Maid jailed 3 months for ill-treating toddler

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Maid jailed 3 months for ill-treating toddler

Published on Apr 10, 2012
By Khushwant Singh

The video footage was of a maid feeding a child but it had flashes of sudden violence that startled a district court on Tuesday. There was the scene of Myanmar maid Su Su Hlaing, 31, flinging a knife onto a sofa that was next to the four-year-old girl. She later pointed its 20cm blade at the frightened toddler.

Hlaing was jailed three months. She had pleaded guilty to committing criminal intimidation by alarming the child with the knife.

Another charge of slapping and pulling the hair of the toddler was taken into consideration by District Judge Siva Shanmugam when sentencing her.

Assistant Public Prosecutor Jason Chua told the court that the mother became suspicious when her four-year-old daughter would cry when she left for work in the morning, saying that she did not want the maid to feed her. She and her husband then bought a spy camera and installed it in the living room of their Punggol flat on Feb 9.

Read the full story in Tuesday's edition of The Straits Times.

 

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Maid threatened four-year-old child with a knife

Published on Apr 11, 2012

Hlaing, who also slapped the girl and pulled her hair, was sentenced to three months in jail. -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE POLICE FORCE

By Khushwant Singh & Jalelah Abu Baker

A maid was seen pointing a 20cm blade at a frightened child in video footage played in court on Tuesday.

Myanmar national Su Su Hlaing was also pictured flinging the knife onto a sofa next to the four-year-old girl.

The violent footage was recorded by the child's parents, who installed a spy camera in their living room after becoming suspicious.

On Tuesday, 31-year-old Hlaing was sentenced to three months in jail for criminal intimidation. The court heard she also slapped the child and pulled her hair.

Read the full story in Wednesday's edition of The Straits Times.