An elderly woman was arrested by police on Thursday night after a video surfaced on social media showing her slapping and threatening to kill her Indonesian domestic worker.
The 79-year-old employer surnamed Pang lives in Grand View Garden in Wong Tai Sin in Kowloon, Apple Daily reported, adding that her son works in China and only visits Pang once a week.
Pang’s son hired the 35-year-old Indonesian last year to take care of her.
The domestic worker told Apple Daily that she was attacked – allegedly for the third time – on Wednesday. She had told Pang’s son his mother had assaulted her but he allegedly asked her to forgive Pang.
But Oriental Daily said Pang’s son did not believe the previous assaults had occurred, so the domestic worker wanted evidence, which led to the maid taking the live streaming video.
The domestic worker had asked for assistance from the Indonesian Consulate General in Hong Kong and relevant domestic worker groups.
In the 12-minute Facebook Live video, the employer and the domestic worker can be heard having a conservation in Cantonese.
Early in the video the helper is heard saying, “You always come in like this for small things.” Then, the employer is heard asking the worker, “Did I treat you very bad? You tell me, you ask your conscience.”
The domestic worker rejected this, saying she was aggravated by small things.
Then the employer blamed the maid for making her lose her temper, saying she had never hired a domestic worker as bad as her.
At one point, the worker speaks in Indonesian and the employer asks, “Why don’t you speak Cantonese? Why are you speaking this other language? I don’t understand….What are you saying about me? You’re so evil…. speak my language.. use Chinese.
“No wonder some people hit their maids, I’ve never had anyone make me as angry as you do.”
The employer is then seen smacking the helper in the face, mouth and thighs, then threatens to kill the Indonesian.
The worker replies in Cantonese, “Kill me then.”
According to Time News International, the worker is heard repeatedly saying in Bahasa (Indonesian): “Oh God, I’m being smacked. I don’t accept her speaking that way to me.”
At one point, she quietly calls her employer a “dog” in her native tongue as she is being beaten.
Police arrested the employer for allegedly common assault and criminal intimidation.
The employer was released on bail pending further investigation by police from Wong Tai Sin station.
It’s been a years now since I 1st in work in Hong Kong.i myself also experience that kind of treatment of my employers mother since we had luck of communication barriers specially speaking cantonese as i really cant understand.its so difficult at 1st because she’s hurting me that sometimes scratch any of my body parts or even telling that I’m stealing her money or jewellery even worse shouting screaming in the window help help my maid is hurting me while she was in bed with her feet on the window.or sometimes when we in the mall and she meet her friends and tell them I’m no used to her and she never thinks while she was talking with her friends she never thinks I never eat anything for breakfast see how rude she was and when she’s angry she really don’t care she will shout and hurt me in public
it’s good to make all employer’s know .
Marie Eugenie Gimena yah u right..
Jimmyboy G. Vargas i dont think so, maybe that woman doesn’t know the rules and regulations upon hiring a maid coz the contrct was done and sign by her son. She was not inform enought about the laws. Hope that in this case it will be a lesson for those employer has a bad temper. If they dont want to be in jail they will behave hehehe
Give lesson of what she has done to her helper. so that other employer who did it to their maid stop by doing so.
Wait for your dying hour and be Merciful
She deserves it…
Fight for the rights..
Good for you if you are in jail,old fool
Plz dnt for give her let she go to jail
It is a direct assault,verbal abuse and graved threats and evidence is so clear.their is no need for further investigations.justice must be serve
The old woman reminds me of that horrible woman in Misery, about a woman kidnapping a writer and torturing him.
I hope the woman can get enough compensation
She treated her helper as animal so, she should be treated as an animal. Despite her age, instead of showing humanitarian aspct to her helper, her smartness is deteriorating. she is dangerous to others.
ohh,c’mon Mr.Tamu,she did it 2x and this is the 3rd time,how if this old woman kill her for the 4th times?there is no forgiveness for this kind of person,and she is very strong to slapped and smacked her helper..how could you say she is old?she deserved to be in jail.
dont 4give please
Justice prevail…im also work in hongkong and also maltreated but GOD is good all the time!!!
A lot of old people here in Hongkong are like this old witch so mean and so rude i wish the maid will get justice.
U are right sir,Indonesian can speak Cantonese but she still spoke bahasa with the old woman which make her angry
The old woman must pay the necessary fine and damages. Court will decide. Real evidence was of a felony there already. What else?
crazy old woman,
I can relate how the employer feel, actually she can simply terminate this maid service may b she wanted to save agency cost. My workplace worse, she does the cleaning work just like no clean at all, she did very good job to the managers eyes can c and carry deir favour, so top managenent like her and blinded by her acting, poor us office staff company got office cleaner but we have to do her jobs on behalf unwise management we have.