Girl’s Santa gift stolen
Devastated Jessica Peoples, 7, was left in tears when dad Michael broke the news that her pride and joy, a red Challenger buggy, had been stolen from her Co Donegal home this week. The thieves crept into Jessica’s back garden at The Maples, Lismonaghan in Letterkenny, and took the buggy on Sunday, January 2.
Dad Michael said he was also in tears having to waken his daughter the next morning and tell his daughter her present, which was even fitted with pink JESSICA 1 licence plates, was gone.
“The tears welled up in her eyes and she ran to the window. She said to me ‘People can’t take Santa’s presents away’.
“I was nearly in tears myself looking at her little face. Whoever took it knew well it was a present but obviously didn’t care.
“How they can do something like this to a child is beyond me. It must have taken a couple of men to get it out of the garden as my jeep was blocking it in,” he said.
Michael revealed how Jessica couldn’t stop playing with the buggy, which cost €1,800, since she got it on Christmas morning.
“She is already going around the house at night with a little torch making sure everything is locked up. That’s a terrible way for a seven-year-old to be thinking already.
“I only hope that this doesn’t affect her down the line,” he said.
In the meantime Michael has also offer a cash reward for anyone who may know where little Jessica’s Christmas present is.
“If people are reading this and have been offered such a red Challenger buggy for sale cheaply, then I would ask them to get in touch with me or the gardaí.”
