Responsive Ad Slot

Latest

Sponsored

Features

Buhay Pinay

People

Sports

Business Ideas for OFWs

Join us at Facebook!

Debt-ridden Filipina jailed 6 months after admitting $84k theft

24 November 2021

By Vir B. Lumicao 

The employer's diamond earrings which Areola had pawned were no longer recovered

A jobless Filipina was jailed for six months today for stealing a pair of diamond earrings valued at $80,000 and $4,000 in cash from her employer in South Horizons, Ap Lei Chau, between Dec 5 last year and September this year.

The defendant, Felomina Areola, 51, pleaded guilty before Eastern Court Magistrate Daniel Tang to one count of theft for taking the jewelry and cash when she was still employed as a domestic worker by the victim, Bonnie Kam, 40.

PINDUTIN PARA SA DETALYE

The prosecution said the employer kept the pair of diamond earrings in her wardrobe inside her bedroom at Flat C, 9/F, Hoi Ning Court in South Horizons sometime last year.

Kam also put stuffed cash totaling $4,000 in banknotes of various denominations into 48 red packets which she kept in a table and her wardrobe inside her bedroom.

PRESS FOR DETAILS!
 

On Oct 24, Kam discovered that the money inside the red packets was gone. Then, on Nov 7, she also could not find the earrings in her wardrobe.

The employer confronted Areola on Nov 22 and the helper admitted she had taken the money and the earrings.

On the same day, Kam dismissed the helper, who had been working for the family since January 2018. After some consideration, the employer decided to report the case to the police.

CLICK THIS TO REGISTER FOR FREE!

The police launched a search for Areola and found her at Statue Square in Central on Nov 23. She was arrested and taken to the Western Police District Station.

Under caution, the defendant admitted stealing the earrings on Dec 5 last year and hocking them in a pawnshop in Aberdeen on the same day.

Areola admitted stealing only $2,500 from the red packets

As for the $4,000 cash, Areola admitted she had stolen $2,500 from the red packets inside the study and wardrobe between April 2021 and September 2021. The helper also said that she stole the earrings to repay some debts. 

PRESS FOR MORE DETAILS

The defendant was charged with theft and taken into custody on Nov 23.

The prosecution said police did a pawnshop check and found that Areola had pawned the earrings last December at the Aberdeen pawnshop. They could no longer be recovered.

BASAHIN ANG KWENTONG DREAM LOVE

In mitigation, the duty lawyer who represented Areola appealed for a lenient sentence. He said the helper was forced to steal to pay off debts and send money to her family.

But Tang said stealing from one’s employer inside her own home is a serious offense. He gave Areola a one-third discount for her guilty plea and sent her to prison for six months.

PINDUTIN PARA SA DETALYE

https://leade7.wixsite.com/thesunads/asiandragon
PADALA NA!
 
CALL US!

Don't Miss