Woman hit maid

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Dec 16, 2009

Woman hit maid

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A district court heard that Peck had been abusing Ms Lin, 24, since Nov 15 last year. -- PHOTO: SPH

<!-- story content : start --> ANGRY at her maid for cutting broccoli wrongly, a housewife slammed a kettle against the Myanmar woman's arm, splashing warm water on her face. The maid told her agent, who reported it to the police the next day. Investigations then revealed 14 other occasions when Peck Choon Khim, 41, ill-treated Ms Moe Thandar Lin. Peck pleaded guilty on Wednesday and will be sentenced on Jan 14. A district court heard that Peck had been abusing Ms Lin, 24, since Nov 15 last year. On that evening, she hit the maid's palm with a spatula for taking too long to find it. The abuse then grew worse. On Feb 20, Peck used a cane to hit Ms Lin's ankle for not wiping spilled water off the baby's dining table. Four days later, she punched her arm for warming up the wrong curry for dinner. Peck, whose children are 16 months and three years, could be jailed up to three years and fined up to $7,500 on each of the four charges.

 

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See her face, you know what type of women she is.

 

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Jailed for mistreating maid

Singapore
Mar 19, 2010

Jailed for mistreating maid

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Peck Choon Khim hired a maid in 2008 to help take care of her two adopted children, she started hitting the Myanmar national. -- ST PHOTO: WONG KWAI CHOW

<!-- story content : start --> SOON after Peck Choon Khim hired a maid in 2008 to help take care of her two adopted children, she started hitting the Myanmar national. The abuse continued for the next five months and on Friday, Peck, 41, was sentenced to four months' jail. A district court heard she had mistreated Ms Moe Thandar Lin, on 15 occasions from November 2008. Ms Lin only complained to her agent, after Peck slammed a kettle of hot water against her left arm on March 15 last year. The agent called the police who found the list of all the incidents listed in the maid's diary.

At the last hearing in January, Peck's lawyer Lim Kim Hong asked the court to be lenient to her client as the maid had been defiant and disrespectful from the very start. The maid was also no help in taking care of the children, aged 18 months and three years. All the more reason for Peck to get a new maid, said District Judge Ronald Gwee. He added: 'The correct thing to do is to terminate her employment but in this case, there were repeated occasions of abuse. Physical punishment is not allowed. It's a line no employer should cross.' The maximum sentence is a jail term of three years and a $7,500 fine on each of the four charges.