Child drains family’s life savings by buying $64,000 worth of mobile games and add-ons

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The mother then checked her bank account and found that she only had seven cents to her name.

My wallet hurts merely learning this.

Gong then discovered that from January to May, her child had spent around $16,800 (£8,981) buying game accounts and almost $30,000 (£16,038) on in-game purchases.

The teen also began transferring money to around 10 friends who wanted to purchase the game, bringing the total cost to approximately $64,000.

"I never thought a 13-year-old girl could do this," Gong told the outlet.

"I'm in a daze; my head feels like it's going to explode."

The child told the outlet that although she knew the gaming account was linked to her mother’s card, she didn’t know how much she was spending or where the money was coming from.

"If I didn't send it to them, they would bother me all day. If I told the teacher, I was afraid that the teacher would tell my parents and that my parents would be angry," she said.

The teen even went as far as to delete transaction records so her parents wouldn’t discover her purchases.

Gong revealed she has reached out to a few payment platforms but is yet to be promised a refund.

It comes after a 10-year-old child made around AUD $4,676 (£2,500) worth of Roblox purchases from her mother's account.

Georgina Munday of Denbighshire has warned other parents to 'be vigilant' regarding their children's online activity.

Munday said her daughter, who has autism, had been playing on her tablet for longer recently due to being off school after struggling in mainstream education.

She added: "We'd just seen hundreds of transactions, these payment confirmations, so then the panic set in - oh my gosh, whose card is this on?"

Once the mother realised it was her daughter’s spendings, she called her bank, which initially refused a refund.

"I cried - it was just a relief, a weight off my shoulders," she said.