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.
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.
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
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!
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.
RECLUSION PERPETUA is good for them????????????
you guys dont deserve to live.
Devil employer
They are devik
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 ..
Pls make sure this couple triple or quadruple compensation + compound interest to the poor lady.
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..
this kind of people with no mercy to a person serving them must be rotten in jail until their last breath????
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.
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..
Too inhumane. It may be better to work for dogs, than human behaving worst than animals.
Such inhumane torture….i notice there has been many cases involving Singaporean employers ill treating their maids
Linda Serviano oo nga te grabe matatanda na demonyo pa
They are monsters..kung cla kaya pukpukin ng hammer…kawawa naman ang indonesia…
Inhuman????????????
good for them they are inhuman????????????