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SINGAPORE — Over half a year, a couple took out their anger and frustration on their maid, pinching her ears, rubbing soiled diapers in her face and making her drink water from a toilet bowl.
When the 33-year-old Indonesian maid finally fled from the abuse, she was found with likely permanent damage to her ears in the form of cauliflower ears and impaired hearing.
The couple who assaulted her are wife Ooi Wei Voen, a Singapore permanent resident and Malaysian, and Ooi's Singaporean husband Pang Chen Yong. Both are 37 years old and are IT engineers.
Each had suffered from a mental disorder during the time of offences, their defence lawyer told the court. They have two children, a son aged two and a girl who is nine months old.
Ooi was sentenced to 20 months' jail, while Pang was given four months’ jail on Monday (30 August). She pleaded guilty to one count of voluntarily causing hurt with a weapon, three counts of voluntarily causing hurt, with another six charges related to violence caused to the maid taken into consideration for her sentencing.
Pang pleaded guilty to three out of five counts of voluntarily causing hurt, with the remaining considered for sentencing.
Ooi hired the maid in April 2017. The maid, who was in Singapore for the first time, was tasked to care for the couple’s baby daughter in addition to cooking, cleaning, and other household chores in their Anchorvale flat. The victim would start work at 6.30am daily and ended only at 1am.
She would be left with the couple’s baby for most of the day, but Ooi would observe the maid’s movements through CCTV cameras and return to the unit in the day to check on her.
The helper did not have a phone. When the family brought her out on outings, the maid would be made to wear a tudung in order to hide her injuries. She was also forbidden to do laundry or throw trash as her injuries might be spotted by neighbours.
Whenever the helper made a mistake, the couple compelled her to record the mistakes and threatened to deduct her salary.
More at https://sg.news.yahoo.com/couple-deformed-maid-ear-rubbed-faeces-on-face-101921379.html
When the 33-year-old Indonesian maid finally fled from the abuse, she was found with likely permanent damage to her ears in the form of cauliflower ears and impaired hearing.
The couple who assaulted her are wife Ooi Wei Voen, a Singapore permanent resident and Malaysian, and Ooi's Singaporean husband Pang Chen Yong. Both are 37 years old and are IT engineers.
Each had suffered from a mental disorder during the time of offences, their defence lawyer told the court. They have two children, a son aged two and a girl who is nine months old.
Ooi was sentenced to 20 months' jail, while Pang was given four months’ jail on Monday (30 August). She pleaded guilty to one count of voluntarily causing hurt with a weapon, three counts of voluntarily causing hurt, with another six charges related to violence caused to the maid taken into consideration for her sentencing.
Pang pleaded guilty to three out of five counts of voluntarily causing hurt, with the remaining considered for sentencing.
Ooi hired the maid in April 2017. The maid, who was in Singapore for the first time, was tasked to care for the couple’s baby daughter in addition to cooking, cleaning, and other household chores in their Anchorvale flat. The victim would start work at 6.30am daily and ended only at 1am.
She would be left with the couple’s baby for most of the day, but Ooi would observe the maid’s movements through CCTV cameras and return to the unit in the day to check on her.
The helper did not have a phone. When the family brought her out on outings, the maid would be made to wear a tudung in order to hide her injuries. She was also forbidden to do laundry or throw trash as her injuries might be spotted by neighbours.
Whenever the helper made a mistake, the couple compelled her to record the mistakes and threatened to deduct her salary.
More at https://sg.news.yahoo.com/couple-deformed-maid-ear-rubbed-faeces-on-face-101921379.html