A 50-year-old Filipina domestic worker was sentenced to six
weeks in jail on Dec 14 after she pleaded guilty to stealing jewelry worth
$20,000 from her employer.
Convicted of theft on her own admission was a woman surnamed
Bayog, according to information supplied by the Hong Kong Police.
A duty officer at the Police Public Relations Bureau said in
reply to an inquiry from The SUN that the woman was now in prison to serve out
her sentence
“Police received a report on Dec 10 from a 38-year-old man
surnamed Lam about his jewelry worth $20,000 stolen by his female domestic
helper in a unit on Grampian Road in
Kowloon City,” the PPRB officer said over the telephone.
She said a police team went to the address to investigate and
arrested the domestic helper on the same day
“The arrested woman was charged and she appeared in court on Dec
14.
She pleaded guilty and was sent to prison for six weeks,” the
officer said.
Bayog’s case was not included in the daily court list as she
pleaded guilty at her initial court appearance.
But The SUN got wind of the case through reliable sources, who
gave her first name as Alien .
The PPRB gave no further detail of the case. — Vir B. Lumicao
