A teenager employed to help with meals and the showering of a woman with Parkinson's disease has instead used her position to steal cash.
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Tahlia Blom readily admitted her crime to police after she was caught-out by the North Albury victim's son.
She told police she took several hundred dollars to pay for car repairs and food.
The now 20-year-old pleaded guilty when she fronted Albury Local Court this week on a single charge of larceny.
Blom, who was 19 at the time of the theft, won't find out her fate until she has to re-appear on May 31 after magistrate Rodney Brender ordered the preparation of a sentencing assessment report.
The victim was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease about seven years ago.
The court was told it was the woman's son who organised a carer, Blom, through the home care and assistance franchise Right at Home, for an hour in the morning and the same in the evening.
The woman began to suspect money had been taken from her purse, though her son initially was sceptical.
But on February 1 she told him how two $100 notes had gone missing.
The son suspected Blom, so got his mother to put 10 $50 notes in her purse.
It was after Blom completed her duties the next morning and left the house that he checked the purse and discovered four $50 notes missing.
He then went to the drawer of a lounge room coffee table where he knew his mother kept about $2000 in old medication boxes.
He counted out $1400.
The son immediately notified Right at Home's manager, who stood down Blom pending an internal inquiry.
Blom confessed to police on February 15 that she had taken about $400 in cash.
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