A New Jersey Mom Was Accused Of Shoplifting Yogurt With A Fake Baby At Aldi

A mom was accused of using a fake baby to steal yogurt from an Aldi, and now her Facebook post about the experience is going viral.

Patricia Larkin posted a photo of herself carrying her 8-week-old baby in Aldi on the Lacey Township Chatter Facebook page . She wrote: "Well, I dont usually do 'To the person who' posts, but this one has me cracking up, so here we go. To the lady who told the cashier at Aldi that she thought I had a fake baby and was trying to smuggle yogurts out of the store 1) My baby is 100% real. 2 Yogurts are like $.25 at Aldi. 3. Im lactose intolerant and dont consume any dairy at all. Thank you for the laugh, though. I really needed it because I was up all night tending to my (again, 100% real) baby. ."

At the store, Larkin was stocking up on yogurt and noticed a woman watching her. "I was wearing my 8-week-old daughter in a carrier and she made a comment like, 'Mom life, huh?'" Larkin told Today . "I smiled. I didn't think anything of it."

As for the shoplifting accusation, "I thought it was a straight-up joke," Larkin told Women's Health. "I didn't think that anybody would actually mistake my baby for a doll." She added that she and the cashier laughed about it afterward.

"It was clear that she was in fact serious," Larkin continued. Her accuser, a woman named Aileen Krupa, saw the Facebook post and responded, "It was me and I am not ashamed to say so. The baby was sleeping the entire time and was like a dead weight in her arms." Krupa added that she works in retail where shoplifters often use children, so it seemed like suspicious activity.

Since Larkin wrote the now-viral Facebook post, it has received more than 1,400 reactions, 367 comments, and has been shared more than 100 times.