6-Year-Old Uses Sleeping Mom’s Thumbprint To Buy $250 Worth Of Gifts On Amazon
Sick of trying to be good all year just so Santa will deliver your presents? Well, one sneaky 6-year-old from Maumelle, Arkansas found a clever way around that problem. She simply used her sleeping mom’s thumbprint to access Amazon and buy herself $250 of Christmas presents instead!
Little Ashlynd Howell waited for her mom Bethany to nod off while watching a movie together before embarking upon her crafty scheme. Using her mom’s thumbprint to unlock her phone, she opened the Amazon app and proceeded to buy herself 13 different Pokémon toys. When Bethany saw the order notifications the next day, she thought she’d been hacked until she asked her daughter if she knew anything about it. “Yeah mommy, I was shopping!” said Ashlynd according to the Daily Mail. Her mom was only allowed to return four of the items, but Ashlynd still ended up getting way more for Christmas than Santa intended! (h/t)
6-year-old Ashlynd Howell decided to make her own Christmas extra special this year
She waited for her mom Bethany to fall asleep, then used her thumbprint to buy 13 Pokémon toys valuing $250 on Amazon!
Image credits: tapsmart
When her mom saw the order notifications, she thought she’d been hacked until she asked her daughter if she knew anything about it
“Yeah mommy, I was shopping!” she replied
Bethany was only allowed to return four of the items, but Ashlynd still ended up getting way more for Christmas than Santa intended!
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Share on FacebookThis is not cute or funny. That child needs to be taught what she did was wrong and never to do anything like that again. Encouraging behavior like this will result in her growing up to be a self entitled brat...just what this world has enough of.
She may grow up to be President of the US.... Or a high-paid CEO.
Load More Replies...Also if she waited until mom was asleep to use her thumbprint to unlock her phone she knew it was wrong. Book'em, Danno!
What a scary little girl. O_o Today she gets her mother's fingerprints while sleeping, tomorrow she becomes a badass secret agent.
I find the pictures taken afterwards a bit scary. While I think that the girl was not able to understand the full scope of her actions when ordering, I guess teaching here that it was not right to do it would have been advisable afterwards. This is probably not achieved by taking pictures of all the toys she can keep. On the other hand: incentives for developing a career in IT security have been set!
Load More Replies...Just because the toys can't be returned doesn't mean she should keep them. She shouldn't be rewarded for doing the wrong thing. That's bad training. At the very least, this would have been an opportunity to teach her about children in need and let her donate those toys to charity.
What I find strangest about this case is that the items cannot be returned. Here in Europe, there would be two ways to do that: a) It was ordered online...as a private customer you can return all items within the first two or so weeks, you do not even need to state a reason if they are unspoiled. b) Technically, the six year-old shopped. She is not contractually capable, thereby the shopping is void. There might have been neglient behaviour by the mother; still, the six year old shopped. Thus, the mother might be liable for compensation, but the actual order is void. Is this different under US law?
She got toys from a third party seller on Amazon, which means they couldn't return 6 or 7, but could return 3 or 4 direct purchases.
Load More Replies...I find it hard to believe that the items could not be returned but if that is true posting a smiling child pics and letting her keep the toys is sending her a terrible message. I would have taken all her presents away (except maybe one surprise) frog march her and the toys to the local shelter and make her give them all up. No wonder she is a sneak thief if her mum tells her its ok to steak because hay you can keep 60% so make sure you still big.
I can predict a super mega birthday party for Ashlynd in a few years, threw by the birthday girl herself, and with thousands of people invited via social network. Be caaaaareful, Ashlynd's mom!
I hope the mother did not compliment the little girl after that! She should have been taught that such things are not allowed for little kids to do!
For what you can see in the pictures, I guess she did. Both mom and daughter look very proud, so... more to come from Ashlynd in the future? ;-)
Load More Replies...While I am an advocate of spanking, this would be a great opportunity for a little economics training, she's not too young for it, obviousl
Load More Replies...So... let's reward her bad behaviour by giving her anything that couldn't be returned and putting her in the internet showing her smiling with all the toys she basically connived to get? Sounds about right. This child is old enough to ask "is this something I should be doing" and know the answer is "no". If some of the items couldn't be returned why not teach her a lesson and make her earn them back - or return the other toys that had been purchased for Christmas, since she clearly disregarded them. Better yet, donate them to a child who doesn't have the luxury of having a parent with a touch-Id amazon account capable of spending $250 in one shot.
The girl should of been made to donate all of the toys, to a local organization that gives out free toys to kids whos parents can't afford tobuy any. This mother is disgraceful for making a big show of what her daughter did!
If the mom saw the next day that the order was en route I would have thought she could cancel the order
A criminal in the making ! She should get her a*s beat, not reward her with a story so other kids can read it and do the same ! I would have made her give all those toys to children who would not get toys for Christmas ! Parents are our kids worst enemies by letting them get by. Then we wonder WHY they get in trouble in life ? wow
Give her one of the 9 unreturnable items as her Christmas present for the next 9 years.
She got to keep the toys? No... no... No! Why is this being rewarded?
And she got to keep the toys? No way!! I would have made her donate them. Parents just rewarded her for STEALING!!
Pfffff I would make her give the items to charity.....and nothing for next christmas either
Then she can work in the soup kitchen of the homeless shelter
Load More Replies...Even if. Couldn't return the other 9 toy once the came in the mail i would have opened the order and taken the toys and my child to a children's hospital and had him or her give them away to the sick kids. By doing this I would hopefully be teaching my child that there are consequences for your actions. I would also have santa leave a letter explaining that a gift wouldn't be given this Christmas because of he/she was being greedy. I would also consider returning gifts that i had bought only giving her one gift for Christmas.
ever since i got my kindle fire almost 5 years ago and let my grandchildren play with it I had it password protected so anything that anyone tried to buy anything on Amazon it would have to type my password in. To not password protect it in this day and age is dumb.
When my daughter was 4, she "cleaned" house while I was napping. Just try to visualize. She was so proud.
I guess kids see their parents "magically" order things online with a swipe here and there and think their parents can "magically" make money. Parents, you still have to teach your kids about money and budgeting.
Agreed but it seems parents don't see a need to teach their children that. My nieces lived with me a few years ago and I'd take them out to do fun things often. If they asked to do something special that cost money and I didn't have enough id tell them wed have to wait until payday and after paying bills because I didn't have enough at that time. Pretty reasonable I thought, but their mommy didn't like that. She thought it would worry them if they were told that there wasn't enough money for something fun that week and will have to wait. The twins were 8, an age to understand that you had to work for money. I was shocked that their mom wouldn't take the opportunity to at least inform them of that but than I remembered that this is a mom who is very materialistic, spends about a 1500 dollars at christmas for her 4 girls and well over 300 dollars for birthdays. A mom who went from living at mommies house to boyfriends house so someone was essentially always taking care of them. A mom who has never made her children do chores. Ugh, of course they have turned into major spoiled, entitled butts. So much so that one of them told me recently that if you love someone you'll buy them what they want for birthdays and Christmas. Wtf?!
Load More Replies...If that were my kid, i would have made her give the toys away to kids in need. That may seem like a waste of money but any kid that sneaky doesn't, imo, deserve the toys. Teach her its not okay to do that
My daughter once accidentally ordered several barney videos on Amazon when she was 3. We immediately returned the items and there was no problems returning them. And then I changed my account so you had to put in the password again before submitting an order. I'm surprised they couldn't return the items or cancel the orders.
She is spoiled and this is so stupid why would this girl do such a thing
Her mom thinks it's cute to teach her child to steal. Shameful.
If that were my child she would have had to donate all of her gifts, not only those that she ordered, to children in need.
No no no no no no no no no, I don't think she should have kept ANY of the toys, but it was quite clever of her to buy them all on her own ;)
People here have spoken everything, no need for me to add a thing! Spoiled brat, and mom even worse.. Sorry but this just stinks on staged event, with pictures of her with presents and everything. It makes me wanna puke honestly what would people do for 5 minutes on internet or tv.. Shame on her and her parents especially.. And happy New Year guys wish you the best time ever without Pokรฉmons and idiots like this ๐
This is just rewarding bad behavior, and is a shining example of why children don't respect the value of a dollar :/
I agree she was a spoiled brat. She knows she can get away with anything. For her mother to let her have the stuff. She is an idiot. She should have had to donate the toys personally. Made to do chores around the house to pay for the four she could not return. What is going to happen when this girl gets older, knows she is not going to get what she wants due to it being expensive and buys it again? With someone else's account?
My kid wouldnยดt have gotten **** for christmas. The non returnable items would have gon to charity or somthing.
If she was my daughter I would make her pay for these toys from her allowance even if it's gonna take years , or I wouldn't let her keep the toys . But she is lucky I'm not her mother ๐
There would be no happy,impish grins over this& I'd be taking her and all that loot to a toy drive. She knew it was wrong, why wait 4 a nap?
If my daughter had done this, she would go with me to take the items that couldn't be returned to a homeless shelter or a charity. Absolutely no way would she be allowed to keep them.
Smart Kid, but she should pay for the toys with her OWN money
There was another incident similar to this but the mom donated the stuff to a charity.Maybe this family should learn from them.
How does a kid learn how to buy stuff on the internet using her parent's fingerprint anyway
They watch their parents. Kids pick up things like a sponge. It was very wrong of this little girl to do that and her parents should have taught her a lesson, not reward her for her actions!
Load More Replies...If this story were true, Amazon has no limit on returns. She could have returned all of them. The little girl needs her a*s spanked. Also she should have only gotten 1 present for christmas. The rest should have been donated to a shelter. Mom is defiant not a good mother for bragging about this.
Oh boy, that girl would have returned THEM ALL if that was my kid. I GUARANTEE you, she will do it again.
Why did her mom let her get away with this? Some people might think this is cute, but I think this is VERY annoying.
Her mom should have made her donate the toys. Seeing her next to them with that big grin, she learns nothing
It's lovely to see all the people here talking about this mother should raise HER daughter. "She should get nothing", "Kid's spoiled", blah blah blah, etc, etc, etc. Some parents raise their kids a bit differently than the domination/submissive roles. If her daughter was smart enough to do this, who's to say she's not smart enough to sit down and have a talk about why it's wrong. Just because some people know more ways to deal with their children other than smacking them and taking away all their things, doesn't mean it's wrong. Maybe some commenters' parents should have spent less time grounding them and more time teaching them how to not be a judgmental brat.
This makes me physically angry. One side would want to donate them to sick kids and force her to personally hand them out. But the other side of me wants to keep them for myself and not let the child have them + rub them being mine in her face... this is why I'm not a parent. Hahaha
Lighten up..if this child can think like this i bet her grades are good
Yes, she may have "good grades", but it doesn't change the fact that she stole from her own mother! What does this teach this little girl? It teaches her that what she did is "okay" and may even turn her into a criminal when she is older. This is the problem with parents and kids these days. I'm not saying that all parents are the same, but some parents are not teaching their kids that there are consequences to bad actions to which the kids then think it's "alright" to keep on doing what they're doing, and in the end, we are raising a nation of bratty kids!
Load More Replies...my brothers friend ryan bought 100 dollars worth of pokecoins because he recorded her on his phone when she told her password to her husband. also my friend Nate bought 1700$ worth of clash of clans gems using his moms finger print that he copied
I'm wondering why is no one commenting on the neglect aspect of this? This mother was obviously passed out or so soundly sleeping that she was unable to care for or properly supervise her child. That child did not make that order and look through all of those toys that quickly as deciding took some time. This basically amounts to leaving your child alone. The mother should be glad her telephone was there to entertain the child so that she didn't get into more tragic circumstances. I guess she should be grateful that the child was shopping instead of cooking or some other less safe activity or we would be reading a much worse and horrific post.
Indeed.. but people here just react so strongly (with the arrows) to any questions raised, even when just pointing out the possibilities. I'm surprised more people are not concerned about this, or what the whole incident should teach the kid.
Load More Replies...Some people have an amazingly deep sleep. I am not even able to fall asleep in front of a TV screen (both due to sound and light), but some people obviously can sleep while having their limbs moved around. Yes, without any alcohol involved.
Load More Replies...This is not cute or funny. That child needs to be taught what she did was wrong and never to do anything like that again. Encouraging behavior like this will result in her growing up to be a self entitled brat...just what this world has enough of.
She may grow up to be President of the US.... Or a high-paid CEO.
Load More Replies...Also if she waited until mom was asleep to use her thumbprint to unlock her phone she knew it was wrong. Book'em, Danno!
What a scary little girl. O_o Today she gets her mother's fingerprints while sleeping, tomorrow she becomes a badass secret agent.
I find the pictures taken afterwards a bit scary. While I think that the girl was not able to understand the full scope of her actions when ordering, I guess teaching here that it was not right to do it would have been advisable afterwards. This is probably not achieved by taking pictures of all the toys she can keep. On the other hand: incentives for developing a career in IT security have been set!
Load More Replies...Just because the toys can't be returned doesn't mean she should keep them. She shouldn't be rewarded for doing the wrong thing. That's bad training. At the very least, this would have been an opportunity to teach her about children in need and let her donate those toys to charity.
What I find strangest about this case is that the items cannot be returned. Here in Europe, there would be two ways to do that: a) It was ordered online...as a private customer you can return all items within the first two or so weeks, you do not even need to state a reason if they are unspoiled. b) Technically, the six year-old shopped. She is not contractually capable, thereby the shopping is void. There might have been neglient behaviour by the mother; still, the six year old shopped. Thus, the mother might be liable for compensation, but the actual order is void. Is this different under US law?
She got toys from a third party seller on Amazon, which means they couldn't return 6 or 7, but could return 3 or 4 direct purchases.
Load More Replies...I find it hard to believe that the items could not be returned but if that is true posting a smiling child pics and letting her keep the toys is sending her a terrible message. I would have taken all her presents away (except maybe one surprise) frog march her and the toys to the local shelter and make her give them all up. No wonder she is a sneak thief if her mum tells her its ok to steak because hay you can keep 60% so make sure you still big.
I can predict a super mega birthday party for Ashlynd in a few years, threw by the birthday girl herself, and with thousands of people invited via social network. Be caaaaareful, Ashlynd's mom!
I hope the mother did not compliment the little girl after that! She should have been taught that such things are not allowed for little kids to do!
For what you can see in the pictures, I guess she did. Both mom and daughter look very proud, so... more to come from Ashlynd in the future? ;-)
Load More Replies...While I am an advocate of spanking, this would be a great opportunity for a little economics training, she's not too young for it, obviousl
Load More Replies...So... let's reward her bad behaviour by giving her anything that couldn't be returned and putting her in the internet showing her smiling with all the toys she basically connived to get? Sounds about right. This child is old enough to ask "is this something I should be doing" and know the answer is "no". If some of the items couldn't be returned why not teach her a lesson and make her earn them back - or return the other toys that had been purchased for Christmas, since she clearly disregarded them. Better yet, donate them to a child who doesn't have the luxury of having a parent with a touch-Id amazon account capable of spending $250 in one shot.
The girl should of been made to donate all of the toys, to a local organization that gives out free toys to kids whos parents can't afford tobuy any. This mother is disgraceful for making a big show of what her daughter did!
If the mom saw the next day that the order was en route I would have thought she could cancel the order
A criminal in the making ! She should get her a*s beat, not reward her with a story so other kids can read it and do the same ! I would have made her give all those toys to children who would not get toys for Christmas ! Parents are our kids worst enemies by letting them get by. Then we wonder WHY they get in trouble in life ? wow
Give her one of the 9 unreturnable items as her Christmas present for the next 9 years.
She got to keep the toys? No... no... No! Why is this being rewarded?
And she got to keep the toys? No way!! I would have made her donate them. Parents just rewarded her for STEALING!!
Pfffff I would make her give the items to charity.....and nothing for next christmas either
Then she can work in the soup kitchen of the homeless shelter
Load More Replies...Even if. Couldn't return the other 9 toy once the came in the mail i would have opened the order and taken the toys and my child to a children's hospital and had him or her give them away to the sick kids. By doing this I would hopefully be teaching my child that there are consequences for your actions. I would also have santa leave a letter explaining that a gift wouldn't be given this Christmas because of he/she was being greedy. I would also consider returning gifts that i had bought only giving her one gift for Christmas.
ever since i got my kindle fire almost 5 years ago and let my grandchildren play with it I had it password protected so anything that anyone tried to buy anything on Amazon it would have to type my password in. To not password protect it in this day and age is dumb.
When my daughter was 4, she "cleaned" house while I was napping. Just try to visualize. She was so proud.
I guess kids see their parents "magically" order things online with a swipe here and there and think their parents can "magically" make money. Parents, you still have to teach your kids about money and budgeting.
Agreed but it seems parents don't see a need to teach their children that. My nieces lived with me a few years ago and I'd take them out to do fun things often. If they asked to do something special that cost money and I didn't have enough id tell them wed have to wait until payday and after paying bills because I didn't have enough at that time. Pretty reasonable I thought, but their mommy didn't like that. She thought it would worry them if they were told that there wasn't enough money for something fun that week and will have to wait. The twins were 8, an age to understand that you had to work for money. I was shocked that their mom wouldn't take the opportunity to at least inform them of that but than I remembered that this is a mom who is very materialistic, spends about a 1500 dollars at christmas for her 4 girls and well over 300 dollars for birthdays. A mom who went from living at mommies house to boyfriends house so someone was essentially always taking care of them. A mom who has never made her children do chores. Ugh, of course they have turned into major spoiled, entitled butts. So much so that one of them told me recently that if you love someone you'll buy them what they want for birthdays and Christmas. Wtf?!
Load More Replies...If that were my kid, i would have made her give the toys away to kids in need. That may seem like a waste of money but any kid that sneaky doesn't, imo, deserve the toys. Teach her its not okay to do that
My daughter once accidentally ordered several barney videos on Amazon when she was 3. We immediately returned the items and there was no problems returning them. And then I changed my account so you had to put in the password again before submitting an order. I'm surprised they couldn't return the items or cancel the orders.
She is spoiled and this is so stupid why would this girl do such a thing
Her mom thinks it's cute to teach her child to steal. Shameful.
If that were my child she would have had to donate all of her gifts, not only those that she ordered, to children in need.
No no no no no no no no no, I don't think she should have kept ANY of the toys, but it was quite clever of her to buy them all on her own ;)
People here have spoken everything, no need for me to add a thing! Spoiled brat, and mom even worse.. Sorry but this just stinks on staged event, with pictures of her with presents and everything. It makes me wanna puke honestly what would people do for 5 minutes on internet or tv.. Shame on her and her parents especially.. And happy New Year guys wish you the best time ever without Pokรฉmons and idiots like this ๐
This is just rewarding bad behavior, and is a shining example of why children don't respect the value of a dollar :/
I agree she was a spoiled brat. She knows she can get away with anything. For her mother to let her have the stuff. She is an idiot. She should have had to donate the toys personally. Made to do chores around the house to pay for the four she could not return. What is going to happen when this girl gets older, knows she is not going to get what she wants due to it being expensive and buys it again? With someone else's account?
My kid wouldnยดt have gotten **** for christmas. The non returnable items would have gon to charity or somthing.
If she was my daughter I would make her pay for these toys from her allowance even if it's gonna take years , or I wouldn't let her keep the toys . But she is lucky I'm not her mother ๐
There would be no happy,impish grins over this& I'd be taking her and all that loot to a toy drive. She knew it was wrong, why wait 4 a nap?
If my daughter had done this, she would go with me to take the items that couldn't be returned to a homeless shelter or a charity. Absolutely no way would she be allowed to keep them.
Smart Kid, but she should pay for the toys with her OWN money
There was another incident similar to this but the mom donated the stuff to a charity.Maybe this family should learn from them.
How does a kid learn how to buy stuff on the internet using her parent's fingerprint anyway
They watch their parents. Kids pick up things like a sponge. It was very wrong of this little girl to do that and her parents should have taught her a lesson, not reward her for her actions!
Load More Replies...If this story were true, Amazon has no limit on returns. She could have returned all of them. The little girl needs her a*s spanked. Also she should have only gotten 1 present for christmas. The rest should have been donated to a shelter. Mom is defiant not a good mother for bragging about this.
Oh boy, that girl would have returned THEM ALL if that was my kid. I GUARANTEE you, she will do it again.
Why did her mom let her get away with this? Some people might think this is cute, but I think this is VERY annoying.
Her mom should have made her donate the toys. Seeing her next to them with that big grin, she learns nothing
It's lovely to see all the people here talking about this mother should raise HER daughter. "She should get nothing", "Kid's spoiled", blah blah blah, etc, etc, etc. Some parents raise their kids a bit differently than the domination/submissive roles. If her daughter was smart enough to do this, who's to say she's not smart enough to sit down and have a talk about why it's wrong. Just because some people know more ways to deal with their children other than smacking them and taking away all their things, doesn't mean it's wrong. Maybe some commenters' parents should have spent less time grounding them and more time teaching them how to not be a judgmental brat.
This makes me physically angry. One side would want to donate them to sick kids and force her to personally hand them out. But the other side of me wants to keep them for myself and not let the child have them + rub them being mine in her face... this is why I'm not a parent. Hahaha
Lighten up..if this child can think like this i bet her grades are good
Yes, she may have "good grades", but it doesn't change the fact that she stole from her own mother! What does this teach this little girl? It teaches her that what she did is "okay" and may even turn her into a criminal when she is older. This is the problem with parents and kids these days. I'm not saying that all parents are the same, but some parents are not teaching their kids that there are consequences to bad actions to which the kids then think it's "alright" to keep on doing what they're doing, and in the end, we are raising a nation of bratty kids!
Load More Replies...my brothers friend ryan bought 100 dollars worth of pokecoins because he recorded her on his phone when she told her password to her husband. also my friend Nate bought 1700$ worth of clash of clans gems using his moms finger print that he copied
I'm wondering why is no one commenting on the neglect aspect of this? This mother was obviously passed out or so soundly sleeping that she was unable to care for or properly supervise her child. That child did not make that order and look through all of those toys that quickly as deciding took some time. This basically amounts to leaving your child alone. The mother should be glad her telephone was there to entertain the child so that she didn't get into more tragic circumstances. I guess she should be grateful that the child was shopping instead of cooking or some other less safe activity or we would be reading a much worse and horrific post.
Indeed.. but people here just react so strongly (with the arrows) to any questions raised, even when just pointing out the possibilities. I'm surprised more people are not concerned about this, or what the whole incident should teach the kid.
Load More Replies...Some people have an amazingly deep sleep. I am not even able to fall asleep in front of a TV screen (both due to sound and light), but some people obviously can sleep while having their limbs moved around. Yes, without any alcohol involved.
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