Maid attempts to escape from employer
Shin Min Daily News - 5 hrs 15 mins ago
A maid tried to escape from her employer by climbing down an eighth floor flat.
The incident happened at about 6am yesterday at Blk 163, Bedok North Road.
A maid was spotted standing at a seventh floor window ledge by a cleaner who had happened to look up.
The apparently stranded maid had used a makeshift rope tied together with bedsheets and clothing, in an attempt to escape from her employer's unit on the eighth floor.
Hanging at the end of the long rope was a black luggage bag that weighed down the rope and dangling almost to the ground floor.
The cleaner who spotted the maid signaled for the maid to stay where she was while he went to get help. Understanding her predicament, the maid remained stock still on the 20cm-wide window ledge.
An eyewitness, Mr Ho (51, construction manager) told reporters that he was in the area when a man rushed over to borrow his mobile phone to call the police.
Mr Ho followed the man back to the scene and witnessed the maid standing at the window ledge.
"I think she could have lost confidence while she was climbing, or realised that the rope could not take her weight," Mr Ho surmised.
The police arrived and knocked on the door of seventh floor resident Mdm Su (65, housewife), who was asleep at the time. She got a shock when policemen told her that a maid was standing at her window ledge.
The policemen had to ask the maid to squat down at the window ledge before they could open the windows. They then pulled the maid in, afterwhich the maid broke down and sobbed.
The maid explained that she had tried to escape after she was slapped by her employer. The maid's employer however, denied doing so.
Source: Shin Min Daily News, 29 October 2011.
Shin Min Daily News - 5 hrs 15 mins ago
A maid tried to escape from her employer by climbing down an eighth floor flat.
The incident happened at about 6am yesterday at Blk 163, Bedok North Road.
A maid was spotted standing at a seventh floor window ledge by a cleaner who had happened to look up.
The apparently stranded maid had used a makeshift rope tied together with bedsheets and clothing, in an attempt to escape from her employer's unit on the eighth floor.
Hanging at the end of the long rope was a black luggage bag that weighed down the rope and dangling almost to the ground floor.
The cleaner who spotted the maid signaled for the maid to stay where she was while he went to get help. Understanding her predicament, the maid remained stock still on the 20cm-wide window ledge.
An eyewitness, Mr Ho (51, construction manager) told reporters that he was in the area when a man rushed over to borrow his mobile phone to call the police.
Mr Ho followed the man back to the scene and witnessed the maid standing at the window ledge.
"I think she could have lost confidence while she was climbing, or realised that the rope could not take her weight," Mr Ho surmised.
The police arrived and knocked on the door of seventh floor resident Mdm Su (65, housewife), who was asleep at the time. She got a shock when policemen told her that a maid was standing at her window ledge.
The policemen had to ask the maid to squat down at the window ledge before they could open the windows. They then pulled the maid in, afterwhich the maid broke down and sobbed.
The maid explained that she had tried to escape after she was slapped by her employer. The maid's employer however, denied doing so.
Source: Shin Min Daily News, 29 October 2011.
