The mother of a child with a rare cancer is scrambling to replace his chemotherapy medicine after someone swiped it right off the front porch of their home in Summerlin, Nevada.

The sight is so familiar it’s almost a suburban cliché. We've even given these common package thieves a catchy nickname: porch pirates. But this one is particularly sinister to Stacy Shavinsky.

“It just happened that this time it wasn't a shirt or pair of shoes,” said Shavinsky. “It happened to be something that we desperately needed.”

Her 14-year-old son Gage has a rare form of cancer called systemic mastocytosis.

Insurance doesn't cover the total cost of $40 thousand a month because it’s not typically given to someone his age.

"I had to do a lot of begging and pleading, and I had to apply for financial assistance,” said Shavinsky. “We went to Salt Lake City and Los Angeles to get second opinions so we have done a lot of work to make sure this medication would be beneficial for him."

The alleged thief should be easy to identify. He's wearing a bright red plaid shirt and a Montreal Expos ball cap and captured on their doorbell camera.

But it’s the callous casualness of it all that really irked Shavinsky and the more than a thousand people who saw the video on Facebook and shared it.