Pinay pleads guilty to 4 counts of assault on her Filipina DH

 

Building where assault happened (Google Maps photo)

A Filipina resident pleaded guilty today at Kwun Tong court to four counts of assault on her domestic helper, also a Filipina, but will have to wait until March 27 to find out what her punishment will be.

May Esplana, a 37-year-old customer service officer, was returned to jail where she would wait two weeks for her sentencing.

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Acting Principal Magistrate Leung Ka-kie adjourned the case after the four counts of violation of the Offenses Against the Person Ordinance, were read to Esplana.

The assaults were committed in Esplana’s flat on Ting Yip St. in Sau Mau Ping, Kowloon, on her helper, Justine Melendres.

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The first two charges of common assault were committed by Esplana on the helper on two separate occasions on Oct. 29 last year. She again assaulted Melendres two days later, on Oct. 31.

The assault was repeated the next day, Nov. 1, but leaving “actual bodily harm” on Melendres, resulting in the fourth charge.

The maximum penalty for assault occasioning bodily harm is three years' imprisonment while for common assault it is a year in jail.

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In a separate case also in Kwun Tong Court, Magistrate Leung put off sentencing on Marlon Cayambas, 48, who had pleaded guilty to money laundering.

Leung also returned Cayambas to jail after adjourning the case to March 27.

The case of dealing with property known or believed to be proceeds of indictable offense, a violation of the Organized and Serious Crimes Ordinance, arose from the inflow and outflow of money totalling $147,394 in his HSBC account between 15^th and 21^st  of September, 2021.

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