My kiddo's friend was caught stealing her (and my younger kiddo's) stuff.

For context: my oldest daughter is in 3rd grade and my youngest daughter is almost 4. The friend in question is in 2nd grade.So my 3rd grader walks to school with her 2nd grader friend, whose parents are immigrants from China (relevant later on). The friend often hangs out in our house before and after school as well.Last weekend, my 3rd grader bought a couple Num-Noms with money she saved. On Monday, she showed them to the friend before school when she stopped by our house before walking to school together. By Monday afternoon, it was discovered that one of her Num-Noms was missing.On Tuesday morning before school, the friend showed up at our house and just so happened to have the same Num-Nom that went missing the day before. She claimed she got it as a gift from someone else.At this point, my husband/daughters' dad pulled daughter aside and said to her, "Don't you think it's a little odd that [friend] showed up at our house with the exact same toy that went missing yesterday and claims that she got it as a gift from someone else?" Trying to suggest to her, of course, that it's likely her friend stole it. He didn't want to interfere too much in case it was just a big, weird coincidence (and to allow daughter the space to handle the situation how she saw fit).Daughter thought it was odd, but continued to walk to school with her. On Wednesday evening, it was discovered that another Num-Nom came up missing.That night, we talked about it with daughter and told her that while she could choose to keep walking to school with her friend, we weren't going to allow her in the house anymore until she returned what was taken and apologized (or were somehow satisfied that she did not, in fact, take the toy), and that we would need to tell the friend's parents. We also let her know that friends don't take stuff from friends, and she shouldn't feel like she needed to allow a friend to violate her trust in order to avoid losing that friend. She understood.My husband gets daughter off to school in the mornings as I have to leave earlier than she does, so he was planning on asking the friend about the missing toy this morning as well as (in all likelihood, anyway) telling her she couldn't come in anymore. When the friend stopped by and came in, before he had a chance to say anything, daughter asked to talk to the friend in private. They went in the bathroom and shut the door.Husband could hear them whispering, so he opened the door to check on them and see what was going on.On the floor of the bathroom was friend's open backpack, and in the backpack was a bag full of small toys that had gone missing from our house, including toys that belonged to our youngest. Among them was the other missing Num-Nom.Husband asked friend, "What is all this?" Friend replied, "I didn't take them!"We took the toys back, of course, but after husband checked to make sure all the toys were actually ours, it was time for the kids to head to school, so he didn't get a chance to talk to her as planned.Our daughter is not mad or upset about the stealing - I think she's a little more upset about friend's banishment from our house, to be honest (I made sure to ask daughter if she might have given friend any of the toys - she says she did not, other than a couple of her sister's MLP ponies we had duplicates of). But she understands the reason.Now, earlier I said that friend's parents are immigrants. Her parents do not speak English beyond a few pleasantries. I have no idea how we are going to communicate to them what happened, but I know that if it were my kid, I would want to know about it. How can we do this?Tomorrow morning, husband plans on not letting friend in the house and telling her exactly why. We don't plan on barring daughter from walking to school with her, but she cannot come into the house again until she apologizes, we are satisfied that it is sincere and that all the toys have been returned, and we are able to talk to her parents.Anything else we should be doing/doing differently? Anyone else have experience with this? Looking for any advice you might have. Thanks!tl;dr: Daughter's 2nd grader friend has stolen items from our house. Friend's parents don't speak English. What do? via /r/Parenting http://ift.tt/2qG7874