Snowman, Santa stolen from Ports. home

PORTSMOUTH, Va. - Francis Binion struggles everyday to provide her 7-year-old granddaughter with a happy, normal childhood. And with a lot of penny-pinching and sacrificing, Binion gave the child a festively decorated home for the holidays. But a humbug-burglar took it all away.

Binion says someone stole a large blow-up snowman and Santa from her porch during the night while they slept. She had to break the news to her granddaughter when she came home from school Thursday afternoon.

"We have no decorations. This is it," said Binion pointing to the two empty boxes the snowman and Santa came in. "We don't have a lot. We're just average people and with the economy the way it is I can't afford to go out and buy anything else. This is it for us, this is it."

Binion, who lives in the Cavalier Manor section of Portsmouth, is raising her granddaughter, Chanel, while the child's mother attends school in Maryland. Binion filed a police report, but cases like these are very hard to solve.

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