Employer: I felt my head burning

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Employer: I felt my head burning
After firing her, S'pore family finds bleach in shampoo and contact len solution

By Ho Lian-Yi
June 03, 2010

She was in the shower when she felt her head burning and the pungent smell of chlorine filling her nose.

It turned out someone had poured bleach into her shampoo and conditioner.

The culprit, she later found out, was her former maid, whom she had decided to send back to the agency the day before.

The maid, a 26-year-old Myanmar national, had been with the family for four months.

Her employer, a 45-year-old businesswoman who wanted to be known only as Mrs Tan,was unhappy with the maid's performance.

What she did not expect was that the maid would get back at the family by putting bleach into all the bottles of shampoo and conditioner in the three bathrooms of the family’s penthouse unit in a Woodlands condominium.

The maid even allegedly poured bleach into Mrs Tan's youngest daughter's contact lens solution.

 

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By Ho Lian-yi
SHE was in the shower when she felt her head burning and the pungent smell of chlorine filling her nose. It turned out someone had poured bleach into her shampoo and conditioner. The culprit, she later found out, was her former maid, whom she had decided to send back to the agency the day before.

The maid, a 26-year-old Myanmar national, had been with the family for four months. Her employer, a 45-year-old businesswoman who wanted to be known only as Mrs Tan,was unhappy with the maid's performance. What she did not expect was that the maid would get back at the family by putting bleach into all the bottles of shampoo and conditioner in the three bathrooms of the family's penthouse unit in a Woodlands condominium.
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A maid tried to get back at the family by putting bleach into all the bottles of shampoo and conditioner in the three bathrooms of the family's penthouse unit in a Woodlands condominium. The maid even allegedly poured bleach into her employer's youngest daughter's contact lens solution.​

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The maid, a 26-year-old Myanmar national, had been with the family for four months. Her employer, a 45-year-old businesswoman who wanted to be known only as Mrs Tan, was unhappy with the maid's performance.​

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When she confronted the maid at the agency the next day, she said the latter admitted what she had done.​

 

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But the maid claimed "she did not know the solution was for the eyes".

Luckily, the alert teenager discovered it before she put the lens into her eyes. She sensed something amiss when she smelled the solution.​

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Mrs Tan said: "What if my daughter had put on the contact lens? She could have gone blind.
"If you look at the maid, you will never think she is capable of this."​

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Mrs Tan lives with her husband, and her two daughters, aged 21 and 18. Her older daughter's boyfriend, Mr Neo, 21, a civil servant, lives with them.

Here, Mr Neo is holding a curtain with holes that were allegedly made by the maid.​

 

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Mr Neo also had to search for his belt and work pass which were found hidden under a pile of mats.

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The maid's employer Mrs Tan found that some of the family's clothes had become discoloured after they were left in a tub of bleach.



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