CHARITY: NJ teen gets clothes to needy, then someone steals all of hers
Friends and family are rallying to help a South Jersey teen whose charity donates clothing to the needy — but whose own luggage was stolen from the back of her mom’s SUV.
Neighbor Lisa Sibley immediately created a GoFundMe page to help replace what 18-year-old Katelyn Darrow called her “entire existence” inside three suitcases packed for her flight from Philadelphia to California, where she is attending college.
Her original flight was canceled and the fully packed car sat all night in the driveway of her Pitman home, according to a post by the Angels of God Clothing Closet on its Facebook page. Darrow founded the group about six years ago.
The next morning, Darrow found the back window smashed and the suitcases gone, Katelyn’s mother, Elissa Darrow, wrote on the Facebook page.
“Katelyn’s suitcases and a box we were going to mail were all stolen. Everything she was taking to college gone,” Elissa Darrow wrote. The items included textbooks, bed sheets, a camera and other personal items
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