Consulate officials met on May 21 with a Filipina domestic
worker who was picked up by the police in Yuen Long two days earlier and
detained for 30 hours for allegedly hitting her employer’s daughter with her
mobile phone.
But during the meeting at the Consulate which happened after she was freed on $600 police bail, Mary Ann Adlao told the
officials her employer’s daughter, Michelle Wong Hiu-ling, had faked the
charge.
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| Adlao told police, "I did not do anything" |
Adlao said Wong called the police because she had warned her of calling them herself after Wong had squeezed her arm during an argument. She pointed out that she could not have hurt Wong because her employer and another daughter were in the same room at the time and could have easily thwarted her.
The Filipina also said she was made to work not in the house
of her contractual employer Hui Lin Leung, but in a house in Casa Regalia, Yuen
Long, where the elderly woman’s younger daughter, Sonia Wong Hui-yung, lives with her
Indian husband and four children.
Her contract states that Hui lives in the Yuen Long house
with Sonia and her family, but Adlao said her employer actually resided in
another district with Michelle.
The Filipina said the argument happened when she returned
from her day-off at about 8pm on May 19, and was confronted by Sonia and Hui
because she had left the house at 7am that day, one hour earlier than she was
told.
As the argument escalated, Michelle reportedly arrived, and immediately
ordered Adlao to go down the stairs where she was then.
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| Still picture from the video recording of the incident by Adlao's sister |
“Binitawan niya ang kamay ko at siya ang pumunta sa gilid
ko, sa tapat ng TV. Sabi niya sinaktan ko siya kaya siya ang tatawag ng pulis.
Tapos, dumating mga pulis pagkatapos niyang tumawag sa telepono.”
While the argument was going on, Adlao managed to place a
video call to her sister, Catherine, who is also working in Hong
Kong , asking her to call the police because her employer’s family
had threatened to have her arrested.
Catherine managed to record a scene where Hui and her
daughters are shown on the other side of the vast living room, across
the stairs where Adlao was. One of the women is also shown putting away what
appeared to be a video camera.
In his own statement, the arresting officer said the
allegation against Adlao was that she assaulted Wong Hiu-ling with a black
mobile phone “on the left forehead, causing discomfort” to the alleged victim.
But when asked about the allegation, Adlao reportedly said,
“I didn’t do anything.”
The incident happened nine days after Adlao had served
notice that she was terminating her contract with Hui.
Adlao’s decision to leave was allegedly sparked by Sonia
getting mad when the maid hesitated about joining the family on a trip to Singapore
But Adlao told the Consulate officials she also wanted to
leave because she and the other maid were not given enough food. When the
family would eat out, they got nothing to eat at all because Sonia reportedly
told them about two months after they started working for her not to touch any
of the food in her house without being told.
Although her friends and her sister gave her food on her days off, Adlao said she
lost a lot of weight in the four months that she was in Hui’s employ.
The Filipina said her duties included taking care of Sonia’s
8-month-old baby, cooking, washing two cars, feeding the family’s pet rabbit,
and cleaning the entire house, which has four floors and measures 2,200 square
feet. Another Filipina maid did the laundry and other chores.
But despite the hard work, Adlao said she had a good
relationship with Sonia, until she balked at joining her family in the Singapore
Adlao is due to report back to the police on Jun 11.
Meantime, she and the owner of her employment agency are
preparing to ask Hui to pay her unpaid salary and other benefits, including one
month’s salary in lieu of notice.
They are also seeking advice on whether Adlao can claim
damages against Michelle for the alleged malicious prosecution.
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