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‘Betrayed’: Dunedin rest-home worker used elderly residents’ bank cards for online shopping

$Roimata Pekepo was sentenced to four months\\' community detention, nine months\\' supervision and ordered to pay back the money she stole from rest home residents and workers. Photo: Staff photographer$

$Roimata Pekepo was sentenced to four months\\' community detention, nine months\\' supervision and ordered to pay back the money she stole from rest home residents and workers. Photo: Staff photographer$

Roimata Pekepo was sentenced to four months' community detention, nine months' supervision and ordered to pay back the money she stole from rest home residents and workers. Photo: Staff photographer

Felicity DearReporter

Thursday, October 22, 2026

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