Housekeeper pleads guilty to theft of jewellery

It’s one of a homeowner’s lingering fears: to be robbed by an employee you trust enough to let into your house. That’s the scenario experienced by one Belize City family as a woman hired as a domestic worker systemically stole several pieces of jewellery valued at over five thousand dollars. According to the victims, Barbara and Wilfred Elrington, thirty-three year old Georgia Williams had been working for them for approximately one year, but during that time, several of their belongings and cash went missing. Not willing to believe that Williams, a friend of the family since she was a small child, was robbing them blind, the Elringtons kept her on. But the straw that broke the camel’s back came in May of this year when Mrs. Elrington paid a visit to J.E.C. Pawn Shop and saw her gold chain and gold bracelet lying in the showcase. This afternoon, Williams pleaded guilty to the charge of theft and Magistrate Sharon Frazer fined her two thousand dollars. The defendant was ordered to pay five hundred dollars by the end of this month and the balance by September thirtieth.