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.
The employer was a barrister but for going to court for some maybe special kind of meatball is just so low life. When you can just deduct it from her salary which was as said worth 100 plus HK dollars. Waste of time to go to court for some meatball perhaps she will eat for maybe 2 weeks so she must have felt bad about it being eaten in one setting.
maybe the employer dont give food thats ehy she ate the meatballs.. if the employer give her food allowance she can buy more than 100 hkd meatballs…
Jacqueline Coplaten . The prosecutor dropped the first charge which is about the bag and leather slippers. Naku ineng basahin mong maigi
Agreed inconsiderate employer should be banned to get a new helper specially from philippines. �� nkaka gigil n amo ito!
Agree inconsiderate employer should be banned..