Assalamu alaikum warahmatullah!
I am so sorry sister hayat84 and brother Frank for your losses. It hurts twice as much when the people who are supposed to care for you, turn on you.
I have been robbed off my belongings many times, but the last two times were as follows:
Two pairs of wrist watches (as a gift from someone for someone else) were stolen from my luggage on my way from Toronto, Canada to Manchester, UK. I don't know who stole them, but I found my suitcase wide open on the rotating belt at the baggage collection point.
Another incident was when I parcelled two pairs of jeans to my brother in Italy which he never received. Unfortunately, I did not realise that I had not used the secure delivery serivce.
My worst experience was at the age of 11 when I accompanied my father for food shopping on the day of my brother's birth. My family was extremely poor and my father spent his last cash generously on food items in a frontier city of Pakistan (where we were living as refugees due to Russian invasion of Afghanistan). To cut the story short, my father wanted to see one of his work-mates after the shopping who was on the third floor of a building and as my father did not want to carry all that load up the stairs (there were no lifts in most of the buildings those days in that city) he entursted me to look after the luggage for a few minutes downstairs. One man came and sat next to me and started asking questions. I was naive and not used to city life. He gave me 1 Rupee to go and buy him a cigarrette and he said he would look after our luggage. As i was a good!! boy
-) ) I went across the road to buy him a cigarrette. When I came back within two minutes you can imagine what I found. Neither the man nor our shopping. I was heartbroken, sad and embarrassed and worst of all, I felt really sorry for my father and the family. But when my father saw how shocked I was, he comforted me and did not even blame me.
My apologies for a long post. May Alla protect all innocent and vulnerable people from the transgression of the oppressors and grant the wronged ones Ajran Azeem (great reward). Ameen.