Stolen future

By Bridget Brady
Cranbourne resident Shimona Cameron, 29, was devastated to find that her bag containing textbooks and an almost- finished assignment had been stolen from her car, parked at her house on the weekend.
Ms Cameron has an assignment due tomorrow and an exam next Wednesday, and said she had been in tears, worried she would not pass her Advanced Diploma of Accounting subjects.
She had done the majority of the work for her assignment by hand and just needed to type it out, but had nothing saved on a computer.
“I honestly don’t know what I’m going to do because that is months of work in there,” Ms Cameron said.
“It’s all the things the teachers have said and things I have written down to help me. I’ve worked so hard, I just want to make a better life for my family.”
Two textbooks worth about $50 each, a scientific calculator and a USB stick were also inside the black satchel bag.
Ms Cameron said the books and notes would be useless to anyone else, and hoped whoever stole her bag, which was given to her as a gift, could return it to police.
“I would have preferred if they stole the radio or money. It’s replaceable. My work is useless to anybody but me.”
Ms Cameron said she could not do her exam next week without her scientific calculator.
“And there is an exercise book in there that has ratios that I spent hours working on.
Ms Cameron urged the person who stole the bag, or anyone who had come across it, to hand it in to the Cranbourne Police Station.