Maid jailed for cheating & pawning elderly's jewellery
Posted: 20 December 2011 1247 hrs
SINGAPORE: A Filipino domestic helper was sentenced to three months' jail for duping her employer into handing over her jewellery and then pawning them.
Forty-year-old Glenda Dayrit Alabado pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one charge of cheating and another charge of theft.
The tanned and stocky woman had told her 92-year-old employer, Madam Tan Tou, that her gold bangle and necklace were dirty in October 2011 in her flat at Blk 85A, Lorong 4, Toa Payoh.
Mdm Tan believed her and handed over her jewellery.
Alabado pawned the items, worth S$1,650, and replaced them with fake ones.
Investigations revealed that she had made a similar attempt a few months earlier.
The court heard that she stole three gold bracelets, valued at S$4,600, from Mdm Tan's jewellery box while she was taking a bath.
Alabado again pawned the jewellery for cash.
She could have been jailed up to 10 years and fined for cheating, and jailed up to seven years and fined for theft.
- CNA/ck
