Apparently, your kid is a bad judge of character

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You have a young adult child in college. She's living with a roommate in an apartment, and they're splitting the bills. Assume you're paying your child's bills so she can focus on schoolwork and extra-curriculars that come with scholarships instead of having a job. One day you get a phone call from the roommate's mom, who is upset. She's gotten notices at her home address saying that her daughter isn't paying the utility bills and they're going to be shut off. When confronted by her mother, the roommate claims your daughter isn't paying her share. You know this isn't true, because you're paying half of the bills yourself and checks have been cashed in the roommate's name.

What do you do? Do you get involved because it's your money being stolen, or make your daughter handle it because they're her bills and her dodgy roommate? If you do get involved, do you take your anger to the roommate or her mother?

(I was the third roommate in this situation, but I moved out a few months before this all took place ... thank GOD.)