Current Events > 8-Year-Old Finds Wallet With $1,700, and Returns It to Mugging Victim

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An 8-year-old upstate New York boy is being applauded after finding a crime victims cash-filled wallet in New York City and returning it to the man.

WCBS-TV reports Frankie Burns found a wallet with $1,700 inside on Saturday when he was preparing for a Gaelic football game in the Bronx. The fourth-grader from Washingtonville in Orange County didnt hesitate to bring the wallet to his father.

After using an identification card inside the wallet, the family was able to find its owner. They say the man had recently been released from the hospital after a mugging. The victim had dropped his wallet after the attack and needed the cash for his rent.

Burns says the man gave him $100 for the act of kindness. The boy hes going to buy a pair of soccer cleats with the reward.

http://time.com/money/5027498/8-year-old-finds-wallet-with-1700-and-returns-it-to-mugging-victim/
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Awesome.
How'd the mugger not make off with it initially?
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What a horrible mugger
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