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The mother of an Ottawa golf star has been charged with theft after allegedly stealing thousands of dollars from the public elementary school where she worked.

Ottawa police fraud detectives have charged Kathleen St-Germain, 45, with one count of theft over $5,000 after being tipped off to the alleged crime by the school board.

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In the fall of 2014, the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board conducted an internal review and found that revenues typically expected were missing in the 2013-2014 school year at Roberta Bondar Public School, on Lorry Greenberg Drive in the city’s south end.

The board questioned staff, police said, and St-Germain, a school office administrator who was suspected of taking the money, didn’t return to work.

The school board then filed a complaint to police. St-Germain was charged on Wednesday.

St-Germain is the mother of golfer Grace St-Germain, a member of the Golf Canada national women’s amateur team.