A Kansas mom thought she was going to jail when she was caught stealing at Walmart. But what happened next left her in tears. 
 
 Sarah Robinson said she was running out of diapers for her 2-year-old twin daughters when she walked into Walmart in Roeland Park, Kansas, on July 6. 
 
 "I was just going to potty-train them, but I didn't have a place for them to bathe," Robinson, of Kansas City, Kansas, told ABC News. "I had lost my house and all of our belongings, and I don't have a job." 
 
 Robinson has been struggling to make ends meet since the tragic death of her husband in 2012. She and her daughters, 15-year-old Emily, 13-year-old Sophia, 12-year-old Angelina, 4-year-old Miley and twins Becky and Bella, spent most of their time in their car, from which all of their possessions had recently been stolen, Robinson said. 
 
 "So I went to Walmart, grabbed clothes, shoes, diapers, wipes, and I just walked out, but they caught me," said Robinson. 
 
 When Roeland Park police officer Mark Engravalle arrived, he noticed that some of the children with Robinson were barefoot and had dirty feet. 
 
 "He noticed [what she stole] were necessities like diapers, shoes for the kids, some clothing," Roeland Park public information officer John Demoss told ABC News. "He asked her what the situation was, and she broke down crying." 
 
 "My heart just dropped. I didn't know what to say or do. It was horrible. I thought I was going to jail," said Robinson. 
 
 After releasing Robinson with a citation for misdemeanor theft, Engravalle went back inside the store with her children and bought diapers, baby wipes and clothes for the children. He even let the girls pick out their own shoes. 
 
 "The officer had two children of his own, and he thought of his two kids," Demoss said. "He thought it was the right thing to do." 
 
 "He couldn't have been nicer to my girls," Robinson said. "And then I got a call the next day saying they wanted to help us further and help us get a place to live." 
 
 Since the incident, there has been an outpouring of support from the community for Robinson and her daughters. 
 
 Demoss said the police department has been inundated with calls and people visiting the station asking how they can help. Until the police department can get an account set up at a local bank, they are accepting donations on Robinson's behalf, and tomorrow they will be having an event where people can drop by the station and bring donations for the family. 
 
 "I'm so appreciative. I'm embarrassed that I was stealing, but it couldn't go to more deserving girls," Robinson said. 
 
 Robinson said she and her daughters have a place to stay until Sunday and will need to find a new home after that. She's also looking for a job in office work. 
 
 "I'm bilingual. I speak English and Spanish, and I'm good with computers," she said. "I just want to have a place for my girls." 
 
 Demoss said the community has also offered to support officer Engravalle, but Engravalle instead asked that people donate to Robinson or to a good cause. 
 
 "There isn't enough words in the world to thank him enough," Robinson said. "Me and my girls are indebted to him forever." ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video 
 
 ROELAND PARK, Kan. — Sarah Robinson says that she'll do anything for her six kids. 
 
 So when things got so desperate that she turned to shoplifting to provide diapers, baby wipes and shoes for her children, she says she had to do it for her family—and she was almost immediately caught. But thanks to a kind-hearted Roeland Park Police officer, her family still got the supplies they needed. 
 
 "It was humiliating that I could be at a point where I would do something like that," said Robinson. She says that she walked into the Walmart off Roe Boulevard in Roeland Park with her daughters, and filled a cart with the essentials like diapers, baby wipes and shoes for her girls. 
 
 The items totaled around $300. 
 
 "The whole time I was telling them, it`s not what you`re supposed to do," said Robinson. "I`m not a bad mom, just bad actions." 
 
 But Robinson never made it out of the store. 
 
 "What she did was wrong and against the law, but her heart was in the right place with wanting to help to take care of her children," said Roeland Park Police Officer Mark Engravalle. 
 
 After talking with Robinson, Engravalle, a father of two, noticed some of her kids were walking around barefoot. He asked Robinson’s oldest daughter to grab some shoes so that he could pay for them, and also the diapers and wipes. 
 
 “He’s greatly appreciated from all of us. Greatly appreciated we didn’t go to jail and that we have diapers and shoes,” said Robinson, who still walked away with a ticket, but says that she'll never shoplift again.
– A struggling mom in Kansas says her heart dropped when she was caught shoplifting this week—but a police officer may have turned her life around. Sarah Robinson, who cares for six daughters by herself, tried stealing basic necessities for her 2-year-old twin girls at a Walmart in Roeland Park, Kansas, on Monday. "I had lost my house and all of our belongings, and I don't have a job," she tells ABC News. "So I went to Walmart, grabbed clothes, shoes, diapers, wipes, and I just walked out, but they caught me." That's when officer Mark Engravalle showed up and saw some of Robinson's children walking barefoot with dirty feet. "He asked her what the situation was, and she broke down crying," says a Roeland Park public information officer. Engraville saw she was only stealing necessities for the girls, so he released Robinson with a misdemeanor-theft citation and went back inside with her children. There, he bought the items Robinson wanted and let the girls choose their own shoes; it came to $300, Fox4ck reports. "What she did was wrong and against the law, but her heart was in the right place with wanting to help to take care of her children," says Engravalle, who has two children of his own. Now people are calling the police to offer support for Robinson, who is looking for a home and a job. "There isn't enough words in the world to thank [Engravalle] enough," says Robinson, whose husband died three years ago. "Me and my girls are indebted to him forever."