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| Store where offense took place (Google Maps photo) |
Many people may view shoplifting, or taking items from a store and leaving without paying for them, as a minor offense that sometimes go unpunished.
Domestic helper Esther Rosimo, however, learned that the
offense would cost her a total of 25 days in prison.
Rosimo, 49 years old, pleaded guilty to two counts of theft
in a hearing at Kowloon City Court last Friday (Sept. 26) before Acting
Principal Magistrate Peony Wong.
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Magistrate Wong sentenced her to 20 days after she admitted taking
the following from a Wellcome Supermarket on Austin Road, Yau Ma Tei, last
August 17: 22 boxes of Eclipse candy, six packs of sliced cuttlefish, two packs
of nut, 16 boxes of peanuts, eight
salmon Snackits, one box of 3in1 white coffee, two boxes of 2in1 white coffee,
one box of pizza, six boxes of shrimp shaomai, two Fumakilla vape skin mist, two
roti paratha, eight packs of Mosquitout patch and three bottles of anti-bug
spray.
Rosimo was sentenced another 10 days for stealing two boxes
of salmon fillet at the same Wellcome store more than two weeks later, on Sept.
3.
Wong ordered that five days in the second sentence run at
the same time as the first, leaving a total of 25 days.
