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| Kwun Tong Court |
A Filipina helper who failed to pay for $129 worth of goods she
had placed in a bag in the lower rack of a grocery cart was fined $1,500 after
pleading guilty to charge of theft in Kwun Tong Court on Aug 8.
M. Alog admitted her guilt before Magistrate Tobias Cheng at
the start of a scheduled trial of her case.
The prosecution said Alog was arrested on Apr 18 after
trying to leave a Wellcome supermarket in Yau Tong, Kowloon
According to the charge, the defendant went to the
supermarket on that date and picked up some items from the shelves and put them
in a basket on the upper rack of the cart.
Then she went around the other shelves, took more goods, and
placed them in a recyclable bag in the lower rack. Unknown to the defendant, a staff
monitoring the CCTV cameras in the shop saw her.
A few minutes later, the defendant went to the counter and
paid for the goods in the upper basket, then proceeded to the exit. Outside the
shop, the staff intercepted her, checked the content of the recyclable bag and
found the unpaid items.
During investigation, Alog insisted she forgot to pay for
the other goods. She was allowed to post a $500 bail for her temporary
liberty.
In mitigation, the defense lawyer said Alog came to Hong Kong to work for her employer in late 2017, but was
terminated by her employer after her arrest. She is married and has a child.
Her husband, who is in a car buy-and-sell business, has no regular income.
The lawyer asked for a lenient sentence by way of a $1,000
fine.
But Magistrate Cheng said that was too low and set the
starting fine at $2,000. After a 25% discount for Alog’s guilty plea, he
imposed a fine of $1,500 to be paid by Aug 12.
After the trial, Alog was accompanied by Danny Baldon,
officer of the Consulate’s assistance to nationals section, to the Overseas
Workers Welfare Administration to seek help to contact her employer and claim
her air ticket back to Manila
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