A Sudbury bookkeeper who stole more than $90,000 from the grocery store where she worked was spared a jail sentence Wednesday, due in large part to the fact she repaid all the missing money.
Kim Sheppard, also known as Kim Smith, was given a one-year conditional sentence of house arrest after pleading guilty to defrauding her employer.
Sheppard, 45, was charged last July with forgery and fraud after an investigation into missing money from the Sudbury grocery store where she worked.
Sheppard stole the money by falsifying documents over a 21-month period between March 2001 and December 2002.
The store?s owner began an investigation after finding a falsified cheque for more than $6,000 on a store shelf.
Sheppard was fired from her job and admitted to police, following an investigation, she was responsible for stealing the money.
Justice Randall Lalande said the biggest reason he accepted the joint submission was because Sheppard had repaid all of the money she stole.
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