Filipina gets 11-month jail for $218k theft

Le Point in Tseung Kwan O (Google Maps photo)

 

A Filipina domestic helper has been jailed 11 months after pleading guilty in Kwun tong Court to the theft of $218,000 worth of jewelry from her employer.

Acting Principal Magistrate May Chung convicted Aiza Avilla, 38 years old, on Friday of violating section 9 of the Theft Ordinance, adding that her offense was made serious by her breach of her employer’s trust, having been allowed into their home.

The theft took place on July 17 this year at the employer’s fat at Le Point on King Ling Road, Tseung Kwan O, New Territories.

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Avilla admitted taking one gold ring, one gold bracelet, three gold necklaces, four gold bangles, and one diamond ring, valued at a total of $218,000, from female Tang Man Man.

At Eastern Court also Friday, Magistrate Kestrel Lam put off to Jan. 2 next year the sentencing of Sharina Joy Cabal, 37 years old, who pleaded guilty to three counts of theft, to await a background report that he ordered.

Cabal was remanded her in jail until the sentencing.

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In the first charge, Cabal admitted stealing $6,000 in cash last April 1 at her employer Alice Tse’s flat in Park Garden on Tai Hang Drive, Happy Valley.

In the second charge, she admitted stealimg $30,000 June 1 and Aug. 31 this year from the same flat.

The final theft, of one "Bulgari" watch worth $18,000, took place on on Oct. 13.in the same place,