My daughter was caught taking some chocolate bars without paying. The store owner said he won't lay charges but wants to meet with us to talk. What charges could she have faced?

Your daughter could have been charged with the crime of theft. The Canadian Criminal Code defines theft as taking the property of someone else with the intent to take it away temporarily or permanently from its rightful owner.

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April 1997

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