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| Vivo's lawyer says the magistrate was very selective in considering the evidence |
Filipina domestic worker Angela Vivo, who was sentenced in Kowloon
Vivo’s lawyer, Phil Chau, filed an appeal notice immediately
in the District Court after the sentencing, then applied for bail.
The defense lawyer told a representative of Christian
Action, which is giving Vivo shelter, to
apply for legal aid for the appeal.
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He said Magistrate Raymond Wong should have acquitted Vivo
based on the evidence.
Earlier, Wong turned down Chau’s request for an impact
report on the victim before imposing the sentence.
Vivo, 51, was found guilty on Sept 12 of two charges of
ill-treating her ward but was acquitted of another count of ill-treatment and
two charges of indecently assaulting the now 11-year-old boy, identified only
as “X.”
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Wong sentenced the Filipina to six weeks on the first charge
of assault or ill-treatment for allegedly injuring the boy’s scalp by pulling
his hair sometime in July 2016.
He imposed three weeks for the other assault which allegedly
happened on Dec 7, 2018. Vivo was accused of pinching X so strongly in his left
arm that it left a “very painful” bruise.
In her defense, Vivo said she was forced to to grab the
boy’s arm to save him from an oncoming truck after X ran on the road when his
mother refused to buy him a toy. She denied the hair-pulling incident.
Both assault allegations were made only after Vivo pursued a
claim for long service pay against her
employer at the Labour Tribunal after her contract was terminated. – Vir B. Lumicao
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