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Family with quintuplets laments theft of minivan, car seats

PITTSBURGH — A Mt. Washington family is scrambling to find a way to transport their 5-year-old quintuplets after their minivan was stolen.

The van had five booster seats for the children. The dark gray, 2014 Honda Odyssey EX has a license plate of JFH0149.

Police say it was reported stolen Wednesday morning. Since then, posts on social media have popped up, and people are trying to spread the word in an effort to find it.

The minivan was parked on Amabell Street near the Stickman's home.

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"Our son, Alex, got to the bottom of the steps and started jumping and said, 'Momma, where’s the car?'" Shanna Stickman said. "We are both pretty adamant that we locked it, but with five kids, sometimes things pass you. You think you checked the doorknob, maybe the button got pushed in your pocket."

The Stickmans have contacted their insurance and rental companies and scrambled for a replacement.

Their insurance only covers $30 a day, and to get a vehicle that can hold all of their family, they'll have to pay the rest out of pocket.

"We live paycheck to paycheck. They’re in private school, so there’s bills that need (to be) paid, and (we were) putting away for another car," Stickman said. "There’s evil in the world we have tried to shelter them from, and now there is much worse things that could have happened, sure, but this will shake us and our day and our month, and (we'll) try not to let it shake Christmas."

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