On July 30 a mother was caught shoplifting in a Charleston, West Virginia K-Mart. The woman was with her two kids at the time, a 7 or 8-year-old girl and 2-year-old still in diapers. The store's loss prevention department called police and shortly thereafter officers Ryan Willard and Duane Fields responded. This all seems like a pretty standard reaction to someone being caught shoplifting, but what makes this an exceptional case is the kindness and sensitivity of the responding officers. Willard and Duane went out of their way to help the shoplifting mom. Why? Because their hearts are in the right place.
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When 24-year-old Willard and 34-year-old Fields found out what the mother was caught stealing, they ended up buying rash cream, diapers, and and clothing for her children. Willard told the Charleston Daily Mail,
She didn't take anything to benefit herself. She had only taken baby diapers, rash cream and some clothes for her children, 'cause she said she was going through kind of a rough divorce and her husband wasn't really helping out.
The woman was still fined $50 because K-Mart did not drop the charges and I'm not saying they should have, they are well within their rights, but I'm so happy that these two officers, these two gentlemen, these two compassionate human beings showed her some kindness and understanding.
I'm am so moved by their kindness that I may or may not be crying. You'll never know, but please hand me a tissue. The line from one of my all-time favorite movies, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, keeps reverberating in my head, "So shines a good deed in a weary world."
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