This is just cruel!
A Singaporean couple who was sentenced to jail two years back (2017) for abusing their maid, Fitriyah has yet again been found guilty for abusing their other maid, Moe Moe Than.
The Star reported that the sales manager, Chia Yun Ling was found guilty for six offences under the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act.
The district Judge Olivia Low also declared that the mother of three was guilty of eight assault charges and one count of being verbally abusive to the poor maid.
Source: The Straits Times
In case you’re wondering, here are some of the abuses which were endured by Moe:
- She had a funnel put into her mouth and Chia forced a mixture of rice and sugar down Moe’s throat because Moe complained that she did not have enough food
- Moe was ordered to eat her own vomit after she threw up
- Chia caned Moe and threatened to hire an assassin to murder her family in Myanmar
- She forced Moe to do her chores in bra and short pants once. Wtf?
- One time, Chia asked Moe to remove her shorts and underpants to cane her because some plastic boxes in a study room were dusty
- Chia’s husband, Tay has also abused Moe by caning and kicking her while she was in a “push-up position”
- He also asked Moe and Fitriyah to slap each other after he suspected that they have removed a piece of cloth from the altar table without his permission. They were also forced to worship in front of the altar table for 100 times!
If you didn’t know, Moe Moe Than started working with the couple on 8 January 2012 and during her testimony, she revealed that she was initially fed rice and cabbage. After that, Moe was later fed only plain rice and water. The judge was quoted as saying,
“She claimed that she was hungry enough to even eat leftover banana skin from the dustbin… Fitriyah confirmed that Moe Moe Than was subsequently only given white rice, and the rice was sometimes mixed with sugar.”
Why are they so heartless?
Source: Jeraldine
However, Moe’s sufferings were revealed after she went back to Myanmar in 2012 and told her agent about the horrid couple. Following that, Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower was enlightened about the abuse and they arranged for her return a month later.
Then, Moe was examined at Khoo Teck Puat Hospital, Singapore and they found that she has injuries which included scars on her left forearm and right wrist.
As for Tay and Chia, they have been given a bail of SGD15,000 (approx RM45,000) each and they are expected to be sentenced on 18 March 2019. We have to keep our eyes peeled for more updates on this case.
Source: TODAY Online
Well, we hope that justice will be served in this case because no one human deserves to be abused like Moe. It’s cruel and most certainly, inhumane!
Also read: Mother Seeks Justice for Daughter Who Worked as Maid & Was Tortured to Death in M’sia
