A 39-year-old Filipino maid was fined HK$800 (US$103) on Friday after she was convicted in a Hong Kong court on a theft charge for eating her employer’s meatballs worth HK$100.
In January, Mildred Nilo Ladia was charged with two counts of theft. She was accused of stealing an agnès b brand handbag and two leather slippers on January 11 last year. Ladia was also accused of eating meatballs between March 28 and April 10 in her employer’s Repulse Bay home.
In May last year, barrister Gekko Lan Suet-ying, the maid’s then employer, had deducted HK$100 from Ladia’s statutory salary of HK$4,210.
On Friday, the prosecutor dropped the first charge as Lan, who was in hospital, failed to be appear as a witness in the Eastern Magistrates’ Court, Apple Daily reported. Ladia, who came Hong Kong in August 2015 and had previously worked in Singapore, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia, admitted the second charge, but pleaded in exchange for a lighter penalty.
The magistrate fined the maid HK$800, instead of sending her to jail, because Ladia has to financially support her family in the Philippines, Sing Tao Daily reported.
Jacqueline Coplaten. Must be read properly!
Alam mo kasi ate sinira nya yung trust ng amo nya.. Yung ibang charges sa kanya mag kakaibang date hinde sabay sa meatball.. Na drop yung case kc nasa hospital amo nya di naka rating para mag bigay ng statement..?paki basa po ulit
This is insane.. dapat sa employer i ban na yan. Agnes bag and slippers i dont think so fabricated lang yan para maidiin c kabayan at nag plead guilty lang yan dahil yan ang sabi ng abogado para mapagaan ang sentensiya. Ano magawa ni kabayan kc breadwinner ng pamilya. Better to plead guilty and pay 800 than go to jail at kawawa pamilya sa pinas
Jacqueline Coplaten hey she was accuse
Yup she stole bag and slippers but dropped na yung first offence nya ..actually the employer deducted 100 hk dollars from her salary..ang pinag uusapan dito yung meatballs which is masyadong malaking fines…hindi makatarungan ..hope you get the logic..
MGA INDAYYYYY NAGBABASA BA KYO NG MAAYOS??
HINDI LNG MEATBALLS ANG KINAIN NYA NG VAKAW DIN CYA…..ABAH BASA BASA DIN AT INTINDHIN PAG MY TIME…
Jacqueline Coplaten how do you know it’s true? baka pinagbintangan ang si ate… some employer did not treat them as a human…
The fine basically is for the bags she took… 🙁
Jacqueline Coplaten I did, n I actually reacted to d cruel employers out there, not only for this case. I know she stole stuff here, but for the meatballs, well, maybe you don’t know about our conditions as DWs.
Ngnakaw din sya ng bag at slippers po..kaya kinasuhan sya…magbasa muna bago mg comment!!
Jacqueline Coplaten she was accused!!! Lol
Mga ate..excuse me lang po..Ngnakaw din sya ng bag at slippers po..kaya kinasuhan sya…magbasa muna bago mg comment!!!hindi ung caption lang binasa nyo…focus agad kayo sa meatballs….OMG
they should not hire maid (helper ) for being so greedy!100 hkd is not much ,they can be deducted to the food allowance (1000)if they wished!
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Looks like you did not read all of it, she also stole a bag and slippers
And also bag and slippers
She also stole bag ans slipper
She also stole bag ans slipper not just the meatball
Oh my God !