A 22-year-old woman who stole $913 from a children’s toy store to pay for her daughter’s nursery fees has been sentenced to two years’ probation.Aeisha Place admitted in Magistrates’ Court that she took cash belonging to Daisy & Mac in April.Place was caught on the store’s CCTV footage.During a police interview she said she needed the money to pay for her daughter’s nursery fees.Senior Magistrate Archibald Warner said a social inquiry report showed Place was “delusional”.“You think it’s all right to just apologise and go on and do the same things over again and this behaviour is indicative of a pattern. It would seem if there is a pattern several things are contributing to it, your psychiatric state, your social history and all these matters.”He said the most disturbing thing was “that because of a lot of these matters you are a difficult person to handle and you do not like complying with authority”.Mr Warner said Place had lied in an earlier court appearance that she had reimbursed Daisy & Mac owner Dawn Zuill.“You said you had repaid the money you had stolen and that you had some kind of receipt to that effect.“You in fact forged your own receipt, so you not only committed the offence of stealing the money but when it was looked to you to pay back the money you turn around again and tell lies about it.”“So madam you have a real problem it seems.”The magistrate told Place this was an opportunity for her to try and get her act together.He urged her to stop thinking she could “fool everybody or con your way around the place”.The court heard that Antoinette White, a Daisy & Mac staff member, had placed money in an envelope and secured it before leaving the store on April 25.Three days later Ms White noticed the envelope containing the money was torn and the cash was missing. She reported the matter to the owner, Mrs Zuill, who examined the store’s CCTV footage.Mrs Zuill contacted police and Place was arrested.Mr Warner handed Place a period of probation and imposed several conditions she must reimburse the store, submit to psychiatric assessment and adhere to mental health treatment.She must also maintain employment, refrain from contact with bad company and take part in other rehabilitation services proposed by the Department of Court Services.