A 45-year-old woman who confined and physically abused her Filipina domestic helper, has had her jail term tripled to 24 weeks as prosecutors won in an appeal case at Singapore’s High Court last Friday.
At the end of 2011, Jonna Memeje Muegue, now 28, started working for Chua Siew Peng and her 76-year-old mother, Lum Wai Lui, in an apartment at Maplewoods on Bukit Timah Road that belonged to Chua’s younger sister, Kathleen Chua Siew Wei, Lianhe Zaobao reports.
Muegue was physically abused by the Chua sisters and Lum for 11 months and was not allowed to take leave, talk to outsiders or make any phone calls during the period.
On October 29, 2012, Lum punched and slapped Muegue as she ate food that was not meant for her. Lum also slammed the maid’s head against the wall and poured bleach on her, while Chua Siew Peng pulled her hair and slapped her repeatedly.
The following day, Muegue escaped the apartment by climbing out of a window but fractured her feet when she landed on a roof one floor below, The Straits Times reports.
In February 2016, Lum was given 21 months’ probation, instead of imprisonment, as she was diagnosed with schizophrenia.
In May of last year, Chua Siew Peng was jailed for eight weeks after she was found guilty on one count of wrongful confinement and one count of causing hurt to the maid. Both Chua and the prosecutor appealed to the High Court.
On Friday, Justice Chan Seng Onn dismissed Chua’s appeal and allowed the prosecution’s appeal.
Why wasnt Chua Siew Wei charged and sentenced???
Please inform your embassy what are they doing.
Pl give your feedback to MOM. I did. Maid agency should be responsible too.
Dapat bitayin na yang mga stupidong singaporean na employer na yan di sapat sa kanila ang makulong lang ugaling hayup cla …
Via Basco.. correct…Di ko Alam Kung anong problem sa Comment ko eh.. mas concern pa sila sa English ko kesa dun sa kabayan na namistreatment..
well..english is just a language.not a measure of intelligence…as long u can get what is her point of view… nothing matters..good day all..
So short punishment is not enough
Maid agency should be summoned to court too. They are supposed to look into the maid’s welfare at all times. Afterall the maid paid the agency in order to get a job here. Please check months of salary deduction. Phillipine embassy do the right thing.
Ay life grabe basta naintindihan go Lang kayo,tagalogin nyo nalang para maintindihan,ang hirap sa mga commenters patalinohan…lol
Employers… Àlways bare on your midst HUMANITY
dami nyung alam
for 11 months you allowed these people abuse you?wow! you’re one of the legend then. �
Charito Bracino Ocenar you corrected my sentence, I will have to correct you back.. from made to Maid.. thank you..
No say "Also" in your sentence bcoz that is the facts we arw Human same as them… make straight to make them understand being a Worker ,working with them as Made does not make u less human..
I pray The Maid is ok after the ordeal.
Why they all not scare going to jail? So often read the news about employer abuse they maid .
Kulang na parusa un .grave eh
correct.my lady boss is singaporean..she said its true that they always says employer is mentally ill..but not true
Always employer sick or what or maybe excuse for not getting heavier punishment
MAY MENTALLY ILL SOME OTHER SINGAPOREANS EMPLOYER. DAPAT MAKULING YAN.