Heather Johnston has been charged with with the "laughing bankrobber" caper that travelled across the news last week. And her mother is mortified - "she's a sweet girl with a big heart" she says. Her lawyer adds "She's a frightened young kid who finds herself in the eyes of a media whirlwind that she never anticipated."

As a parent, my heart went out to them. A young girl wrongly accused, or caught in a prank gone wrong.

Err, until I read that she confessed to the whole thing and named her co-conspirators, who include convicted felons. And that they caught her after a spending spree at Gucci. After a car chase. With marijuana and ecstacy on her, no less. And that she admitted to being a drug dealer. Oh, and then there's the comments from her surprised workmates at Shooter Alley, a strip club where she grinds on the afternoon shift.

So, to recap, a drug-dealing stripper, who robs banks, runs from the cops, and associates with convicts.

A sweet girl, my ass.