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| Store where theft occurred (Google Maps photo) |
A newly-terminated domestic helper accused of shoplifting food items from a store in Causeway Bay pleaded guilty at Eastern Court today, but her sentence was withheld for a background check after she explained that she stole the food for her own consumption.
Principal
Magistrate Don So also kept S. Santos in jail custody until the next hearing
on Sept. 20 for sentencing, after she
asked whether she could be allowed to post bail.
“Stay inside. You get free food,” he
told her. “Relax.”
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Earlier,
Magistrate So found out, by asking Santos directly, that she was terminated by
her employer last Aug. 24.
Santos, 44
years old, told So she has filed a case against her employer at the Labour Tribunal
to recover unpaid benefits and the first hearing will be held on Sept. 25.
She added
that the Immigration Department has given her until Oct. 1 to remain in Hong
Kong to wait for the results of her labor case.
Santos was
charged by police with theft after she left a Best Mart store on Lee Garden Road
in Causeway Bay without paying for a jar of peanut butter, three packs of fish
fillet, and one bag of chocolates, all worth $116.60.
The police
complaint also noted that she had no fixed abode.
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