Pregnant woman jailed for abusing maid, making her eat hair and cotton wool

SINGAPORE: A heavily pregnant woman was jailed for eight weeks on Wednesday for abusing her domestic helper by hitting and slapping her, as well as forcing her to eat dirty cotton wool and hair off the toilet floor.

The victim, a 24-year-old Indonesian woman, began working for Tan in November 2018 for S$600 a month. She was tasked with household chores, cooking and caring for Tan's youngest daughter, a toddler at the time. On the morning of Mar 30, 2019, the victim bathed and fed Tan's toddler before leaving the child in a room with Tan's mother and second daughter.

The victim later told her sister what happened, and her sister called the Centre for Domestic Employees for help. Police went to Tan's home, and the victim was taken to hospital with bruises on her forehead and arm. She said her client is a first-time offender and the offences are"completely out of character for her". Tan has been employing domestic helpers for more than 10 years with no issue, and one former maid wrote a testimonial about her good treatment.

Should be jailed for 2yrs and pay compenstation $5000

Deserve it

jailed for ‘eight weeks’ and ‘$3.2k’ compensation for abusing domestic helper. thats all

the maids are not even citizens, I suppose

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