7-Eleven owner shows shoplifter compassion after finding out why he's stealing

When the owner of a 7-Eleven in Toledo, Ohio, learned that a young shoplifter was stealing in order to feed his family, he did something unexpected.

Jay Singh noticed the teenager was acting suspiciously, and told an employee to call the police. Singh confronted the teen, and asked him why he was stealing. "He said, 'I'm hungry. I'm stealing it for myself and my younger brother,'" Singh told CBS News. "I said, 'You need food? I'll give you food. That's not a problem.'"

Singh filled up a bag for the teenager, and told officers when they arrived that everything was fine. "He's a young kid," Singh said. "That will go on his record that he was a thief. He cannot do anything in his life. He will not get a good job. This will not solve his hunger problem." Singh said in Indian culture, it's important to feed a person when they are hungry, and he felt it was his duty to help.

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