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| The Filipina was sentenced at Shatin Court |
Lying to an Immigration officer three times has resulted in a Filipina being jailed for eight months.
Hydee Cauton, 45 years old, pleaded guilty on Monday at Shatin
Court to three counts of telling an Immigration officer that she was a domestic
helper under contract with a certain Wong Yiu Hung, in violation of the
Immigration Ordinance,
In truth, however, she did not actually work for her
supposed employer but elsewhere, as an illegal worker, for better pay.
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The charges against Cauton were for the false representations she made when she applied for an extension of stay on March 9, 2022, when she arrived at
Hong Kong Airport on March 31, 2023, and when she again requested an extention
of stay on May 16, 2024.
In his appeal for a lenient sentence, her lawyer said Cauton
had worked in Hong Kong legally as a domestic helper for 10 years but resorted
to this arrangement because her father fell ill with a kidney disease. Later, however,
both her parents died.
He said she paid $30,000 to an employment agent to process
her papers with the Immigration Department using a falsified contract.
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The lawyer said she should be credited for pleading guilty,
and for cooperating with Immigration officers investigating others involved in helping
her get her spurious domestic helper visa.
Magistrate Andrew Mok sentenced her to six months in prison for each of the
three counts.
Because of her guilty plea, he gave her a one-third discount for each
sentence, leaving four months each.
Magistrate Mok then ordered that half of the sentences for the second and
third charges run after the first sentence, resulting in a final sentence of
eight months.
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