A Filipino domestic worker was sentenced to a year in jail at Kowloon City Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday.
Semira Arlene Tejada had pleaded guilty to stealing HK$200,000 (US$25,570) in cash from her employer at a flat in Phoenix Court on Broadcast Drive in Kowloon Tong on October 6 last year, Sing Tao Daily reported.
The court heard that the maid’s employer, local inventor Vani Li Wai-yan, put HK$200,000 cash in the dining room. However, he later had trouble finding the money and thought he had put the cash in another place.
Li later found that Tejada, who worked for him for a few months, had bought an air-ticket to the Philippines for HK$5,600. He suspected that the domestic worker stole his money.
Li called the police and found out later that the defendant admitted that she had stolen his cash. She had sent HK$110,000 back home in the Philippines and spent the rest of it in Hong Kong.
Read: Maid arrested for suspected theft of money from employer
Money versus work!
That’s the fact. Thank you sir.
Fernandez Jhenne tama! Yan tayo mga pilipino d baling magdildil ng asin mahalaga mamuhay ka ng dignidad. Anhin mo nman yang luho kung buong buhay mo hahabulin ka naman ng konsensiya mo dahil nakuha mo sa d magandang paraan.
Korek ka sis, may sadyang malikot Ang kamay at isa pa kulang din Ang pangarap ng magulang nong syay maliit pa,Dahil Kami di sa pagyayabang Ang laging bilin ng nanay kahit singko Basta Hindi sa inyo hwag nyong kunin di bale na magdildil tau ng asin hwag Lang magnanakaw..
Wala nman xang dinadamay sa kasalanan niya,bakit tayo paapekto kung d nman natin ginagawang mgnakaw? Xa lng gumawa non
tama nakakahiya ka ate! wala ka bang isip?naku nakaka stressed ka! ako ni singkong duling kung utusa ako para bumuli never akong naikaalam sa hindi saking pera. Subrang tanga no ate! nakakagigil ka!
Bakit di ma kontento sa sahod. Damay damay na naman.
Ayen Queen Reyes sabihin niyo sa nagbalita. Hindi rin po namin malalaman kung hindi binabalita. Hindi niyo po masisi ang mga tao kung mag comment ng ganyan. Basahin niyo po lahat ng sinasabi ng tao. Maraming galit.. at ang respetong hinihingi mo doon lang sa mga taong totoong biktima po. At hindi po dinimand. We canno’t please everybody po.
Michelle Noynay Potenciano respeto sa pamilya ng gumawa nohh..tahimik na lang marani nakakabasa kawawa din naman ang pamilya sa pinas lalo na un mader nya
You made bad reputation of the filipina people specially working here in Hongkong.
Kakahiya nandamay pa
MaNita Divinagracia Magat tama po! kahit nga ginagawa muna lahat ng tama gagawan kpa rin mali at tlgang maraming nabibiktima dahil lang ang rason ng kadahiman ng amo hindi nila gusto ang maid na nahire nila. Hay life survival lang talaga. Pero kailangan panatilihin ang malinis na puso at higit sa lahat magkaroon ng takot sa Dios!