She even joked that she would lend them money and take it back
when she had a need for it.
'I told them to take whatever they wanted, and just not to hurt
us,' the 43-year-old, who is married to a businessman, told The
Straits Times yesterday.
For his part in the offence, contractor Tay Chuan Bock, 49, was
sentenced to 31/2 years' jail and six strokes of the cane
yesterday. Together with five others, he had robbed Ms Ong of
$112,792 after tying up the housewife, her 10-year-old daughter and
Filipino maid at her Pavilion Rise house last September.
One of Tay's accomplices, 38-year-old Low Soon Kwee, who is
unemployed, pleaded guilty to another robbery and was sentenced to
four years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane yesterday.
Filipino maid Cleoferly Ucab Tangog, 35, said the men had been
carrying out fogging in the area for two days before they
approached her that afternoon, asking to be let in. She did not do
so. Ms Ong returned later and was approached by two men. They wore
overalls and masks, carried fogging equipment and even gave her a
form to sign to 'check for mosquito breeding', she said. She let
them in without checking their identification cards.
