Kindergartner uses mom's fingerprint to go on Pokemon shopping spree

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (KATV) - It's a story you have to see to believe. A Little Rock kindergartner went on a shopping spree on her mom's phone by using her fingerprint while she was asleep.

"Which one's your favorite?" KATV reporter Stacey Spivey asked Ashlynd Howell.

"All of them," Ashlynd answered.

There's no doubt 6-year-old Ashlynd has a love for Pokemon. Two weeks before Christmas, Ashlynd used her mom's fingerprint while she was sleeping to open her phone and buy $250 worth of Pokemon toys on Amazon.

"[She] just said, 'Oh yeah, Mommy, I was shopping, but don't worry it's all going to ship right here to the house,'" Bethany Howell, Ashlynd's mom, said.

Howell said Ashlynd ordered 13 Pokemon items, including some plush toys and figurines, but Howell said they could only return four items.

She said they had a talk with Ashlynd about money and using her mom's phone without permission. They also told her how Santa Claus knew what she did and he would be taking the gifts.

"When a child doesn't have any concept of what they're doing is wrong, all you can do is laugh at it and then make it a teachable moment," Howell said.

However, on Christmas morning, Ashlynd got to "catch 'em all" and then her story caught national attention.

"It went viral and then it has really taken on a life of its own," Howell said.

Ashlynd has been on several national and international TV shows, and she told KATV she cannot wait to tell her story during share time when she goes back to school next week.