2 DHs cleared of charges of throwing away dead baby

 

Kowloon City Court

Two domestic helpers charged with concealing the birth of a child by disposing of its dead body in a rubbish bin, have been cleared after prosecutors withdrew the charge against them on October 9.

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R. Sorongon and J. Lorilla, 34 and 36 years old, respectively, appeared in Kowloon City Court where they were originally charged with violating section 48 of the Offences Against the Person Ordinance.

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The court set aside the information filed by the Yau Ma Tai Police on 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 ont Feb. 20.