Istikomah, a 38-year-old Indonesian maid, pleaded guilty to one count of theft and one count of obstruction of justice.
She was sentenced on 27 August to 6 months and 6 weeks imprisonment.
She had guess her employer’s safe’s password correctly and stole more than $8,000 from her.
What happened?
Istikomah started working for the victim, Hu Jing Jing, 31-years-old in February 2019.
Hu got herself a safe which she used to keep money inside and kept the safe in the maid’s bedroom.
The maid tried to unlock the safe multiple times, eventually succeeding by guess the password correctly in October 2019.
Then then unlocked it multiple times to steal Hu’s money, which she used to buy clothes, food and jewellery.
She also tried to remit the stolen money to Indonesia and asked a another maid to help her change the money to Indonesian Rupiah.
She told Hu that she wanted to stop working for her on 5 January and Hu then opened her safe 4 days later, because she wanted to give the maid some money for her return home.
She then found a part of her money missing and her friend then make a police report/
Istikomah then admitted to the police that she stole from Hu.
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