Woman and her parents get jail for abusing maid, who suffered iron and coffee burns and knife wound

SINGAPORE: A week into her first job in Singapore, a domestic helper told her employer that she wanted to return to the maid agency, as her employer's wife and daughter were never satisfied with her work performance.

Pei Ling's father, Grab driver and part-time mover Tan Huat, 70, was handed three weeks' jail and has to pay S$500 in compensation for one charge of voluntarily causing hurt to a maid.Huat hired the victim, 27-year-old Indonesian national Heni Rahayu, in January 2020. She was tasked with chores for the family, who lived in an Ang Mo Kio flat.

Sometime after this, Ai Tee began hitting the victim if she failed to complete housework to her satisfaction. She knocked the maid's head with her fist and struck her with a plastic pail. She also did not seek help from the other family members in the household - Pei Ling's brother and son - as she could not communicate with them, and felt they would not be able to help her.

The police arrived shortly after and the victim was taken to hospital, where various injuries were found on her head and body.Deputy Public Prosecutor Derek Ee asked for three to six weeks' jail for Huat, who hit the victim once.

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