 |
| Hospital where alleged offense took place (Google Maps photo) |
Two domestic helpers are facing a charge of concealing the birth of a child by disposing of its dead body in a rubbish bin.
Roselyn Sorongon and Jhoan Lorilla, 34 and 36 years old, respectively,
appeared in Kowloon City Court Monday (May 26), charged with violating section
48 of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance.
 |
| PINDUTIN PARA SA DETALYE |
The Yau Ma Tai Police said in information filed last Feb. 24
that Sorongon and Lorilla had wrapped the baby in a diaper before discarding it
in the rubbish bin inside a washroom for the handicaped at the Emergency and Accident
Room of Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei.
The offense was alleged to have taken place last Feb. 20,
 |
| Pindutin para sa detalye |
The intent, it added, was to “conceal the fact of its birth.”
The police report did not mention who had given birth to the
baby.
 |
| Basahin ang detalye! |
Magistrate Philip Chan adjourned the case to Aug. 18 and freed
the two on bail of $500 each.
