A Filipina was imprisoned for nine months today after pleading guilty at Shatin Court to two counts of overstaying.
Acting Principal Magistrate
Amy Chan sentenced Espirita Domepnas, 43 years old, to two months in prison for
the first breach of condition of stay and nine months for the second. Since the two penalties were
made to run concurrently, the net penalty is nine months.
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Magistrate Chan also ordered
that Domepnas forfeit her bail of $100.
Domespnas
was charged with violation of the Immigration Ordinance after she was arrested
on Feb. 9, 2011. Her visa had expired two years earlier, on Oct. 26, 2008, two
weeks after she was terminated from her job as a domestic helper.
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But after
she was freed on police bail of $100, she disappeared.
Her second case arose from violating her condition of stay between Aug. 8, 2012 and March 1, 2024, thus extending her overstay period to more than 15 years from her original departure date of Oct. 26, 2008, which resulted in her penalty being set at nine months in prison.
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