A 44-year-old domestic worker, accused of mixing some of her urine and menstrual blood into her employer’s food, began standing trial in the State Courts on Monday (Aug 23).
Rowena Ola Canares, a Filipina, is contesting one charge of committing mischief.
Her employer, a software engineer who cannot be named due to a gag order to protect his identity, took the stand on Monday morning to describe how he had learnt about the alleged offences when Canares’ ex-boyfriend sent him text messages over WhatsApp.
But her lawyer argues she had lied to the ex-boyfriend about the acts and had not in fact committed the offence. Her ex-boyfriend died in April this year after battling advanced stage cancer.
Maid who stole from employers jailed after adding menstrual blood to their food
A foreign domestic helper had stolen more than S$17,000 in cash from her employer’s mother. She was also afraid that the family would scold her for her work performance. So the Indonesian mixed some of her urine, saliva and menstrual blood into their rice and water, and the family of six ended up consuming it.
This practice of using vaginal fluids to make love and magical potions can be found in some parts of South-east Asia, where some believe that they have special powers. On Monday (Jan 13), the domestic worker — who goes by one name, Diana — was sentenced to six months and seven weeks’ jail for her actions.
The 30-year-old pleaded guilty in a district court to two counts of mischief and one count of theft. Another charge of theft was taken into consideration for sentencing. Diana had worked for her employers for about two years when she put the offending fluids into the family’s kettle and rice.
Jail for maid who stole S$8,002 from employer, hid cash in her private parts
A domestic helper took S$5,002 from her elderly employer’s safe, put the cash in a small plastic bag and hid it inside her private parts.
The cash was discovered only during a body check at Changi Women’s Prison after she was charged in court with her offences. On Thursday (May 9), Bajo Nelgielyn Bobita, 28, was sentenced to 16 weeks’ jail after pleading guilty to two charges of theft.
The Filipino had worked in the household of Mr Lee See Boon, a 69-year-old self-employed businessman, for one year and two months until March this year. Mr Lee lived with his wife and five-year-old grandson in a flat in Serangoon Avenue 2.
FOREIGN MAID HELP SHOWER ELDERLY MAN & UPLOAD TO TIK TOK
Slowly but surely, TikTok is taking over the world. And foreign domestic workers are not exempt from that notion. Gone are the days of old when helpers have to contend with a lopsided ratio of 100% labour and 0% entertainment. They are now free to dabble in the mystic arts of TikTok, though whether it’s for a positive cause is quite another question altogether.
A video was recently uploaded on the Facebook page Sg Dirty Fella which shows a maid showering an elderly man.
The foreign maid then uploaded the video on her Tiktok account. Such actions are indeed incorrigible as employers place their trust in the maid to take care of their parents.
The video has since been deleted from her Tiktok account.
Domestic helper films TikTok video of her bathing elderly man leading to outrage online in S'pore
The original video did not censor the man's face
Various shenanigans and happenings posted to TikTok have attracted attention and backlash recently after they were circulated on other social media platforms. Another TikTok video posted to Facebook appears to have drawn netizens' ire.
In a video reposted to a Facebook group offering support for foreign domestic workers in Singapore and their employers, a woman believed to be a domestic helper, can be seen assisting an elderly man in a bathroom. The camera appeared to have been set up by the woman before she started filming herself bathing the man, who is seated. The woman looks directly at the camera several times.
In a repost of the same video to another Facebook group, the caption stated that the elderly man's face was not censored in the original TikTok video.
FDW Drew Flak for Filming Herself Bathing Elderly Man & Posting it on TikTok
A foreign domestic worker has drawn the ire of the public, after posting a video of herself assisting an elderly man in the bathroom. The original video in TikTok, which failed to censor the man’s face, appears to have been taken down.
It was, however, subsequently reposted to a Facebook group that proffers support for domestic workers in Singapore and their employers. In the video, the helper can be seen bathing the man, who is situated in a seating position. The camera seems to have been set up beforehand. The helper also looks at the camera several times during the clip. Nonetheless, you can view the video here.
Amex Chew 1 Jan at 23:16
Posting on behalf of member about a Helper tik tok video recording while bathing for ah gong !!! What is wrong with her brain ? Members please don’t do such things which I have been advocating all this while.
Hi sir pls post this vedio on our group for warning. This helper take vedio ahkong while ahkong taking bath. Pls Post this for aware other helper this is very wrong attitude !!
Thieving maid served family food mixed with her urine and menstrual blood, gets jail
A photo of a Filipino domestic helper, who silently suffered abuse for more than four years.PHOTO: ST FILE
Mr Neo Poh Goon is an exemplary employer, and I was heartened to read his letter (Treat maids with respect, compassion, Sept 12).
I believe the majority of employers in Singapore treat their domestic helpers well, despite the regular reports about maid abusers.
But no publicity is given to cases where the reverse happens and maids are the ones who had taken advantage of their employers.
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Chef Wan Fires Domestic Helper After Catching Her Walking Around Naked in His House
Stories related to domestic helpers are one that sees no end. From abuse to cheating agents, maids have long been placed in the spotlight of the media.
Taking to Instagram, famed Malaysian chef, Datuk Redzuawan Bin Ismail or fondly known as Chef Wan shared his nightmares with his fairly new domestic helper, highlighting his three weeks of dissatisfaction.
His ‘nightmare’ began when he had to deal with the helper’s tardiness, work ethics and refusal to learn. Here’s what Chef Wan said;
Jealous maid tried to poison baby by mixing detergent into milk powder, gets jail
Feeling jealous as she thought she had a heavier workload than her fellow maid, a domestic worker from Indonesia mixed detergent into milk powder meant for a three-month-old infant.
This was to get the younger maid from Myanmar into trouble as part of her "personal vendetta", the court heard.
The 29-year-old maid was sentenced to three years' jail on Friday (Sep 20) after pleading guilty to one charge of attempted poisoning.
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3 years' jail for maid who mixed detergent into infant's milk powder
A maid purposely mixed detergent into an infant's milk powder as she wanted to get another domestic helper in trouble.
The 29-year-old Indonesian committed the offence as she was jealous of the other maid who was working for her boss' sister-in-law.
The offender felt that the 25-year-old Myanmar national needed only to take care of the baby, while she had to do all household chores.
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Jail for pregnant maid who threatened employer with knife in bid to go home
A pregnant maid was sentenced to four months' jail on Monday (Aug 26) after she threatened her employer with a knife so she could obtain her passport and go home.
Indonesian national Poniyem, who is 41, was married early this year before coming to Singapore to work as a domestic helper, the court heard.
She began working for the victim, whose identity cannot be revealed as her child is a minor protected under the law, from April 2019.
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Jail for pregnant maid who threatened employer with knife in bid to go home
A pregnant foreign domestic worker was jailed four months on Monday (Aug 26), after she threatened her employer with a knife in order to get her passport and go home.
Indonesian national Poniyem, who is 41 and goes by one name, was married early this year before coming to Singapore to work as a domestic helper, the court heard.
From April this year, she began working for the victim, whose identity cannot be revealed as her child is a minor protected under the law.
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Maid’s diary entry allegedly showed she had planned employer’s murder
A month before domestic helper Daryati allegedly murdered her employer at home, she wrote in her diary: “My employer's family is my target. Death!”
Daryati, who is known only by her first name, is accused of killing Madam Seow Kim Choo, 59, at her semi-detached house in Lorong H Telok Kurau on June 7, 2016.
On Tuesday (April 23), Daryati, who is from Indonesia, was charged with one count of murder — an offence that carries the death penalty. Another count of attempting to commit murder was stood down by the court.
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Indonesian maid who punched crying baby, causing her death gets 7 years' jail
An Indonesian maid who punched a baby in the neck, causing her death, before leaving the house to meet her visiting family, was sentenced to seven years' jail on Thursday (Nov 22).
Maryani Usman Utar, 25, pleaded guilty to one charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for causing the death of Richelle Teo Yan Jia, who was a year old in May 2016.
The Teo family was Maryani's first Singaporean employers. She began work for Mr Teo Kok Eng, 46, and his wife in January 2015, and her main priority was to care for Richelle.
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Maid jailed for repeatedly hitting 5-year-old girl with learning difficulties
A maid physically abused her employer's two daughters, aged four and five, repeatedly striking the older child as she practised her writing.
The 27-year-old Myanmar national, who cannot be named due to a gag order, was sentenced to jail on Tuesday (Oct 1) for one year and two months.
She pleaded guilty to six counts of ill-treating a child, with another eight charges taken into consideration.
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Two maids jailed for 7 and 10 months for stealing jewellery, cash from employers
In separate cases, two domestic helpers who stole jewellery and cash from their employers, all to pay off their debts back home in Indonesia, were sentenced to jail on Thursday (Sept 5).
Pipin Ahsani Imama, 30, and Hilda Hakim, 33, both pleaded guilty to six and two counts of theft respectively in the State Courts.
For taking S$22,432 worth of property, Pipin will have to serve 10 months behind bars. She fled her employer’s home in Bukit Batok after being discovered and was arrested two weeks later.
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Maid jailed 4 months for pinching terminally ill elderly woman
Upset with her employer’s elderly mother for throwing tantrums and insulting her, a domestic helper pinched the woman on various parts of her body while she lay bedridden in hospital.
On Wednesday (Sept 11), 28-year-old Lain Ngain was sentenced to four months’ jail after pleading guilty to causing hurt to Madam Wee Keu Hoi on Dec 31 last year.
The 67-year-old died from a heart attack about a month later.
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Maid jailed for throwing 5-year-old boy on the ground twice
A maid who threw a five-year-old child on the ground twice, causing him to feel tenderness over his spine, was jailed for eight months on Tuesday (Aug 20).
The 24-year-old foreign domestic worker from Indonesia, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, pleaded guilty to one charge of ill-treating the child, under the Children and Young Persons Act.
The boy's mother made a police report after seeing a video on Facebook taken by a woman who happened to see the incident.
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Jail for maid who stole S$8,002 from employer, hid cash in her private parts
A domestic helper took S$5,002 from her elderly employer’s safe, put the cash in a small plastic bag and hid it inside her private parts.
The cash was discovered only during a body check at Changi Women’s Prison after she was charged in court with her offences.
On Thursday (May 9), Bajo Nelgielyn Bobita, 28, was sentenced to 16 weeks’ jail after pleading guilty to two charges of theft.
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Maid who stole $5,002 found with money hidden inside her body during prison check
A domestic helper, who stole more than $5,000 from her employer, was found with the money hidden inside her private parts during a body check at Changi Women's Prison.
Filipina Bajo Nelgielyn Bobita, 28, was jailed for 16 weeks on Thursday (May 9) after pleading guilty to two theft charges.
The court heard that businessman Lee See Boon, 69, had employed her to work in his Serangoon flat, and her duties included household cleaning as well as cooking.
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Maid jailed for stealing cash and jewellery worth more than S$22,000 from employer to pay off debts
A maid was sentenced to 10 months' jail on Thursday (Sep 5) for stealing more than S$22,000 in jewellery and cash from her employers to pay off debts in her home country.
Indonesian national Pipin Ahsani Imama, 30, pleaded guilty to six counts of theft, with another 14 taken into consideration.
The court heard that Pipin worked for her employers at their house in Pavilion Park from September 2017 to July 2019, cooking and cleaning for them.
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12 weeks’ jail for maid who scratched infant twins, drawing blood
The domestic helper was angry with her 31-year-old employer after she scolded her for not putting away an ironing board properly and retaliated by abusing the latter’s infant twins.
On Monday (April 8), the 24-year-old maid, who cannot be named to protect her victims’ identities, was jailed for 12 weeks after she pleaded guilty to one charge of voluntarily causing hurt. Another similar charge was taken into consideration for sentencing.
After she was scolded by her employer in November last year, the Indonesian helper decided to annoy her employer’s mother, who was looking after the 14-month-old twins at home. The helper had been employed for a year at the time.
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Singapore Detains 3 Indonesian Maids Over Allegations Of “Funding ISIS”
Singapore has detained three Indonesian maids with out trial beneath powerful safety legal guidelines over allegations they donated funds to help the Islamic State (ISIS) group, authorities stated.
It’s the newest case of allegedly radicalised overseas home helpers arrested within the city-state, and the federal government stated it highlighted the continued attraction of the jihadists’ “violent ideology”.
The trio, who labored as maids for between six and 13 years in Singapore, turned supporters of ISIS after viewing on-line materials final 12 months, together with movies of bomb assaults and beheadings, the inside ministry stated.
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3 radicalised domestic helpers detained under Internal Security Act
The authorities have detained three Indonesian domestic workers who were prepared to join or bear arms for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis) and were gathering support for the terrorist group.
In a statement on Monday (Sept 23), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the trio, who knew one another and had worked in Singapore for between six and 13 years, have been detained under the Internal Security Act as investigations into their terrorism-financing activities are in progress.
Arrested last month, they are the first domestic helpers to be given detention orders under the Internal Security Act, Singapore’s main national-security law.
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Maids detained under ISA: Those open to radicalisation often lonely, seek sense of belonging, says expert
Many terrorist groups hook new members by initially appearing to espouse mainstream versions of Islam and offering recruits a sense of belonging, and foreign domestic workers may not grasp the distinction between this and more radical ideology that eventually creeps in.PHOTO: ST FILE
Religion rarely has anything to do with radicalisation, said Dr Noor Huda Ismail, who works to rehabilitate radicalised individuals.
Rather, those who buy into radical ideology are usually lonely and seeking a community to belong to, often online, said the visiting fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
"It starts out normal, but then they go down a rabbit hole," he said. "They go in a completely different direction from where they started."
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Maid claims trial to employer's murder, allegedly stabbed and cut her nearly 100 times
A maid accused of murdering her employer by stabbing and cutting her nearly 100 times allegedly planned the deed weeks earlier, writing in her diary that she had to "be brave" & carry out her plan quickly.
Indonesian national Daryati, now 26, had been working for her 59-yr-old employer Madam Seow Kim Choo at her home in Telok Kurau for only 2 months in 2016 when she allegedly killed her as she was homesick and longing for her lover in Hong Kong.
She earned S$580 a month, including S$80 as compensation for not having days off. Daryati split her duties, such as cooking, cleaning and doing laundry for some family members, with another Indonesian maid.
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'Homesick' maid on trial for murder of employer
Indonesian maid Daryati (above) hatched a ruthless plan to kill her employer at the 3-storey Telok Kurau home as early as May 12, 2016, says Deputy Public Prosecutor Wong Kok Weng
A month after starting work for a family in Telok Kurau, an Indonesian maid became so homesick & filled with longing for her lover in Hong Kong, that she hatched a "ruthless plan" to kill her employer.
Daryati, 26, wanted to get her passport and to steal money so that she could return home, prosecutors told the High Court yesterday on the first day of her murder trial.
She is facing the death penalty for stabbing and slashing Madam Seow Kim Choo on Jun 7, 2016, leaving the 59-year-old woman with 98 knife wounds.
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Homesick maid on trial for brutal murder of boss
A month after starting work for a family in Telok Kurau, an Indonesian maid became so homesick & filled with longing for her lover in Hong Kong that she hatched a "ruthless plan" to kill her employer.
Daryati, 26, wanted to get her passport and steal money to return home, prosecutors told the High Court yesterday on the 1st day of her murder trial.
She faces the death penalty for stabbing and slashing Madam Seow Kim Choo on June 7, 2016, leaving the 59-year-old with 98 knife wounds.
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Maid to be charged with Tampines murder
Police accompany the Indonesian maid (centre). PHOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES
A 37-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the death of a 77-year-old woman at Block 276, Tampines Street 22, on Monday afternoon.
The New Paper understands the suspect is the Indonesian maid who lived with the victim.
That day, a neighbour heard the maid screaming in the fifth-storey flat. He then saw Madam Tay Quee Lang slumped in a wheelchair with a 20cm-long knife lodged in her throat.
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Maid to be charged with murder over elderly's death in Tampines
A 37-year-old maid will be charged with murder after a 77-year-old woman was found dead in her Tampines flat on Monday (13 Feburary). She will be charged in court on Wednesday (15 February). If convicted, she faces the death penalty.
The victim was found motionless with injuries on her throat in her fifth floor unit at Block 276 Tampines Street 22 at 2.10pm by police, who were responding to a call for assistance. She was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.
According to media reports, an Indonesian maid was at home when the victim was found dead. The maid was crying and shouting, and a neighbour helped her to call the police.
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Indonesian domestic worker to be charged for murder of 77-year-old woman at Tampines
Police officers gathered outside a flat in Tampines (Source : The Straits Times)
An Indonesian domestic worker has been arrested for a murder of a 77-year-old woman in her living room of flat at Block 276, Tampines Street 22 on Monday (13 February) afternoon.
The Police arrested the domestic worker on Tuesday (14 February) and she will be charged in court for murder on Wednesday (15 February).
The elderly, who was identified Madam Tay Quee Lang, has been wheelchair-bound since last year after she experienced a fall. She lived in the flat with her husband Mr Tan Hee Seng, who is in his 70s. The domestic worker has only been working for the family for the last month.
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Indian origin woman, daughter charged with murder in Singapore
Gaiyathiri, whose husband is believed to have worked in the police force, has a minor daughter.
Maid's death: Arrest of woman and daughter shocks neighbours
A mother & daughter were yesterday accused of murdering their Myanmar maid.
Housewife Prema Naraynasamy, 58, & 36-yr-old Gaiyathiri Murugayan showed little emotion when charged in court with killing Ms Piang Ngaih Don, a 24-yr-old mother of a young child, in a 9-floor flat at Block 145 in Bishan some time between Jul 25 and 26.
But Gaiyathiri was seen weeping after she spotted family members in the public gallery.
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Mother, daughter charged with maid's murder in Bishan
A WOMAN & her mother were charged in court yesterday with murdering their Myanmar domestic worker at their home in Bishan earlier this week.
No plea was taken from Gaiyathiri Murugayan, 36, and Prema S. Naraynasamy, 58, both housewives.
They are alleged to have committed murder by causing the death of Piang Ngaih Don, 24, at their 9-floor flat at Block 145 Bishan Street 11 between Jul 25 and 26.
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Two women charged with murder
The employer (the boy’s mother) noticed that the water in the flask appeared to be yellowish in colour and that it tasted odd. Both her husband and her mother-in-law also drank the water and agreed that it tasted and looked funny. They kept the flask of contaminated water in their room overnight and the next morning the pungent smell was overwhelming. The maid however denied any wrongdoing.
Two days later, the employer found the maid pouring the contents of the flask into the sink and took her to the maid agency, where she eventually admitted to the crime.
A 23-yr-old Indonesian maid was arrested on Tue night (Jun 7) after she allegedly stabbed the couple who employed her, killing a woman and leaving her husband requiring surgery for his wounds.
Neighbours said they heard little until the peace of a private estate in Telok Kurau was shattered by ambulances and police cars arriving at the 3-storey semi-detached house at 50C, Lorong H, where the alleged stabbings took place after 8pm.
The man who was stabbed - believed to be Mr Ong Kian Soon, 57 - was eventually taken to Changi General Hospital (CGH).
Maid arrested after Telok Kurau woman is killed in bathroom
3 men on motorbikes were riding past a semi-detached house in Telok Kurau last night when they heard shouts for help.
They parked their motorbikes in front of the house and saw a man struggling with a woman in the front porch.
The gate was open and the man told them to grab hold of the woman. Two of them went to help him while the third called the police.
Past cases of maid violence:
Maid gets 18 years' jail for killing employer, socialite Nancy Gan
Tragic Mothers’ Day for family – Indonesian maid allegedly killed 1-year-old baby under her care
It was a sad Mothers’ Day for one mother living in Simei. Chinese newspaper Wanbao reported that a baby girl, who celebrated her one-year-old birthday just five days before, had died under mysterious circumstances with deep bruise marks around her neck. The family believes that the baby must have been strangled or suffocated to death.
The tragedy happened yesterday (8 May) at about 9.20 pm in a 6th floor unit in Block 225 Simei Street 4. The suspect in the death of the child is the family’s 30-year-old foreign domestic worker. The maid is from Indonesia and her name is Maryani Bte Usman Utar.
The maid was missing when the gruesome death of the baby was discovered, and had remained uncontactable since. Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department arrested her this afternoon in the Marina Bay area.
28 YEAR-OLD MAID JAILED FOR RAPING 14 YEAR-OLD BOY POSITIVE FOR STD
In a shocking twist to an already sensational case, it was revealed in court that the maid who raped the 14 year-old boy, her employer's son, had tested positive for Chlamydia trachomatis, a sexually transmitted disease (STD). The boy has not tested positive for the STD yet, but prosecutors argued that the child could have escaped infection by sheer luck and this should not lighten the burden of guilt on the accused.
Maids risk jail by taking on part-time jobs as cleaners, KTV hostesses
Maids at an employment agency in 2015. Some maids are pressed by their employers to work for other households or for the employers' own businesses.PHOTO: ST FILE
Every Sunday, domestic helper Jody (not her real name) whips up a few of her well-loved Filipino recipes, but she is not preparing a meal for her employer's household.
Instead, the middle-aged woman is running an illegal makeshift food business on her day off.
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2 Filipino maids fined, banned from Singapore for moonlighting as middlemen for moneylending
Two Filipino foreign domestic workers have been fined for working illegally as middlemen for a moneylender, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said in a statement on Friday (Sept 27).
Jenalyn Masirag Gannaban, 39, and Obillo Arlene Manale, 50, had assisted other maids to secure loans from a licensed moneylender and earned monthly commissions of between $100 and $400. They were sentenced in the State Courts on Thursday for working without a valid work pass under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act.
Jenalyn and Obillo were fined $8,000 and $5,000 respectively. They will have their work permits revoked and will be barred from entering and working in Singapore.
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Maids' Sunday side business on weekends against the law
Counterfeit apparel of famous brands such as Adidas, Under Armour and Levi's being sold outside a fourth-storey shop at Lucky Plaza. Those found guilty of distributing goods with falsely applied trademarks for the purpose of trade can be jailed up to five years, fined up to $100,000, or both. PHOTO: ST READER
They perform domestic chores for their employers on weekdays. But on weekends, they are their own bosses - selling counterfeit luxury handbags, unsafe slimming pills and prescription-only contraceptives.
At least 10 maids are using the shop spaces of Lucky Plaza retailers to peddle their illegal wares on their days off, checks by The Straits Times have found. And over 100 more are doing so online.
Some selling fake branded goods, banned contraceptives and slimming products at rented spaces in Lucky Plaza.
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A maid served the family she was working for rice and water mixed with some of her urine, saliva and menstrual blood, hoping that they would agree with her and not scold her for her work performance.
She also stole a total of S$13,300 from her employer's safe between August 2017 and June 2018.
30-year-old Indonesian national Diana, who goes by only one name, was on Monday (Jan 13) sentenced to six months and seven weeks in jail. She pleaded to two counts of mischief and one count of theft, with a fourth charge taken into consideration.
Two maids jailed for 7 and 10 months for stealing jewellery, cash from employers
In separate cases, two domestic helpers who stole jewellery and cash from their employers, all to pay off their debts back home in Indonesia, were sentenced to jail on Thursday (Sept 5).
Pipin Ahsani Imama, 30, and Hilda Hakim, 33, both pleaded guilty to six and two counts of theft respectively in the State Courts. For taking S$22,432 worth of property, Pipin will have to serve 10 months behind bars. She fled her employer’s home in Bukit Batok after being discovered and was arrested two weeks later.
Meanwhile, Hilda was sentenced to seven months’ jail for stealing S$15,517 in gold jewellery as well as foreign and local currency.
Homesick maid allegedly attacks employer with tablet and knife during dispute
A 34-year-old maid allegedly attacked her employer with a tablet and knife after a dispute, leaving the latter with multiple injuries.
The incident occurred in a seventh-floor unit at 89 Commonwealth Close on Friday (Jan 17), at around 10.30am. Police were alerted to the case of voluntarily causing grievous hurt by dangerous weapon at around 11.10am by the victim, who said that her foreign domestic worker had assaulted her with a knife.
Residents told Lianhe Wanbao that a woman in her 60s lived in the flat with her mother, who is in her 80s, and their maid. All three women are from Myanmar.
Maid arrested after CCTV recording shows her dipping toddler's hand in hot pot repeatedly
The maid had initially claimed it was an accident in which the baby touched a hot cooking pot in the kitchen. However, after viewing the footage, the maid said that she had hurt the child so she could go home. PHOTOS: AMY LOW MEI LIANG/FACEBOOK
The police have arrested a 30-year-old maid for hurting a 16-month-old toddler under her care.
The maid was arrested on Jan 15 at her employer's home at Block 992B Buangkok Link.
Details of the incident surfaced on Tuesday (Jan 21) after Facebook user Amy Low, 40, uploaded a 46-second-long video recording from a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera in her home. The footage shows the maid dipping the toddler's left hand into a pot on the stove repeatedly. The baby girl is heard crying in the video.
Maid forces baby's hand into boiling pot, says agency told her to do it
The Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said it is aware of Low’s Facebook post. It is investigating the employment agency for a possible breach of the Employment Agencies Act
A Singapore Police Force spokesperson confirmed that the employer has lodged a report against the employment agency and said they are looking into the matter.
One Singapore mum thought her maid had simply been careless when her baby daughter ended up with second-degree burns. But the truth was far more sinister.
In a now-viral Facebook post, Amy Low, 40, recounted how her maid had burnt her baby's hand on purpose in a bid to get sent home and warned other parents to keep a close eye on their domestic helpers.
Maid arrested after allegedly dipping baby's hand into boiling water
A maid has been arrested after she allegedly dipped the hand of a 16-month-old baby girl repeatedly into boiling water
The 30-year-old from Myanmar, who had worked for the family for about a month, was caught on video appearing to dip the baby's hand into a pot on the stove about four times.
The toddler, who could be heard wailing loudly in the 45-second clip, suffered second-degree burns.
The police said yesterday that the maid was arrested for voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means at about 10.50am last Wednesday at a housing block in north-eastern Singapore.
Maid in Buangkok arrested after allegedly scalding toddler with boiling pot so that she could go home
A foreign domestic worker who allegedly scalded a 16-month-old toddler on purpose so that she could return home to Myanmar has been arrested
The police told Stomp that they were alerted to a case of voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous means at Block 992B Buangkok Link on Jan 15, at around 10.50am.
"A 30-year-old woman was arrested in relation to the case," said a police spokesman, adding that investigations are ongoing.
Accounts executive Amy Low, 40, shared distressing photos of the injuries that her daughter suffered in the incident that occurred in her Buangkok home on Jan 14.
Maid, 34, arrested for attacking employer with knife
A quarrel with her domestic worker left a woman with multiple injuries on Friday (Jan 17).
According to Lianhe Wanbao, the pair got into an argument that morning over the maid's request to return to her home in Myanmar.
She was believed to have attacked her employer with a tablet and a knife and fled the scene after the scuffle.
Jail for maid who mixed her menstrual blood and other bodily fluids into family's food and water
An Indonesian maid working for a family in Punggol purposely tainted their drinking water and rice with her urine, saliva and menstrual blood, a district court heard on Monday (Jan 13).
The family ended up consuming the contaminated items.
Diana, who goes by only one name, believed that by drinking the water, they would agree with whatever she did and would not scold her over her performance.
Maid abuse? What about the reverse?
Mr Neo Poh Goon is an exemplary employer, and I was heartened to read his letter (Treat maids with respect, compassion, Sept 12).
I believe the majority of employers in Singapore treat their domestic helpers well, despite the regular reports about maid abusers.
But no publicity is given to cases where the reverse happens and maids are the ones who had taken advantage of their employers.
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Chef Wan Fires Domestic Helper After Catching Her Walking Around Naked in His House
Stories related to domestic helpers are one that sees no end. From abuse to cheating agents, maids have long been placed in the spotlight of the media.
Taking to Instagram, famed Malaysian chef, Datuk Redzuawan Bin Ismail or fondly known as Chef Wan shared his nightmares with his fairly new domestic helper, highlighting his three weeks of dissatisfaction.
His ‘nightmare’ began when he had to deal with the helper’s tardiness, work ethics and refusal to learn. Here’s what Chef Wan said;
“After three weeks of me training her, I began to notice that she simply refused to learn and kept repeating the same mistakes. Each day she is supposed to start work from 7am to 5pm, but she only comes out of her room at 8am.”read more
Jealous maid tried to poison baby by mixing detergent into milk powder, gets jail
Feeling jealous as she thought she had a heavier workload than her fellow maid, a domestic worker from Indonesia mixed detergent into milk powder meant for a three-month-old infant.
This was to get the younger maid from Myanmar into trouble as part of her "personal vendetta", the court heard.
The 29-year-old maid was sentenced to three years' jail on Friday (Sep 20) after pleading guilty to one charge of attempted poisoning.
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3 years' jail for maid who mixed detergent into infant's milk powder
A maid purposely mixed detergent into an infant's milk powder as she wanted to get another domestic helper in trouble.
The 29-year-old Indonesian committed the offence as she was jealous of the other maid who was working for her boss' sister-in-law.
The offender felt that the 25-year-old Myanmar national needed only to take care of the baby, while she had to do all household chores.
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Jail for pregnant maid who threatened employer with knife in bid to go home
A pregnant maid was sentenced to four months' jail on Monday (Aug 26) after she threatened her employer with a knife so she could obtain her passport and go home.
Indonesian national Poniyem, who is 41, was married early this year before coming to Singapore to work as a domestic helper, the court heard.
She began working for the victim, whose identity cannot be revealed as her child is a minor protected under the law, from April 2019.
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Jail for pregnant maid who threatened employer with knife in bid to go home
A pregnant foreign domestic worker was jailed four months on Monday (Aug 26), after she threatened her employer with a knife in order to get her passport and go home.
Indonesian national Poniyem, who is 41 and goes by one name, was married early this year before coming to Singapore to work as a domestic helper, the court heard.
From April this year, she began working for the victim, whose identity cannot be revealed as her child is a minor protected under the law.
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Maid’s diary entry allegedly showed she had planned employer’s murder
A month before domestic helper Daryati allegedly murdered her employer at home, she wrote in her diary: “My employer's family is my target. Death!”
Daryati, who is known only by her first name, is accused of killing Madam Seow Kim Choo, 59, at her semi-detached house in Lorong H Telok Kurau on June 7, 2016.
On Tuesday (April 23), Daryati, who is from Indonesia, was charged with one count of murder — an offence that carries the death penalty. Another count of attempting to commit murder was stood down by the court.
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Indonesian maid who punched crying baby, causing her death gets 7 years' jail
An Indonesian maid who punched a baby in the neck, causing her death, before leaving the house to meet her visiting family, was sentenced to seven years' jail on Thursday (Nov 22).
Maryani Usman Utar, 25, pleaded guilty to one charge of culpable homicide not amounting to murder for causing the death of Richelle Teo Yan Jia, who was a year old in May 2016.
The Teo family was Maryani's first Singaporean employers. She began work for Mr Teo Kok Eng, 46, and his wife in January 2015, and her main priority was to care for Richelle.
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Maid jailed for repeatedly hitting 5-year-old girl with learning difficulties
A maid physically abused her employer's two daughters, aged four and five, repeatedly striking the older child as she practised her writing.
The 27-year-old Myanmar national, who cannot be named due to a gag order, was sentenced to jail on Tuesday (Oct 1) for one year and two months.
She pleaded guilty to six counts of ill-treating a child, with another eight charges taken into consideration.
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Two maids jailed for 7 and 10 months for stealing jewellery, cash from employers
In separate cases, two domestic helpers who stole jewellery and cash from their employers, all to pay off their debts back home in Indonesia, were sentenced to jail on Thursday (Sept 5).
Pipin Ahsani Imama, 30, and Hilda Hakim, 33, both pleaded guilty to six and two counts of theft respectively in the State Courts.
For taking S$22,432 worth of property, Pipin will have to serve 10 months behind bars. She fled her employer’s home in Bukit Batok after being discovered and was arrested two weeks later.
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Maid jailed 4 months for pinching terminally ill elderly woman
Upset with her employer’s elderly mother for throwing tantrums and insulting her, a domestic helper pinched the woman on various parts of her body while she lay bedridden in hospital.
On Wednesday (Sept 11), 28-year-old Lain Ngain was sentenced to four months’ jail after pleading guilty to causing hurt to Madam Wee Keu Hoi on Dec 31 last year.
The 67-year-old died from a heart attack about a month later.
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Maid jailed for throwing 5-year-old boy on the ground twice
A maid who threw a five-year-old child on the ground twice, causing him to feel tenderness over his spine, was jailed for eight months on Tuesday (Aug 20).
The 24-year-old foreign domestic worker from Indonesia, who cannot be named to protect the identity of the victim, pleaded guilty to one charge of ill-treating the child, under the Children and Young Persons Act.
The boy's mother made a police report after seeing a video on Facebook taken by a woman who happened to see the incident.
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Jail for maid who stole S$8,002 from employer, hid cash in her private parts
A domestic helper took S$5,002 from her elderly employer’s safe, put the cash in a small plastic bag and hid it inside her private parts.
The cash was discovered only during a body check at Changi Women’s Prison after she was charged in court with her offences.
On Thursday (May 9), Bajo Nelgielyn Bobita, 28, was sentenced to 16 weeks’ jail after pleading guilty to two charges of theft.
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Maid who stole $5,002 found with money hidden inside her body during prison check
A domestic helper, who stole more than $5,000 from her employer, was found with the money hidden inside her private parts during a body check at Changi Women's Prison.
Filipina Bajo Nelgielyn Bobita, 28, was jailed for 16 weeks on Thursday (May 9) after pleading guilty to two theft charges.
The court heard that businessman Lee See Boon, 69, had employed her to work in his Serangoon flat, and her duties included household cleaning as well as cooking.
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Maid jailed for stealing cash and jewellery worth more than S$22,000 from employer to pay off debts
A maid was sentenced to 10 months' jail on Thursday (Sep 5) for stealing more than S$22,000 in jewellery and cash from her employers to pay off debts in her home country.
Indonesian national Pipin Ahsani Imama, 30, pleaded guilty to six counts of theft, with another 14 taken into consideration.
The court heard that Pipin worked for her employers at their house in Pavilion Park from September 2017 to July 2019, cooking and cleaning for them.
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12 weeks’ jail for maid who scratched infant twins, drawing blood
The domestic helper was angry with her 31-year-old employer after she scolded her for not putting away an ironing board properly and retaliated by abusing the latter’s infant twins.
On Monday (April 8), the 24-year-old maid, who cannot be named to protect her victims’ identities, was jailed for 12 weeks after she pleaded guilty to one charge of voluntarily causing hurt. Another similar charge was taken into consideration for sentencing.
After she was scolded by her employer in November last year, the Indonesian helper decided to annoy her employer’s mother, who was looking after the 14-month-old twins at home. The helper had been employed for a year at the time.
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Singapore Detains 3 Indonesian Maids Over Allegations Of “Funding ISIS”
Singapore has detained three Indonesian maids with out trial beneath powerful safety legal guidelines over allegations they donated funds to help the Islamic State (ISIS) group, authorities stated.
It’s the newest case of allegedly radicalised overseas home helpers arrested within the city-state, and the federal government stated it highlighted the continued attraction of the jihadists’ “violent ideology”.
The trio, who labored as maids for between six and 13 years in Singapore, turned supporters of ISIS after viewing on-line materials final 12 months, together with movies of bomb assaults and beheadings, the inside ministry stated.
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3 radicalised domestic helpers detained under Internal Security Act
The Islamic State logo is depicted on a wall in Grogol, Central Java, in a file photo from 2014
The authorities have detained three Indonesian domestic workers who were prepared to join or bear arms for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (Isis) and were gathering support for the terrorist group.
In a statement on Monday (Sept 23), the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) said the trio, who knew one another and had worked in Singapore for between six and 13 years, have been detained under the Internal Security Act as investigations into their terrorism-financing activities are in progress.
Arrested last month, they are the first domestic helpers to be given detention orders under the Internal Security Act, Singapore’s main national-security law.
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Maids detained under ISA: Those open to radicalisation often lonely, seek sense of belonging, says expert
Religion rarely has anything to do with radicalisation, said Dr Noor Huda Ismail, who works to rehabilitate radicalised individuals.
Rather, those who buy into radical ideology are usually lonely and seeking a community to belong to, often online, said the visiting fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
"It starts out normal, but then they go down a rabbit hole," he said. "They go in a completely different direction from where they started."
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Maid claims trial to employer's murder, allegedly stabbed and cut her nearly 100 times
A maid accused of murdering her employer by stabbing and cutting her nearly 100 times allegedly planned the deed weeks earlier, writing in her diary that she had to "be brave" & carry out her plan quickly.
Indonesian national Daryati, now 26, had been working for her 59-yr-old employer Madam Seow Kim Choo at her home in Telok Kurau for only 2 months in 2016 when she allegedly killed her as she was homesick and longing for her lover in Hong Kong.
She earned S$580 a month, including S$80 as compensation for not having days off. Daryati split her duties, such as cooking, cleaning and doing laundry for some family members, with another Indonesian maid.
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'Homesick' maid on trial for murder of employer
A month after starting work for a family in Telok Kurau, an Indonesian maid became so homesick & filled with longing for her lover in Hong Kong, that she hatched a "ruthless plan" to kill her employer.
Daryati, 26, wanted to get her passport and to steal money so that she could return home, prosecutors told the High Court yesterday on the first day of her murder trial.
She is facing the death penalty for stabbing and slashing Madam Seow Kim Choo on Jun 7, 2016, leaving the 59-year-old woman with 98 knife wounds.
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Homesick maid on trial for brutal murder of boss
A month after starting work for a family in Telok Kurau, an Indonesian maid became so homesick & filled with longing for her lover in Hong Kong that she hatched a "ruthless plan" to kill her employer.
Daryati, 26, wanted to get her passport and steal money to return home, prosecutors told the High Court yesterday on the 1st day of her murder trial.
She faces the death penalty for stabbing and slashing Madam Seow Kim Choo on June 7, 2016, leaving the 59-year-old with 98 knife wounds.
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Maid to be charged with Tampines murder
A 37-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the death of a 77-year-old woman at Block 276, Tampines Street 22, on Monday afternoon.
The New Paper understands the suspect is the Indonesian maid who lived with the victim.
That day, a neighbour heard the maid screaming in the fifth-storey flat. He then saw Madam Tay Quee Lang slumped in a wheelchair with a 20cm-long knife lodged in her throat.
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Maid to be charged with murder over elderly's death in Tampines
A 37-year-old maid will be charged with murder after a 77-year-old woman was found dead in her Tampines flat on Monday (13 Feburary). She will be charged in court on Wednesday (15 February). If convicted, she faces the death penalty.
The victim was found motionless with injuries on her throat in her fifth floor unit at Block 276 Tampines Street 22 at 2.10pm by police, who were responding to a call for assistance. She was pronounced dead by paramedics at the scene.
According to media reports, an Indonesian maid was at home when the victim was found dead. The maid was crying and shouting, and a neighbour helped her to call the police.
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Indonesian domestic worker to be charged for murder of 77-year-old woman at Tampines
An Indonesian domestic worker has been arrested for a murder of a 77-year-old woman in her living room of flat at Block 276, Tampines Street 22 on Monday (13 February) afternoon.
The Police arrested the domestic worker on Tuesday (14 February) and she will be charged in court for murder on Wednesday (15 February).
The elderly, who was identified Madam Tay Quee Lang, has been wheelchair-bound since last year after she experienced a fall. She lived in the flat with her husband Mr Tan Hee Seng, who is in his 70s. The domestic worker has only been working for the family for the last month.
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A police officer sits between Gaiyathiri Murugayan (left) and her mother Prema Naraynasamy, who were charged with murdering their Myanmar domestic worker at their home earlier this week
A 58-year-old woman and her 36-year-old daughter have been charged with murdering a Burmese maid at their home here and may face death penalty.
If convicted of murder, the duo will face the death penalty.
Prema Naraynasamy and Gaiyathiri Murugayan were arrested on Wednesday for allegedly murdering Piang Ngaih Don (24) earlier this week, the report said. According to police, they received a call on Tuesday morning for assistance. When they arrived, Piang was found dead. A court has extended their police remand. Both the accused were produced in the court on Thursday. If they are convicted of murder, the duo will face the death penalty.
Gaiyathiri, whose husband is believed to have worked in the police force, has a minor daughter.
Maid's death: Arrest of woman and daughter shocks neighbours
A mother & daughter were yesterday accused of murdering their Myanmar maid.
Housewife Prema Naraynasamy, 58, & 36-yr-old Gaiyathiri Murugayan showed little emotion when charged in court with killing Ms Piang Ngaih Don, a 24-yr-old mother of a young child, in a 9-floor flat at Block 145 in Bishan some time between Jul 25 and 26.
But Gaiyathiri was seen weeping after she spotted family members in the public gallery.
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Mother, daughter charged with maid's murder in Bishan
A WOMAN & her mother were charged in court yesterday with murdering their Myanmar domestic worker at their home in Bishan earlier this week.
No plea was taken from Gaiyathiri Murugayan, 36, and Prema S. Naraynasamy, 58, both housewives.
They are alleged to have committed murder by causing the death of Piang Ngaih Don, 24, at their 9-floor flat at Block 145 Bishan Street 11 between Jul 25 and 26.
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Two women charged with murder
ACCUSED: Gaiyathiri Murugayan (left) and Prema Naraynasamy (right) were yesterday charged with murder FOTO: THE STRAITS TIMES
2 women were charged with murder yesterday.
Gaiyathiri Murugayan, 36, and Prema S. Naraynasamy, 58, are accused of murdering Ms Piang Ngaih Don at their Bishan flat sometime between Monday and Tuesday.
Neighbours said Ms Piang, 24, was a domestic worker from Myanmar who had started working for the family about a year ago.
Indonesian maid pee-ed into 4-year-old child’s milk bottle to get-back at employer
Shin Min Daily News reported that an Indonesian maid was so upset at being scolded by her employer that she retaliated by mixing her pee with the milk of a toddler she was entrusted with. The employer discovered something fishy at about 12pm on 16 October last year at 5 Pine Close, near Old Airport Road.
The employer (the boy’s mother) noticed that the water in the flask appeared to be yellowish in colour and that it tasted odd. Both her husband and her mother-in-law also drank the water and agreed that it tasted and looked funny. They kept the flask of contaminated water in their room overnight and the next morning the pungent smell was overwhelming. The maid however denied any wrongdoing.
Two days later, the employer found the maid pouring the contents of the flask into the sink and took her to the maid agency, where she eventually admitted to the crime.
Woman dead, husband injured in incident at Telok Kurau; Indonesian maid arrested
A 23-yr-old Indonesian maid was arrested on Tue night (Jun 7) after she allegedly stabbed the couple who employed her, killing a woman and leaving her husband requiring surgery for his wounds.
Neighbours said they heard little until the peace of a private estate in Telok Kurau was shattered by ambulances and police cars arriving at the 3-storey semi-detached house at 50C, Lorong H, where the alleged stabbings took place after 8pm.
The man who was stabbed - believed to be Mr Ong Kian Soon, 57 - was eventually taken to Changi General Hospital (CGH).
Maid arrested after Telok Kurau woman is killed in bathroom
3 men on motorbikes were riding past a semi-detached house in Telok Kurau last night when they heard shouts for help.
They parked their motorbikes in front of the house and saw a man struggling with a woman in the front porch.
The gate was open and the man told them to grab hold of the woman. Two of them went to help him while the third called the police.
Past cases of maid violence:
- May 31, 2016 - Indonesian maid Dewi Sukowati, 20, was sentenced to 18 years' jail
- Dec 10, 2015 - Indonesian maid Yati, 24, was sentenced to 10 years' jail
- Jul 27, 2015 - Myanmar maid Than Than Win, 25, was sentenced to 13 years' jail
- May 25, 2015 - Indonesian maid Tuti Aeliyah, 30, was sentenced to 12 years' jail
Maid gets 18 years' jail for killing employer, socialite Nancy Gan
Dewi Sukowati (above) was given 18 years' jail for culpable homicide not amounting to murder of Madam Nancy Gan.FOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE
An Indonesian domestic helper who said she was hit by her employer retaliated by swinging the 69-yr-old woman's head against a wall and then drowning her in the bungalow's swimming pool.
Indonesian Dewi Sukowati, 20, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 18 years' jail yesterday for culpable homicide not amounting to murder.
The court heard that at about 7.30am on March 19, 2014, Dewi, then 18, had taken a glass of water on a tray to socialite and porcelain artist Nancy Gan Wan Geok at her home in Victoria Park Road. It was her 6th day at work.
Tragic Mothers’ Day for family – Indonesian maid allegedly killed 1-year-old baby under her care
It was a sad Mothers’ Day for one mother living in Simei. Chinese newspaper Wanbao reported that a baby girl, who celebrated her one-year-old birthday just five days before, had died under mysterious circumstances with deep bruise marks around her neck. The family believes that the baby must have been strangled or suffocated to death.
The tragedy happened yesterday (8 May) at about 9.20 pm in a 6th floor unit in Block 225 Simei Street 4. The suspect in the death of the child is the family’s 30-year-old foreign domestic worker. The maid is from Indonesia and her name is Maryani Bte Usman Utar.
The maid was missing when the gruesome death of the baby was discovered, and had remained uncontactable since. Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Department arrested her this afternoon in the Marina Bay area.
28 YEAR-OLD MAID JAILED FOR RAPING 14 YEAR-OLD BOY POSITIVE FOR STD
Deputy Public Prosecutor Nicholas Lai urged the court to slap at least 10 months jail on the month, citing aggravating factor such as the maid's STD infection, her breach of trust and the unprotected nature of the intercourse. The maid was eventually sentenced to 10 months jail, but will have her sentence dated back to 7th September. She could have been jailed for up to 10 years and fined for having sex with a person under 16 years old.
An Indonesian domestic worker has been jailed 10 months for having sex with a 14 year-old boy, who is the son of her employer and exactly half her age.
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Maid and 2 foreign workers take S$5 million from elderly with dementia
In what appears like a repeat of China national Yang Yin’s case, 3 foreigners are accused of unlawfully taking S$5 million of a rich elderly who suffered from dementia. The rich elderly was a retired paediatric doctor with SGH and Associate Professor with NUS, Dr Freda Paul. The accused are her Sri Lankan maid, Arulampalam Kanthimathy, and two Indian nationals, Kulandaivelu Malayaperumal (Perumal) and Gopal Subramanian, who used to be construction workers.
The three claimed that Dr Freda gave them S$5 million between January and July in 2010 but the retired doctor was earlier diagnosed of dementia and incapable of making financial decisions on December 2009 by a psychiatrist. Relatives of Dr Freda filed a lawsuit to recover the S$5 million on this basis.
Lawyer Philip Jeyaretnam, son of former opposition MP JBJ, and another distant relative filed the lawsuit against the three foreigners. The Sri Lankan maid has since gone back home while the other two Indian nationals has become Singapore Permanent Residents.
INDON MAID STOLE EMPLOYER'S VALUABLES & ESCAPED S'PORE ON HER OFF-DAY
The Indonesia maid has been working for me about 6 months. She is very good in acting. Like a normal person just do her job to look after our new born baby girl and housework.
During the weekdays my wife need to sent my 2 years old son to the child care centre and do marketing for the daily need so we leave the maid and the baby at home. We trust her that she will do her job. One Saturday evening we wanted to past her the work permit for her off day the next day but we couldn't find the work permit and the passport!
When we ask her and she said that her work permit is with her and claim that the passport is with us. After that we decided to search for the passport in our room but we could not find it. The next day the maid go for her off day and we try to search for her passport again but cannot find it than we decide to check our locked drawer to check if our gold and money if is still inside but to our surprise our gold in a bag n cash is missing!!!!
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The three claimed that Dr Freda gave them S$5 million between January and July in 2010 but the retired doctor was earlier diagnosed of dementia and incapable of making financial decisions on December 2009 by a psychiatrist. Relatives of Dr Freda filed a lawsuit to recover the S$5 million on this basis.
Lawyer Philip Jeyaretnam, son of former opposition MP JBJ, and another distant relative filed the lawsuit against the three foreigners. The Sri Lankan maid has since gone back home while the other two Indian nationals has become Singapore Permanent Residents.
INDON MAID STOLE EMPLOYER'S VALUABLES & ESCAPED S'PORE ON HER OFF-DAY
The Indonesia maid has been working for me about 6 months. She is very good in acting. Like a normal person just do her job to look after our new born baby girl and housework.
During the weekdays my wife need to sent my 2 years old son to the child care centre and do marketing for the daily need so we leave the maid and the baby at home. We trust her that she will do her job. One Saturday evening we wanted to past her the work permit for her off day the next day but we couldn't find the work permit and the passport!
When we ask her and she said that her work permit is with her and claim that the passport is with us. After that we decided to search for the passport in our room but we could not find it. The next day the maid go for her off day and we try to search for her passport again but cannot find it than we decide to check our locked drawer to check if our gold and money if is still inside but to our surprise our gold in a bag n cash is missing!!!!
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Maids risk jail by taking on part-time jobs as cleaners, KTV hostesses
Every Sunday, domestic helper Jody (not her real name) whips up a few of her well-loved Filipino recipes, but she is not preparing a meal for her employer's household.
Instead, the middle-aged woman is running an illegal makeshift food business on her day off.
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2 Filipino maids fined, banned from Singapore for moonlighting as middlemen for moneylending
Two Filipino foreign domestic workers have been fined for working illegally as middlemen for a moneylender, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said in a statement on Friday (Sept 27).
Jenalyn Masirag Gannaban, 39, and Obillo Arlene Manale, 50, had assisted other maids to secure loans from a licensed moneylender and earned monthly commissions of between $100 and $400. They were sentenced in the State Courts on Thursday for working without a valid work pass under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act.
Jenalyn and Obillo were fined $8,000 and $5,000 respectively. They will have their work permits revoked and will be barred from entering and working in Singapore.
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Maids' Sunday side business on weekends against the law
They perform domestic chores for their employers on weekdays. But on weekends, they are their own bosses - selling counterfeit luxury handbags, unsafe slimming pills and prescription-only contraceptives.
At least 10 maids are using the shop spaces of Lucky Plaza retailers to peddle their illegal wares on their days off, checks by The Straits Times have found. And over 100 more are doing so online.
Some selling fake branded goods, banned contraceptives and slimming products at rented spaces in Lucky Plaza.
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Police officer's wife admits to killing Myanmar maid
Gaiyathiri Murugayan (centre), is escorted from her Bishan flat in 2016 after the death of her 24-year-old Myanmar domestic helper Piang Ngaih Don. Photo: Today Online
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The wife of a Singaporean police officer has admitted to starving, torturing and ultimately killing her domestic worker from Myanmar. The worker reportedly weighed only 24kg (53lb) when she died from her injuries in the 2016 incident.
Prosecutors have called Gaiyathiri Murugayan's actions "evil and utterly inhumane". It is among a series of high-profile maid abuse cases in the wealthy city-state in recent years. Rights groups have raised concerns about how foreign domestic workers, many of whom come from neighbouring countries in Asia, have been treated.
On Tuesday, Ms Murugayan, 40, pleaded guilty in a Singapore court to 28 charges including culpable homicide against Piang Ngaih Don. If she is convicted, she could be jailed for life.
‘Utterly inhumane’: Singaporean admits to abusing, killing maid
A Singaporean woman has admitted to starving, assaulting and ultimately killing her domestic worker from Myanmar in what prosecutors called one of the worst cases of maid abuse in the city-state. The affluent financial hub is home to about 250,000 domestic workers who mostly come from poorer Asian countries, and stories of maltreatment are common.
But the abuse meted out against Piang Ngaih Don was particularly awful, with the helper stamped on, strangled, choked, battered with brooms, and burned with an iron. Gaiyathiri Murugayan, 40, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 28 charges including culpable homicide against the 24-year-old maid. She will be sentenced at a later date and could be jailed for life.
“That one human being would treat another in this evil and utterly inhumane manner is cause for the righteous anger of the court, and the law must come down with full force,” prosecutors said.
HOME decries “horrific, dehumanising, and abhorrent” abuse of Myanmar maid
A Singapore charity for helping migrant workers has expressed shock at the death of a domestic worker, abused by her employer. The abuse suffered by Myanmar maid Ms Piang Ngaih Don, 24, was “horrific, dehumanising, and abhorrent”, said the Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (HOME).
In a statement on Wednesday (Feb 24), the organisation wrote: “HOME regularly encounters domestic workers who are not allowed rest days or phones, particularly during the first few months of employment”. “Such isolating practices make domestic workers vulnerable to abuse and exploitation. HOME has advocated for domestic workers to be allowed to live outside their employers’ houses. A live-out option will make them less vulnerable to physical and sexual abuse, and help regulate their working hours”, it added.
HOME said: “Domestic workers are recognised by our criminal law as vulnerable victims,” Their abusers face enhanced punishments. However, by that time, the domestic worker would have already been subject to the abuse, with serious and often long-term impact on her physical and mental well-being. While accountability and punishment are important, we must do more to protect domestic workers, with strong legislation and pre-emptive measures.”
Singapore woman who fatally abused Myanmar domestic worker pleads guilty, faces life
Constantly angry with her foreign domestic worker for being slow or unhygienic and eating too much, Gaiyathiri Murugayan installed closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras in her Singapore flat to monitor the worker and her own young children. This proved to be her undoing, with the cameras capturing her repeatedly abusing Piang Ngaih Don, a 24-year-old Myanmar national, over nine months.
Piang was deprived of food and water, losing 15kg in the process. She weighed just 24kg when she died in July 2016. Gaiyathiri, 40, pleaded guilty to 28 charges in the High Court on Tuesday. These included culpable homicide not amounting to murder, wrongful restraint and causing hurt or grievous hurt to Piang. Justice See Kee Oon will consider another 87 similar charges for sentencing at a later date.
The prosecution, led by Deputy Chief Prosecutor Mohamed Faizal Mohamed Abdul Kadir, argued that the case was “especially heinous and especially horrific” enough to warrant life imprisonment. “This is a case where, simply put, words fail us. That one human being would treat another in this evil and utterly inhumane manner is cause for the righteous anger of the court,” it added.
Myanmar maid Piang Ngaih Don's death shows employer's ‘extreme cruelty’
Myanmar national Piang Ngaih Don. (PHOTO: Helping Hands for Migrant Workers, Singapore/Facebook)
The death of Myanmar maid Piang Ngaih Don in Singapore showed her employer's “extreme inhumanity” and “extreme cruelty”, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Thursday (25 February).
Speaking at a virtual doorstop alongside Manpower Minister Josephine Teo, Shanumugam said, “I’m sure I speak for many Singaporeans when I express our complete abhorrence at what happened.” His comments come after Gaiyathiri Murugayan, Piang’s employer, admitted in court on Tuesday to killing the 24-year-old maid from repeated choking. Gaiyathiri pleaded guilty to 28 charges involving culpable homicide, grievous hurt, hurt, wrongful restraint and criminal intimidation. The prosecution is pushing for a life jail sentence for Gaiyathiri.
Piang had 47 external injuries and 31 fresh scars all over her body through repeated abuse. She weighed just 24kg, having lost 38 per cent of her initial weight of 39kg at the time of her death. The multiple abuse incidents she had suffered included being burnt with heated iron, hit repeatedly, denied food, and others. “In fact, none of these words describe adequately what actually happened to her. She was starved and beaten to death. The bestiality of the conduct is shocking,” Shanmugam said.
Woman admits killing maid; starved her to 24kg and assaulted her almost daily in 'utterly inhumane' case
Gaiyathiri Murugaiyan. (Photo: Nisha Karyn)
Five months into her new maid's employment, a woman began abusing the domestic helper from Myanmar, punching and stamping on her and starving her until she was only 24kg.
In the days before the 24-year-old victim died of brain injury with severe blunt trauma to her neck, she was starved and tied to a window grille at night and assaulted if she tried to rummage for food from the dustbin.
Gaiyathiri Murugayan, 40, pleaded guilty on Tuesday (Feb 23) to 28 charges including culpable homicide, voluntarily causing grievous hurt by starvation, voluntarily causing hurt by a heated substance and wrongful restraint. Another 87 charges will be considered in sentencing. The prosecution is seeking life imprisonment - but the judge adjourned sentencing to a later date as he considers the case.
Husband of maid abuser is interdicted police officer, also facing charges
Gaiyathiri Murugayan (left) pleaded guilty to 28 charges that included culpable homicide not amounting to murder, wrongful restraint and causing hurt or grievous hurt to her domestic worker
Kevin Chelvam, the husband of Gaiyathiri Murugayan, who pleaded guilty on Tuesday (Feb 23) to violently abusing the couple’s 24-year-old domestic worker from Myanmar until she died, is a staff sergeant of police who has been suspended from service since Aug 8, 2016. Confirming this continued interdiction in a statement on Wednesday, the police also said: “He was charged in court on Aug 11, 2016 and faces multiple charges in connection with the case involving his domestic helper, Ms Piang Ngaih Don. As the court case is ongoing, we are unable to comment further.”
The five charges faced by Chelvam, 42, include voluntarily causing hurt to Piang — he lifted her off the ground by grabbing her hair — giving false information to a police investigator and removing evidence in the form of a closed-circuit television (CCTV) system. The police added that officers of the Singapore Police Force are expected to uphold the law and set a good example by maintaining high standards of discipline and integrity.
“The Singapore Police Force deals with officers who break the law severely, including charging them in court.”
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