Magistrate Leonard Brear said: “A person with your history should not expect leniency where you used a child for these offences and then plead not to be taken away from the child.”
Ronaldson also stole three bottles of spirits from Coldstream IGA en route to Healesville, and returned later the same day and stole another three bottles.
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