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Former Greer High School PTSA Treasurer Indicted

A former P-T-S-A treasurer was indicted on “breach of trust” charges Tuesday.

Melinda Roberts was arrested in October after Greer High School’s “Parent Teacher Student Association” president filed a complaint with the Greer Police Department. According to the incident report filed on August 13, 2007, President Jill Schneider believed Roberts had used up to $24,000 of the organization’s money for her own use. The incident report says $10,899.45 was unaccounted for and missing. It alleged the money misuse occured between August 2006 and May 2007.

Marcia Barker of the Greenville County Solicitor’s Office confirms Tuesday’s indictment alleges that Roberts was entrusted with more than $5,000 and that she did “feloniously convert and appropriate such property to her own use and purposes, with intent to permanently deprive the owner thereof.”

I think we’d all know if I had that $24,000, because then I’d be halfway SANE.

But only halfway.

We’ve straightened our stockings, checked teeth for spinach, and smelled breath in cupped hands. I think we’re okay. Big thanks as always, to Joelle of Moxie Design Studios, with whom I’ve been working for what seems like centuries. But the good centuries, like the eighteen hundreds in France, or Elizabeth’s Golden Age, whenever that was, and not when they were at war with Spain.

Oh! And before you forget, Mother’s Day is this Sunday!

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