In America, a nun of the Catholic Church confessed to stealing $ 130,000 from two churches in New York. Money, 68-year-old Mary-Ann Rapp lost in a casino. At the trial, the nun said that she had stolen church funds for five years to gamble. Rapp was arrested at the end of last year, after an audit, which recorded a lack of money in church funds. In the worst case for a nun, she will spend six months in jail. In addition, the court is likely to oblige Rapp to indemnify.
The Mary Ann Rapp incident is far from the first such incident in the United States. Two years ago, Maria Thornton, a 65-year-old nun who robbed a Christian college for almost ten years where she worked as a financial director, appeared before the district court. In total, a gambling nun appropriated $ 850 thousand. Thornton was addicted to gambling and regularly played in Atlantic City casinos. For one visit, she lost $ 5 thousand. At the trial, the nun repented and stated that she had undergone a rehabilitation course and got rid of the addiction. The judge considered that God's judgment would be worse for Mary Thornton and decided not to send her to jail.
Fortunately, stories happened that ended quite happily. In 2009, a young priest, Andrew Trapp, who served in the Catholic parish of St. Michael (South Carolina), won $ 100,000 in poker and donated his prize to the temple fund for his parishioners.
