FILIPINA SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING KUWAITI BOY

a Kuwaiti court sentenced a Filipina maid to death after she was convicted of killing her Kuwaiti employer's seven year old son by slitting his throat, a legal source said. Court documents named the woman as May Membrini. She was accused of killing the boy, slitting his 11-year-old brother's throat as well and stabbing his 17-year-old sister last January. Afterwards, she allegedly jumped from the second storey of her employer's home. A police source said at the time that Membrini, who had been in Kuwait for six months, had quarrelled with her employers. The death sentence will automatically be appealed under Kuwaiti law.