KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- Thousands of dollars were taken from a Kansas City, Kan., elementary school, and some PTA members think they know who stole the money.

Students at Stony Point South Elementary School spent hours going door to door, selling trash bags, T-shirts and candy for school fundraisers. Then someone took all their money.

PTA members said they think Patrick Helm, the former president of the Stony Point South Elementary PTA, took the money.

He was voted out of office in December, after PTA members said they discovered more than $10,000 missing from the PTA bank account, according to Jodie Murphy, Stony Point PTA treasurer.

"We had went to the bank and requested all the proof of who made these counter withdrawals. They all came back to being him," said Murphy.

PTA bank records show that hundreds of dollars were taken out in unauthorized withdrawals between Nov. 5 and Dec. 3.

By the time they took Helm's name off the bank account and filed a police report, the account was missing $10,772.

KCTV5's Matt Stewart confronted Helm in front of his trailer home off South 74th Street and Kaw Drive.

Stewart asked Helm, "Did you take the money?"

Helm replied, "No, I didn't take the money and I'm telling you now, leave."

Stewart: "Why do we have all these parents saying you took the money?"

Helm: "If I took the money, it's been what, three months?"

Stewart: "Are you going to pay it back?"

Helm: "If I had the money, I'd pay it back."

According to minutes from a PTA meeting, Helm admitted taking the money and said he was "selling off everything and will pay us all our money back but he cannot pay us back now."

Stewart asked Helm, "Do you ever plan on repaying the money?"

Helm: "I don't have the money."

Stewart: "But could you raise the money and get the money back to them sometime in the future?"

Helm: "I don't have it. I didn't take it."

Stewart: "But you're the PTA president. How'd it go missing?"

Helm: "Yeah, a lot of other people have access to a bank account, too."

The PTA supply closet is now empty and the end-of-the-school-year carnival is canceled.

Parents are putting together cookbooks to sell to supplement the $38 remaining in the group's account. The money raised will help pay off what they owe on T-shirts and trash bags already sold.

PTA members said that Helm became president after they discovered a former officer stole money. They were paid back after that incident.

Murphy said Helm made the same promise and allegedly explained why he did it. "Said it was for health; he needed the money for medicine, he needed the money for this and that. Then I asked him, 'OK, then why do you have a new vehicle? I just watched you buy a big screen TV and a Playstation 3.' He basically said he was trying to keep up with the Joneses," Murphy said.

Wyandotte County prosecutors said police have not turned in any reports to them.

The detective on the case said that three months after a complaint was filed, it's still under investigation and that he hasn't yet, "talked with the suspect and would like to get all witness statements first."

Detectives told PTA members that since Helm's name was on the bank account, his actions may not have been criminal.

Marsha Rocha, the new Stony Point PTA president, said, "He's not going to get away with it. He needs to pay that money back. He's hurt too many people doing this."

Stewart asked Helm, "You don't want to answer why you took the money?"

Helm: "I don't have your goddamn money."

Stewart: "It's not my money, it's the kids' money."

Helm: "I don't care whose money it is, I don't have it."

Helm told Stewart he was in the process of selling his trailer.