A Singaporean couple who failed to provide enough food for their Filipina domestic worker were hit with longer jail terms on Friday by Singapore’s Supreme Court.
Chong Sui Foon, a 48-year-old housewife, had previously been jailed for three months, while her husband Lim Choon Hong, a freelance trader who is also 48, got three months in jail plus a S$10,000 (US$7,436) fine, The Straits Times reported.
The court appeared to take a dim view of the couple’s appeal – Chong’s jail term was increased to 10 months, while Lim’s punishment was also increased to 10 months in jail.
Read: Singapore couple jailed, fined for starving Filipino maid
Filipina Thelma Oyasan Gawidan, now 41, was given only two meals a day – mostly plain white bread or instant noodles, plus water to drink – for 15 months during her employment at The Boulevard Residence condominium in Cuscaden Walk between January 2013 and April 2014.
Chong did not allow Gawidan to eat other food at home and barred the maid from shopping for food for her own consumption.
The effect on her health was severe. Gawidan, who initially had a healthy body weight of 49 kilograms, lost almost 20kg to only 29.4kg and she stopped menstruating after February 2013, then her hair started falling out shortly after.
These kind of employers should be treated the same way they treated their helper for them to realize what they had done for 15 month ! Punyetang mga klase ng amo!
starve them for 15months also!!
Animal mga walang puso huwag din cla plamunin sa loob ng kolongan
Lifetime imprisonment should be given go them and give them 1 meal a day
Don’t allow them to eat so that they will know what is the feeling what they did to their helper…heartless human…
Evil employer go to heal
It is in the contract that you have to feed your maids eniugh fiod 3 times a day with 8hours sleep what is that they don’t understand if you cannot afford to feed them then don ‘t employed hiuse help you both deserve to be punished ven animals need food how much more human being.
Shame on U both! Cruel creature.????
Insane i can say. Let the helper work so hard No food. Heartless Freak. Im a Helper too but my kind and amazing employers provide everything i need.
????????????????????…so angry with this kind of person,if u dn’t know how to treat human better u hire ROBOT….
Such inhumane acts should not go unpunished. Harsher sentences should be accorded to them and be barred from recruiting help only to act in such cruel manners!