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Hong Kong court jails domestic helper for 12 weeks for hitting employers’ small children
- Filipino worker, 52, pleads guilty after employers’ CCTV shows her hitting their two-year-old son and 11-month-old infant in their home
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A Hong Kong court has sentenced a foreign domestic helper to 12 weeks in jail for assaulting her employers’ two young children, including forcefully throwing an 11-month-old infant on a bed and hitting him while he was crying.
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At her hearing at West Kowloon Court, the 52-year-old Filipino on Friday pleaded guilty to assaulting the two children on four occasions between June 8 and June 12 at her employers’ home.
CCTV installed in the home showed the defendant hitting a two-year-old boy in the buttocks in a bedroom on June 8. Days after her first offence, the helper similarly spanked his 11-month-old sibling twice while the latter was crying.
On one occasion, she was seen throwing the baby onto his bed after she entered the bedroom and heard the infant crying loudly.
Principal Magistrate Ivy Chui Yee-mei reprimanded the defendant, saying her behaviour had endangered the children’s safety.
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