By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 29 March 2011 1408 hrs
SINGAPORE: A
recalcitrant offender who brought her then-10-year-old daughter along to
commit burglary was sentenced on Tuesday to 26 months' jail.
Thirty-one-year-old
Ng Bee Hong also had a habit of stealing from her employers, one of
whom became her victim on her first day of work.
Ng had been fined S$4,000 in January 2008 for theft.
She
was later sentenced to 28 months' jail in October, that year, for
offences including housebreaking and criminal breach of trust.
In
this latest case, Ng had her daughter by her side when she broke into
her former workplace, the Nessea Club at Upper Thomson Road, on October
30, last year.
Ng, who used to be one of its cashiers, arrived there at around 12.30am, after it closed for the day.
The
court heard that she used a hammer to break open a wooden door to the
club's main office before asking her daughter to slip on a pair of
gloves that she had brought along with them.
The girl did as she was told and the pair entered the office.
Ng asked her daughter to take a key from a cupboard and used it to unlock a drawer containing another set of keys.
Ng took these keys and used them to enter the club's jackpot room.
Once
inside, she helped herself to several bowls of coins from a jackpot
machine and also used the keys to unlock a safe in the room.
Ng managed to steal cash totalling more that S$11,000 from the club before fleeing the scene with her daughter.
In
addition to this, the divorcee, who is currently expecting another
child, had also misappropriated some S$6,000 dollars of the club's money
for her own use, on her first day of work.
Ng, who is also suffering from third-stage kidney cancer, committed this offence on October 1, last year.
The
petite, fair complexioned woman had also stolen more than S$600 in cash
just days earlier on September 23 while working as a cashier at
Greenbegger Supermarket at Geylang Road.
Ng, who is unrepresented, pleaded guilty to three of five charges earlier on March 9, this year.
Before
handing out the sentence, Senior District Judge See Kee Oon said that
she had committed serious offences and she did so shortly after her
release from jail.
Ng and her daughter were arrested on November 1, 2010 but no further action will be taken against the girl.
The youngster is currently staying with her father.
- CNA/fa
horrible parent.