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| Sky Tower in To Kwa Wan (Google Maps photo) |
For kicking a dog she was supposed to be taking care of as a domestic helper, A Filipina is now in jail for three months after being sentenced at the Kowloon City Court.
L. Portelo, 38 years old, pleaded guilty when she appeared
Tuesday (Jan. 13) before Magistrate Tsang Hing-tung, charged with cruelty to animal,
a violation of section 3(1)(a) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Ordinance.
A complaint filed by the Kowloon City Police said the
offense took place on Sept. 14 last year at her employer’s flat in Sky Tower, on
Sung Wong Toi Road, To Kwa Wan, Kowloon.
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The police alleged that Portelo “cruelly kicked a dog and
caused unnecessary suffering to the said dog.”
Meanwhile, at the Eastern Court, R. R. Ledesma, 56
years old, was jailed for two months after pleading guilty to managing a gambling
establishment in North Point, contrary to section 5(b) of the Gambling
Ordinance, which prohibits gambling in Hong Kong.
Ledesma, whose occupation was described as deliveryman/courier,
was arrested on Sept. 6 at the gambling place at Flat B, 17/F, North Cape
Commercial Building, 388 King's Road, North Point.
Prosecution told Principal Magistrate David Cheung that Ledesma
has had 23 past convictions, six of them related to the gambling charge, the last
of which was in 2023.
So despite the appeal of his
defense lawyer for him to be spared of a non-custodial sentence, Magistrate Cheung
chose a starting point of three months in jail, he deducted one month for
Ledesma’s guilty plea.
