A few more facts for you guys to chew on:
Mom and dad were divorced when the kid was 4 or 5. Mom's been a single parent until about a year ago when she remarried. Stepdad loves his stepdtr but is pretty level headed.
Mom impresses me as one of those women who feels like you should get whatever you can from men, so I suspect when natural dad gave the kid his credit card she encouraged her to get whatever you can from him. Mom does work in a professional posiiton so she ain't hurting.
I question mom about the kids designer clothing obsession. Says she does a lot of bargain shopping on ebay/internet and can find really good deals. Mom says her house is like a UPS distribution center because deliveries come 3-4 times a week.
This piques my interest...I accompany mom/stepdad home as they tell me she received some packages that day. We open them and its a return item from one of the kid's ebay customers. From that package, I'm able to hack into kid's ebay account.
BOOM! I discover 280 transactions in the last year
I immediately jump to the conclusion the kid's making a pile of money selling stolen goods and we have a bigger problem than just this incident. What I find on further investigation is that this kid is a marketing genius. HeR ebay site is very well done, and I'm able to track virtually all of her sales as being items she bought on ebay for a song and flipped for profits. And she's using those profits to fund buying her own clothes on ebay. For example, i find where she purchased a bulk lot of 10 necklaces for which she paid $70 and was selling them individually for $40-55 EACH.
mORE TO COME....