A Singapore court found a 56-year-old woman guilty of 12 criminal charges on Friday after she used hammer and other weapons to attack her Indonesian domestic worker between June and December 2012, causing permanent disfiguration of the victim.
Zariah Mohd Ali had faced 28 charges of voluntarily causing grievous harm to her 37-year-old domestic worker named Khanifah, who hailed from Indramayu regency in West Java, as well as two other charges under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act, Lianhe Wanbao reported.
She was found guilty of 12 charges, including hitting Khanifah’s mouth and head with a hammer, striking her left ear with a bamboo pole, stabbing her left shoulder with a pair of scissors and forcefully pushing her left little finger.
Her 58-year-old husband, Mohamad Dahlan, was also convicted of hitting Khanifah’s head with the cover of a frying pan.
Zariah, who has suffered a stroke and is weak on her left side, can still take care of herself and go to work by taxi.
Zariah started to scold and hit her domestic worker after Khanifah began working for her in the couple’s Housing Development Board home on Woodlands Street. When Zariah got angry, she sometimes threw knives at the maid or sprayed detergent in her eyes, Shin Min Daily reported.
Khanifah was twice hit in the mouth with a hammer, with two of her teeth broken and two others becoming detached. She was once hit by a hammer on the back of her head, but was only given a sanitary pad to stop the bleeding.
When Khanifah went shopping with her employer’s daughter, she was ordered to wear long sleeves to cover her bruises. She was made to hide in a toilet during her employer’s gatherings with friends. She was unable to contact her family as her phone was locked up by her employer.
In December 2012, the employment agency was made aware of Khanifah’s case. Zariah and her husband agreed to compensate the domestic worker with S$15,580 (US$11,450) but only paid S$2,000.
Khanifah was then sent back to her home country and was hospitalized for 15 days. She suffered permanent disfiguration of different parts of her body.
The couple will be sentenced on November 23.
good for them they are inhuman????????????
Inhuman????????????
They are monsters..kung cla kaya pukpukin ng hammer…kawawa naman ang indonesia…
Linda Serviano oo nga te grabe matatanda na demonyo pa
Such inhumane torture….i notice there has been many cases involving Singaporean employers ill treating their maids
Too inhumane. It may be better to work for dogs, than human behaving worst than animals.
Your all Muslims..but your heart like animals…I’m notice Singapore an Chinese more care to the helper than the Malay people… most likely Malay people always bully the helper..one day I go restaurant with my boss the Malay family bring the helper go dinner but never give the helper food…they ask the helper to stand up beside the kids and watching they eating..I see her so sad….my boss also say how come they do that to the helper..
Sentence shd include being hit with hammer n poked with scissors n slicing off their ears. What brutal torture they inflicted on their poor maid.
Ppl like this dont deserve to live…..just torture them to death.
this kind of people with no mercy to a person serving them must be rotten in jail until their last breath????
If helper has been disfigured , she deserves higher compensation , as she is not able to work anymore..THESE EMPLOYERS DESERVE A STIFF PUNISHMENT DESPITE THEIR AGES.. LET THEM FEEL THE PAIN THE HELPER HAD SUFFERED.. WHY EMPLOY A HELPER IF YOU DONT LIKE ANOTHER PEOPLE IN THE HOUSE? Why employ if you cannot feed? Why employ if you cannot afford to pay salary? You are not happy with your helper just return to their agency DO NOT TORTURE YOUR HELPER.. Helpers ARE ALSO HUMAN BEING, willing to accept this kind of job just to earn for daily living or family’s welfare back home.. REVERSE BACK THE SITUATION, if you are in the helpers’s part and you are treated that way , how do you feel? Treat others the way you wanted to be treated to..
Pls make sure this couple triple or quadruple compensation + compound interest to the poor lady.
I suppose the Singapore employer was going thru menopause ….? Isn’t that the excuse they use? I lived in Singapore for years, this type of report was not unusual ..
They are devik
Devil employer
you guys dont deserve to live.
RECLUSION PERPETUA is good for them????????????
You obviously haven’t read up much. There were cases where non-muslims mistreated, or even murdered domestic workers. Don’t blame this case on all muslims.
Some employers treat thier maids as family members;but in this case;this is too much! May Good God lighten up thier darken hearts and souls!
they should bare all the cost for the maids expences and pay the maid ..they should be fined and jailed too..they are worst than animals
I sincerely hope the authority will severely punish these inhuman creatures. Hope the victim will also be well compensated for her suffering taking into account of her disfigurement.
Inhuman and most misarable couple
Devil couple….
Good for them! Dapat sa inyo putulan ng ulo????????????????
why don’t you guys try to do housework like cleaning from ceiling to floor at the same time do laundry, cooking and ironing w/o food in your stomach? Maybe you could relate to your maid’s suffering after that
Face the consequences of your wrong actions..you wasted your opportunity to have a better future, those thousands are nothing compares to what you are about suffer in a foreign land and in your home country.
Ubay ubay pud mga buang dri.kalooy pud s indonesian.
Kawawa nman yung helper.
So inhumane.
They deserved to be punished harshly to send a clear message to other employers who have been mistreating their helpers or domestic maids.
Grabe naman kawawa supper evil doing kung di niya kaya ang trabaho at di siya makasunod sa gusto nila di ebalik nila sa agency di ganiyan subra.i know Indonesian they cannot talk alot English but they very patient but they are friendly also.so dapat sa employer makulong at magbayad sila .
At least caning. This is Singapore after all
bitayiN na mga yAn
Wear so religiously but behave like evil toward poor domestic helper
If im there maid i will slash there neck!this people don’t deserve to live!!
Whether u r Muslim or non muslim , if u conduct any evil acts toward fellow human being the law of the Country will punished u good.
Majikan kurang ajar bukan manusia dia tu☻
Bloody bustard inhuman being never ever claims tht you are MUSLIM
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What make them think they can treat any human being cruelly ???? Hope they will be send to jail and revived canning- karma is a b!?$h ????????????
The cruelest ever should receive life sentence in jail
My God. They were so cruel, inhumane. Good for them
bastard couple
Hope some "good humans" in jail will do the same to this bastard and bitch.
Oh my God, this couple must send to jail for abusing their maid…
Such evil employers..how could they do this to another human being? A maid is an employee..she should be given the same respect and dignity of any employee working In a office…really heartless people
Lock them up and throw away the key
The couple deserved long jail term!
Hayyyyy kwwa nman!kya minsan d rin ntin masisi na pnptay nlng nla mga amo nla kc pag dka lmaban kaw dn ang mapatay nla..lesson n yan s mga among sadista!
To hell with this couple….serves u right.demons.????????????
Even their life is not enough to pay their sins..severe punishment will serve you after your death …u will live in the hell and suffered most…insha allah
Bear.