Thou Shalt Not Deposit Thy Church Members' Checks Into Thine Own Account

I'm sure that would have been one of the commandments if Moses had a checking account:

A former church secretary was sentenced Friday to five years in prison and ordered to pay more than $200,000 in restitution as punishment for stealing church donations, county prosecutors said.

Crystina Renee Bock, 38, a former financial secretary for Compass Bible Church in Aliso Viejo, pleaded guilty in March to 62 felony counts of grand theft, according to the Orange County District Attorney's office.

Bock, who resides in Aliso Viejo, worked part-time at the church and prepared its deposits each week, prosecutors said. She updated the church's financial records and sent tax statements to congregants who donated money, they added.

She took 440 congregants' donation checks and deposited them into her personal account between June 2005 and September 2008, prosecutors said.

Church officials discovered the theft in September 2008 and alerted police, they added.

I used to see this every now and then during my years in the church insurance business. If the policy at Compass had limits like the ones I saw most of the time, they took a big hit because they were probably only insured for maybe $25,000 of that loss.