March 2015- Let's start spending part 2

Picking up from the previous post, this takes on the last parts of the March 2015 bank statement documenting Sonya's, the daughter's start of financial abuse towards her mother Carol.

 

There are excuses that could explain this spending. They need food. However, in late March, Carol the mother was still living in the assisted living place, where they provide meals. Also the house Sonya wanted to rent had not been secured, so there is no place where the food from Safeway to go..... except maybe Sonya's fridge. But it is conceivable that she was buying food in preparation for April. Maybe. Then there is the April 1st (April Fool's) Old Navy purchase of $69.60. When we cleaned out Carol's closet upon her death this year in 2018, I did not see any Old Navy clothes. It is possible those clothes were left at the rented house when she escaped her abuser in December 2015 or left in San Jose when Mike, the son, moved her to the DC area.

 

There are plenty of checks. As I mentioned in a previous post, it costs about a quarter each to get a copy from the bank for each check. To figure out if these checks included legitimate spending we would need to spend $3.50 just for the month of March. That's not a lot but Sonya had access to her mother's accounts for over a year. Some of the checks where we did get copies were obviously not signed by Carol. Carol you see has Parkinson's. Some signatures attributed to Carol were signed by her daughter or someone else who did not have Parkinson's But I'll explore that in a later post.

March 2015 shows a start of the whirlwind spending Carol's daughter engaged in that resulted in the destruction of Carol's retirement funds. I don't think Sonya began this with the intent of financially abusing her elderly mother. No one really wants to be an abuser. I can only guess at the mental state of someone who does this. Yes, I'll probably do a post where I guess at what the heck she was thinking.