A CHILD snatcher broke down in tears yesterday after she was put on probation for 12 months and ordered to seek help for depression.
Deputy Judge Eccleton was told Lusia Bong had been badly shaken by her courtroom ordeal and had suffered enough.
He said he accepted the 36-year-old Indonesian immigrant was a decent person and that giving her help was better than jailing her.
Bong was found guilty of stealing four-year-old Chan Ho-ming after finding him lost outside a McDonald's restaurant in Tsuen Wan on February 21 last year. She handed the boy to police on February 23 following a massive search.
The court heard she told police she thought God had answered her prayers for a child when she found Ho-ming.
Bong, who denied theft, admitted keeping him for two days but maintained she had never intended to deprive his parents of him permanently.
