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A Filipina was sentenced today to 10 months’ imprisonment after she admitted stealing $163,000 worth of jewelry from her employer’s house in Sai Kung during the last three months of 2023.
Sharon Tabareng, 39 years old, pleaded guilty to each of the three counts of theft as they were read to her at the Kwun Tong Court.
The main evidence presented against her were pawnshop
receipts for the stolen items, and the statement from staff of a pawnshop in Sai
Kung who identified Tabareng as the one who brought the jewelry to them.
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| DITO ANG DETALYE |
According to facts to which she agreed, her employer Yip
Yuong-ming retrieved the first batch of jewelry she pawned for $40.000, consisting
of 29 golden ornaments worth $100,000 she was said to have stolen from Oct. 9
to Nov. 9, 2023.
The second charge was for one diamond ring worth $30,000 which
she stole on Dec. 20.
The third charge, formally added during the hearing today,
was for a pair of earrings and a gold ornament valued at $33,000, stolen on
Nov. 22.
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| TAWAG NA! |
Acting Principal Magistrate Winnie Lau credited Tabareng for
her guilty plea by reducing her sentences by a third, resulting in seven months’s
jail for the first charge, and four months each for the second and third
charges.
Since only 1.5 months of the second and third sentences were
to run after the seven-month sentence for the first charge, the final sentence
added up to 10 months.
In mitigation, Tabareng’s lawyer said she had been working as
a domestic helper in Hong Kong since 2016, and this was the only time her clear
record was broken.
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| PINDUTIN |
He added that her relatives banded together and contributed a total of $11,000 to give back to her employer as compensation for the theft, although it fell far short of the employer’s actual losses.
Aside from the $40,000 she paid to
the pawnshop to recover the first batch of her jewelry, she has yet to recover the three other stolen items, which Tabareng had pawned for just $300 and $800, respectively
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| PADALA NA! |
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