A security guard touched a domestic helper’s breast in a lift last Thursday, Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Lam said during a regular press conference yesterday.
Meanwhile, Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon said during the same press conference that a “curious” scaffolder took a gander at a woman using a toilet on Friday.
Security guard touches woman’s breast
Ho identified the male security guard surnamed Mo aged 33 as a non-resident worker (NRW) from the mainland. The victim is a Filipina domestic helper in her twenties.
According to Ho, on August 4 at 10 a.m. the victim went to her employer’s flat in central Taipa. Ho said that when the victim entered a lift, Mo, the security guard of the building, followed and offered to press the lift’s button for her but suddenly touched her breast.
Ho said that afterwards Mo left the scene immediately. The victim felt angry and ashamed of the incident and reported it to the police the next day. Ho underlined that Mo was intercepted when he was about to leave Macau through the Barrier Gate checkpoint on Saturday night.
According to Ho, Mo initially denied the accusation, but the building’s CCTV footage revealed that Mo did touch the victim’s breast. Mo was transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP) on Tuesday, facing a sexual harassment charge, Ho said.
Scaffolder peeks at woman in toilet
Meanwhile, PSP spokesman Wong Wai Chon said the 53-year-old male scaffolder surnamed Li is a NRW from the mainland. Wong added that the incident happened in a commercial building where the victim, a local female at her thirties works, and where Li was erecting scaffolding.
According to Wong, last Friday at 9 a.m. the victim and her friend went to the toilet, where she saw a man peeking at her from the gap under the toilet’s partition. The victim immediately came out and with her friend confronted Li and called the police.
During the investigation, Li claimed that he went to the woman’s toilet because he was desperate to use the toilet, and this was the first time he had been inside the building and he could not find the men’s toilet. Li claimed that he peeked at the victim “out of curiosity”.
Li has been transferred to the Public Prosecutions Office (MP), facing an invasion of privacy charge, Wong said.
Judiciary Police (PJ) spokesman Ho Chan Lam (left) and Public Security Police (PSP) spokesman Wong Wai Chon look on during yesterday’s regular press conference.
Photo: William Chan
