This is the story of Mary Margaret Kreuper who admittedly stole $835,000 from a Torrance elementary school to fund her gambling habit.

Who is Sister Mary Margaret Kreuper?

Margaret Kreuper is a 80-year-old Los Angeles native. She retired in 2018 from the position of principal at St. James Catholic School in the LA suburb of Torrance, about 20 miles outside downtown Los Angeles. She became principal at St. James in 1990. Kreuper took her vow of poverty when she was 18 years old and spent the next 59 years of her life dedicated to the Catholic church. Kreuper was “one heck of a teacher” during her years as a nun, according to the U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II. But somewhere along the way, she went completely astray.

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