Amanda Rados convicted after shoplifting using a covered pram to steal baby formula and other goods

A woman’s horror shoplifting record has been laid bare in court including thousands of dollars of baby formula, toothbrushes and beauty products.

A woman who is banned from every Myer store in NSW has faced court for a further shoplifting spree around western Sydney.

Mother of three Amanda Joan Rados appeared before Penrith Local Court for 17 offences including: shoplifting, larceny, driving while disqualified, possessing a prohibited drug, bringing a prohibited drug into place of detention and driving while licence cancelled.

Amanda Joan Rados outside Penrith Local Court.

Rados has stolen from Woolworths in Penrith and Minto and Coles in Rouse Hill, Mt Annan and Harrington Park.

On the evening of July 17 2018, Rados went to Minto Woolworths with her partner and they placed vitamins, L’Oreal laser day cream, 2 Olay Regenerist creams and 11 Karicare gold formulas into the pram and a Big W bag.

The goods totalled $846.35.

About 5:15pm On August 6, 2020, Rados, while pushing a pram, went to Mt Annan Coles with an unknown woman.

She placed 39 tins of baby formula and 19 electric toothbrushes in the pram seat, under the blanket.

She then walked to the self-serve checkout and paid for a $1 can of soup with cash.

The stolen property came to a value of $2042.75.

Rados also stole goods from supermarkets on multiple other occasions including in February 2020 at Penrith Westfield Woolworths.

When approached by police, she said “I took the formula for a friend and to get some cash, I was so stupid,” according to court documents.

She was also banned from all premises owned by Myer in NSW after she took two pairs of Tommy Hilfiger shorts and tried to leave without paying in Liverpool on February 28, 2019.

Rados has also frequently been pulled over while her licence is suspended or cancelled, on some occasions having heroin in her car, according to court documents.

While visiting an inmate at Lithgow correctional centre, on October 27, 2019, Rados had heroin in her car, telling an officer that it was “for personal use” and that she didn’t intend to take it into the prison but had forgotten, according to court documents.

Despite facing court for a lengthy list of offences, the 37-year-old escaped a jail sentence after agreeing to pay fines and expressing her remorse.

Amanda Rados walked out of court with fines after expressing remorse before the court.

“I’m sorry for the adjournments, I had cancer but I’m better now and started working three weeks ago,” she said.

“I’ve done a full 180 and I don’t want to go back to jail, I spent my birthday there in 2020 and it was terrible.”

Magistrate David O’Neil told the Werrington woman that if she kept reoffending, she’d go back to jail.

“There are a ridiculous number of orders in place and we will deal with them by way of fines. There will also be a corrections order in place for dishonesty,” the magistrate said.

Rados was convicted of six counts of shoplifting, two counts of shoplifting, three counts of driving while disqualified, two counts of driving while licence cancelled, three counts of possess prohibited drug and one count of bringing a prohibited drug into a place of detention.

She was fined $5700 and was sentenced to a 15 month community correction order starting in January 2022.